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centuries before they were confirmed at Trent: but do not la bour, as the Cardinal inconfiftently did, to re-establish thofe corruptions again in that part of Chrift's church which has difcharged itself of them. Learn from him to reconcile St. Paul with St. James, and fee the neceffity of joining faith and works: but endeavour not with him, to burn thofe who wish to preserve them as infeparable as the fruit and the tree, knowing, that the fruit cannot be produced without the tree, nor can the tree be good that produces no fruit. And by forfaking acknowledged corruptions, and paying a due obedience to your provincial governours, endeavour to keep the unity of the faith, in the bond of . peace.

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But, if neither the natural regard which all men have for their country, the allegiance due to your Prince by the laws of God and of your country, nor the obedience required to your fpiritual governours by the apoftolical rules and ancient canons, have any influence upon you, what is there particular in the prefent crifis to provoke or tempt this fo extraordinary an effort of Popifh zeal? provocation there can be none on the part of your governours; you yourfelf acknowledge the equity and moderation of the times. One would fufpect there was fomething remarkably favourable to your caufe at this juncture, which makes fuch a preparatory incitement expedient. This may be from the late great increafe of your church in this kingdom: For doubtless it has increased, though I am perfuaded lefs than its Partizans boaft, and fome good perfons fear, and fome illmeaning ones pretend; which increase may be owing partly to an indolent inattention, but certainly nothing worse, in fome of us of the clergy, and yet not in many of them: but in a much greater degree to the covert methods, in which artful emiffaries proceed; engaging fimple and ignorant perfons, beyond retreat, by falfe affertions and fophiftical arguments, by promifes and bribes, before their minifters have any knowlege of the attempt. In the large parishes of London and Westminster such knowlege is peculiarly difficult to procure. And further in those great citics, it may be apprehended, that much of the evil is owing to the imprudence of feme of the upper fort, in committing the care of themselves and their households to foreign fervants of that church, who will not lay out their masters money but with perfons of their own perfuafion; and take all other opportunities, of which they have many, for bringing over converts to it. Hence the great number of converts which were boafted of in the late rebellion; but a much greater pro-' grefs in this work may be jufly apprehended by the reinforcement of labourers in it furnifhed, or likely to be furnished, by a fociety fo dangerous to civil government, that the Princes of,

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Europe, in their own communion, are banishing them from their feveral ftates; and we, it is imagined, not fo prudently connected and attentive to our own interefts as they are, fhall give them fhelter in ours."

Here Mr. Ridley enters on a brief view of the ftrange origin and deep-laid policy of the Jefuitic fociety, the favourite fociety of Mr. Phillips; and then finally takes leave of his antagonist, in the following terms. Whatever your reafons may be, for thus extolling the Jefuits, or what thanks foeyer your Popish fuperiors may give you for this wanton difturbance of your country, which permits you and your affociates to live in peace amongst them, we acknowlege the goodness of the divine permiffion, in thus fuffering you to awaken us from a forgetfulness of thofe corruptions and that tyranny from which he has thrice delivered us. Security is often fatal, and your 'performance is like the alarm of the rattle-fnake, which puts the paffenger on his guard. We might forget the controverfy were we not, by thete efforts, called upon to Review it. God permits these fkirmishes to exercife us, left we contract an indolence that might deftroy us. As the idolatrous nations were not to be entirely confumed by the Ifraelites, left the beafts of the field fhould increafe upon them. When like attacks repeted call for a like defence, it would be more nice than wife to neglect ufing the old weapons, only because they have been already fuccefsful. If thofe, which your unprovoked attack upon our conftitution in church and state has obliged me to draw forth in defence of both, convince you, that the bishop of Rome has no jurifdiction in this realm from fcripture; that we, holding the form of found words commanded by Chrift, and delivered by the Apoftles, under apoftolical difcipline, are members of the true church, however others may cut themselves off from our communion: and that the additional articles in the creed of Pope Pius are novelties, unknown to the firft ages of Chriftianity, and which the council of Trent had no authority to impose on a church unwilling to receive them; you will then fee your obligation to Jubmit yourself to the King as fupreme, and to abey the fpiritual governours of your national church, who have the rule over you. One of us must be guilty of schiẩm: and though the infirmities of fallible men fhould make us mutually bear with one another, yet it behoves each of us, for his own Lake, to avoid the punishment of fchifm, by a careful avoiding the guilt of it. This I have confcientiously endeavoured to do on my part, knowing how much it concerns me: I hope you will take as much honeft pains on yours. And if we still continue to think differently, be you careful not to behave feditiously, and God pardon the involuntary errors of either!'

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Such of our Readers as are defirous of a farther acquaintance with Mr. Ridley's literary productions, are referred to our account of his life of that noble Martyr, Dr. Nicholas Ridley, the Proteftant bishop of London, burnt for his religion in the bigot and bloody reign of Queen Mary---begun in our Review Vol. XXIX, and finished in Vol. XXX.

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MONTHLY CATALOGUE, For DECEMBER, 1765.

RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL.

Art. 10. Practical Chriftianity, illustrated in Nine Tracts, on various Subjects: namely,-The Neceffity of being acquainted with our fallen State - A familiar Introduction to the Knowlege of our felves; -Helps to Self-examination ;-Rules for promoting Re ligious Converfation among Chriftians --A familiar Catechifm or the Operations of the Holy Spirit illuftrated and proved ;-Of Conviction of Sin-An Examination for the Lord's Supper ; —A Letter on the first Queftion in the Office for the ordaining of Dea cons ;-A Funeral Sermon on a young Man drowned. By Samuel Walker, A. B. late Curate of Truro, in Cornwall. 3s. Dilly.

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LL thefe tracts, except one, were printed feparately in the Author's lifetime; and fome of them, as the addrefs to the reader informs us, paffed through feveral editions. They are now, fays the Editor, collected into a pocket-volume, in order to preferve them from being loft, and to render them the more ufeful to awaken and convince finners, and to lead them, by a true faith, to our Lord Jefus Chrift, the only Saviour and Redeemer, by whofe blood and righteousness alone they can be accepted with God,'- We have already given our Readers fufficient fpecimens of this Writer's principles and manner of treating religious fubjects;-fee our accounts of his fermons entitled The Chriftian, REV. Vol. 13:-of his Familiar Introduction to the Knowlege of ourselves, Vol. 26; and of his Fifty-two Sermons, Vol. 29.

Art. 11. Letters on the Fall and Reftoration of Mankind. Addreffed to all the ferious Part of every Denomination. By Stephen Penny, Accomptant. 8vo. 4d. Briftol, printed by Farley, and fold by Baldwin in London.

Mr. Penny is alarmed and concerned for the fafety of orthodox Chrif tianity, which he thinks will be in fome danger from the new translation of the New Teftament which is advertised to be in the prefs, and fpeedily to be published, by the celebrated Mr. Harwood.' He is alfo much ehended at the pamphlet published by Geo, Williams, the Glocefter

fhire footman, entitled, An Attempt to restore the Supreme Worship, &c. To obviate, in fome degree, the apprehended ill effects of this unpublished book, and this re-publifhed pamphlet, Mr. Penny has given us his own peculiar fancies relating to the fall, the redemption, the trinity, &c. which he first printed in a weekly news-paper, and has now collected into a pamphlet, with fome additions.

* In a fecond edition, with a preface, which this Writer supposes to have been written by Mr. Harwood.

POLITICAL and COMMERCIAL.

Art. 12. Commercial Laws, Charters and Decrees; being an authentic Copy of the Privileges and Immunities which have been granted at fundry Times, and on various Occafions, by the Kings of Portugal, in Favour of the Merchants of Great Britain; the whole properly attefted, and taken from the Register-book, by the British Confuls refiding at Lisbon. 4to. 4to. 4s. Jones, Clif

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The publication of these commercial decrees, &c. cannot but be acceptable to all who are concerned in the trade with Portugal. There is among them, a copy of the Articles of peace, alliance, and commerce, concluded between the most ferene LORD PROTECTOR of England, Scotland, and Ireland, on the one part, and the most ferene king of Portugal, and of the Algarves, on the other part: done at Westminfter, on the 10th of July, 1654.' This treaty, Ike his other tranfactions of the fame kind, does honour to Cromwell's memory; and fhews, how nobly the national reputation and intereft were fupported under his steady and vigorous administration.

Art. 13. The fecret Springs of the late Changes in the Miniftry fairly explained, by an Honest Man. In Anfwer to the Abuse and Mifreprefentations of a pretended Son of Candor. With an Introductory Letter to the Printer of the Public Advertiser. 8vo. › Is. 6d. Becket and de Hondt.

Our Readers may remember the appearance of one or two pamphlets, occafioned by a notable paper in the Public Advertiser of Sept. 5, 17655 in which the difmiffion of the late miniftry was freely animadverted upon; and fome hints were thrown out, in order to account for that fudden change, in a manner not fo much intended to do honour to the gentlemen who came in, on that occafion, as to vindicate the juft feelings and refentments of a GREAT PERSONAGE, on account of the arrogant behaviour of the former fet.

This pamphlet contains a new edition of that paper, with the Author's own commentary upon, and defence of it; and it now appears to be the production of no contemptible, though an incorrect pen. The fpirited Writer intimates, that he is not an author by profeffion; that he was a military man, of good repute in the army, and of great diftinction in the world' and [braving the confequences of fuch a declaration] he

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openly profeffes himself to be a friend to the cause of the Earl of B-. He is not, however, fo blindly attached to that nobleman's cause, as not to fee the error of his Lordship's conduct, in one very material respect, his avowed contempt of popularity; on which he makes the following remark, thus introduced: When I wrote my letter*, as well as when I faw the extract of it in print, the E of B-e had never had any direct nor indirect knowledge of my being one of his advocates; that long before, and ever fince, I never had the leaft intercourfe with himself, and very, very little with any of his friends; and that it is not a very long while ago, that by the means of fome of the latter, I did fend him very freely my fincere opinion on his unaccountable neglect, in fuffering the people to continue in that unjuft, unfortunate, and dangerous odium, which they had been, and were still daily inspired with, against him, by fo much public calumny, flander, and abufe, as the news-papers were filled with; and that I thought it high time, and his duty towards his k-g and country, as well as himfelf and family, to vindicate his honour and reputation, in the fame public manner as they had been attacked.

• Whether this has had any effect upon his own mind, I have not been able to learn; but I have fince feen with pleasure, that there have already appeared in your papers, other fuch convincing juftifications of his charac ter and conduct, that unless the public fhould read nothing but the unwarranted, unfupported (though thoufand times repeated) lies, that are th own out against him; and prefer the falfe wit and ridicule with which they are kept up, to the authentic facts and found arguments which have appeared in his defence, it is impoffible that the nation can still perfilt in an odium, founded upon nothing but detected and confuted flander and calumny. The Earl has always been blamed, by many of his friends, from the moment he appeared on the ftage, for not having minded. enough the dangerous effects which the full fcope and impunity of fuch infamous, and unexampled abufe, would at. laft produce amongst the generality of the people. He ought to have taken up the cudgels and thrust them into the hands of the ableft pen-men he could get, whether volunteers or mercenaries, for the vindication of his majefty's confidence in his counfels, as well as for the honour of government and his own reputation. He was, unfortunately for this kingdom, too much the man of honour, for using the means and tools employed by minifters in fupport of their power: he fcorned too much the mean and naufeous talk of purchafing men whom he could not but despise, at the expence of his fincerity, and with favours they did not deferve. He would otherwise have had a Churchill, and a Wilkes, at his elbow, and have furnished them with materials of truth and found politics, instead of the fcurrilous falfhoods, and feditious tenets, which their talents were employed in. He was, moreover, too much cut out for council and cabinet, to make the best of a drawing room: his mind was too elevated for the secondary views and functions of a minifter; and he was too intent upon the objects on which the prefervation and the welfare of a whole people de

It feems (according to this gentleman's folemn declarations) the paper in the Public Advertiser was not intended for the prefs. but was really an extract of a private letter to a friend; and by that friend inferted in the news paper, without the Writer's knowlege.

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