It is a downwright loss of time to read such confusion confused, and a painful loss of cash to purchase it. The book should be placed in that museum (if you can find it) which is set apart for worthless and singular curiosities.

The Gospel Cottage Lecturer.-Part 1. London, W. H. COLLINGRIDGE, Long Lane.

This book is far more to our taste than the one before noticed. There is much in it that has comforted us greatly. The Lectures are full of simple yet glorious truths; in them the eternal truths of God's word are plainly, solemnly, and experimentally expatiated upon. With the exception of one or two observations in those Lectures, we can heartily recommend them; there is much said on the person of the Saviour-the perfection of his mediation and saving knowledge of Christ that has rejoiced our heart. We are sure these Lectures will be read with

pleasure and real soul profit by many.

A Memoir of James Castleden, thirty-six years Pastor of the Baptist Church, Holly Bush Hill, Hampstead.-By J. A. JONES, Minister of the Gospel, London. Published by J. Paul, 1, Chapter House Court, St. Paul's, and by the Editor, 50, Murray Street, City Road.

This is a concise and deeply interesting memoir of an aged minister of the gospel. The Editor has given us a most solemn

and impressive preface, which we sincerely hope will be read by many public men with advantage. The aged minister says "Even amongst those who tacitly avow the truth, I have discovered a sort of slenderness in their ministry, a rambling discursiveness over bible premises without eliciting much to the profit of their hearers. If the oil with which they trim their lamps is good (i.e. pure olive oil. Exod. xxvii. 20.), still it is not beaten oil-not altogether free from lees and dregs-so that their lamps do not at all times give a clear and brilliant light, and the flame does not "ascend up", as the margin has it in the pre-cited text. I am aware this is a tender subject, but I shall make no apology Preachers are many, but Teachers are, comparatively, but few." This is a fair specimen of the tone and style of the preface, in which many interesting and weighty extracts from the writings of Gill, Owen, Pearce, and Stevens appear. We shall be glad to learn that many thousands of this Memoir are circulated.

The Preacher in Print.-Sermons by J. C. PHILPOT. London, J. Paul, 1, Chapter House Court, St. Paul's.

This is a small volume of Sermons preached by J. C. Philpot, in the year 1843. It delighted us to see in the preface, written by Mr. Philpot himself, these expressions: "My views of doctrine and experience are the same now as they were then; but I have been more in the furnace of tribulation during the last eight or nine years, and have had deeper views of sin and self, and of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. This has made me look more at myself and less at others, and to seek rather to edify the living family of God than do battle against the formalist."

This is a pleasing change in the ministry of a good man. It is distressing to God-fearing minds who are real lovers of the eternal truths of the Gospel to witness the pride of many professors, they are proud of their corruptions, and rather glory in vile depravity, instead of glorying in the Person, Mediation, Sacrificial work, and endless Priesthood and life of the Son of God. There are many who call themselves ministers of truth, who foster this unscriptural and injurious state of things. We like that ministry which enters into the disease, and shows the suitableness, certainty, and freeness of the remedy, God, in his eternal and sovereign favour, has provided through the mediation of Christ.

The restoration of the Jews to their own land; and the personal coming of the Messiah.-A Lecture by MR. J. CHISLETT, Minister of East Street Chapel, Walworth, London. Houlston and Stoneman, Paternoster Row.

There are many excellent things in Mr. Chislett's Lectures with which we heartily agree. There are some bold dogmatic assertions on the restoration of the Jews to their own land not at all convincing to our minds we must confess, we must have scriptural and undoubtable proof and not mere assertion. However there is much in this Lecture to commend, especially, we think, the following extract:

"The Scriptures are also a rule of practice. Here Christians are taught how to worship God, in Spirit and in truth; with words well ordered, and few; not as the hypocrites, with a vain show, and vain

repetitions; here we are directed how to live-soberly, righteously and godly; peaceably, as much as lieth in us, with all men; separately, in spirit and in practice, from the ungodly. As followers of Christ, to love one another; to be pitiful and courteous, distributing to the necessities of saints, not shutting up our bowels of compassion 'but to communicate, and forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.' The powers that be, we are to respect and pray for, 'that they may be a terror unto evil doers, and a praise unto them that do well.' 'Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.' This book is professedly the standard of all appeal by those who now are professedly the church of Christ :but is it so? The church we understand are those who are separated from the world by special grace; who are built upon the Rock, the Body of Christ; and when they are drawn together by the love, and Spirit of truth, they are a Christian assembly, in which is unity, one mind, one faith, one Lord, one baptism: each other's sorrows and joys are mutual; 'watching over one another in love.'

These, and these only, make the Scriptures the rule of faith and practice.

'I have purposed to shew that the professing churches have departed from this rule of faith and practice; and here I would not be understood to be attacking any man, or body of men; my object is truth, for my own sake, and for you who listen to me. Where is the Christian man who does not sigh over the desolations that appear on every hand? Is not the address to the church at Laodicea but too applicable in the present day? Are not the great and distinguishing doctrines of the gospel kept from the people? Are not the traditions of men instituted instead of the word of God? Do we not behold systems of unauthorized human inventions preferred by

professing churches, to the plain commands of Christ, and of his apostles, and to the examples of the first Christians? Do we not find more attention paid to forms and ceremonies, to the position and costume of the body, than to the weightier matters of love and virtue? Would not the conduct of the Saviour in the Jewish temple be richly merited by so-called Christian churches,—' You have made my house a den of thieves?' Does not the trumpet give an uncertain sound? What would our non-conforming fathers say, could they revisit us, who for truth and conscience sake, suffered fines, imprisonments, tortures, and deaths? The doctrine of free, sovereign, electing love, the first cause, the fountain head of all covenant blessings, is seldom dwelt upon. The justification of the poor lost sinner, through the perfect righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ, as an act of sovereign grace, imputed to him, is by many called nonsense-a dangerous doctrine! The preaching of the gospel to the world, to gather out of them a people for his name, is perverted, and universal redemption, universal offers, and universal invitations, are declared to be standard truths. The sentiments of popes, cardinals, archbishops, and doctors are promulgated instead of 'thus saith the Lord.' Jesus Christ, the great Head of his church, to whom every member is vitally and eternally united, is disregarded, and other heads are substituted."