the fortunes of the Jewish Church and State, he would only have provoked them, and made himself enemies of the greatest part of his hearers.

Let us suppose them to have been fully determined to part with nothing for the sake of religion. For such persons as these, unintelligible parables were as useful doctrines as the plainest parts of the Gospel. If Christ had told them expressly what he expected from them on entering into his service, they would have departed displeased and offended; sorrowful, at the best, to find required from them what they were resolved not to perform. (JORTIN.)

ways.

But if Christ has spoken unto us as to the wise and intelligent; if by grace it has been given to us to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; let us thankfully and earnestly apply to our own amendment the spiritual instruction conveyed in the diversified parables of our Lord. Let the amiable and gracious representations of God's marvellous loving-kindness towards penitents, engage us to forsake our evil Let us be careful to maintain that humble frame of spirit which our Lord recommends; and cultivate real happiness without depending on mere external professions. Let us be assiduous, under many encouragements, to be diligent in communion with God by prayer; and, finally, to our prayers let us add vigilance, that we may not be surprised by our Lord's unexpected advent. Happy shall we be, if these excellent lessons of our heavenly Teacher be reduced, by his co-operating grace, into practice: thus uniting the glory of our Master with our own advantage, both in this and the future world. (LELAND. See Reverend T. H. HORNE's full and able discussion on Parables, vol. ii. part 2, § 5.)

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A Course of Sermons for the Year, containing two for each Sunday, and one for each Holyday: abridged from the most eminent Divines of the Established Church, and adapted to the Service of the Day, by Rev. J. R. PITMAN, M.A., Alternate Morning Preacher at Belgrave and Berkeley Chapels; and alternate Evening Preacher at the Foundling and Magdalen Hospitals.

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Practical Lectures on the Ten First Chapters of

St. John's Gospel.

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A Course of Sermons on the Psalms; containing

three or more for each day of the month: by Rev. J. R. PITMAN, M.A., Incumbent of St. Barnabas' Church, Kensington; and Domestic Chaplain to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

In July will be Published, by Subfcription, Part I. of

Cyclopaedia Bibliographica;

A LIBRARY MANUAL OF

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THE want of an extensive and well-digested Bibliographical work on Theology and subjects connected with it has long been felt as a great inconvenience, both by authors and readers. Owing to this deficiency in our literature, authors are deprived of much assistance which they would other wise obtain in perfecting their works, and readers have often to be content with superficial books when such a guide would at once direct them to the best sources of information.

In the Catalogue now proposed for publication an attempt will be made to supply this desideratum. It will be formed on a plan calculated to make known the productions of former ages, as well as those of the present time, in the easiest as well as the most exact manner, the result of many years' study of the best. Bibliographical systems, and of the wants of literary men.

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Where necessary, critical notices of the works will be given, the result of a careful investigation of what has been delivered by the most impartial and able writers. The variations of editions will be noticed, and those that are considered the best will be specified. The authors and books will be enumerated at length which are contained in the collected publications of the Fathers of the Church, Middle Age writers, and others such as the Bibliotheca Patrum of De la Bigne, of Despont, and of Gallandius; the Bollandine Acta Sanctorum, the Collections of Combefis, Routh, Cotelerius, Martene and Durand, D'Achery, Mabillon, Canisius, Asseman, Ugolini, Bishop Gibson, Wharton, Gale and Fell, Twysden; the Boyle, Moyer, Bampton, Hulsean, and Warburtonian Lectures; and numerous other collections. It will at once be perceived that this plan embraces objects which have never yet been attempted on a complete scale in any Bibliographical work, and that it will develope the valuable contents of innumerable volumes which are, for want of such lists, of comparatively little use to the Divinity Student.

In the SECOND VOLUME the whole of the matter contained in the first will be arranged under heads or common-places in scientific order, with an Alphabetical Index, by which any subject can be readily referred to; and all authors of any authority who have written on it at once exhibited, with the titles of their Works, Treatises, Dissertations, or Sermons, and a reference to the volumes and pages where they are to be found.. Sermons and other illustrations of Scripture will be arranged, not only under the books, chapters, or verses of Scripture on which they treat, but also under the subjects of Divinity; and the Festivals, Fasts, and other days observed by the Church throughout the year. This last department will form a very important feature in the Work; the Library containing an uncommonly complete collection, the whole contents of which will be made available in the readiest

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