III. THEIR Indocility, or Stiffness. IV. THEIR Logic, or, to fpeak more intelligibly, their Manner of Reasoning. V. THEIR Morals. VI. THEIR Confcience. VII. THEIR Want of Politeness, or Good Man ners, THO' this Subject has been handled with great Succefs a thousand times over, yet Mr. S. in fo fhort a fpace as a Sermon, preffes his Arguments fo home, that those whom he attacks cannot give any rational Anfwer. SERMON XII. preached on New-Year'sDay, (On the Number of our Days, from Pfalm P. 423. XC. 12. So teach us to number our Days, that we may apply our Hearts unto Wifdom.) Our Author fuppofes this Hymn to have been compofed by Mofes, the great Jewish Law-giver, on occafion of the People's murmuring, mentioned Numb. xiv. and then gives a general and hiftorical Idea of the Reafon of the Text. He next examines what is understood by, I. THE Number of our Days, and ་ཞ་་ II. THE Inference drawn by Divine Wisdom P. 430. from the Number of our Days. P. 465. AND then concludes with Exhortations to his Audience fuitable to the Occafion. SERMON XIII. (Of a future Judgment, from Hebr. ix. 27. It is appointed unto Men, once to die, after this the Judgment.) Our Author confiders his Text under two Heads. I. As he fuppofes himself to preach before an Audience already perfuaded of the Truth of a Judgement to come, he does not go about to prove it, but only furnish them with fome Affiftance in order to carry thefe Proofs yet farther, and arm them against the Attacks of our Pretended Free-thinkers, and Unbelievers, the Plague Peft of Society, and Infamy of the Age we live in. HERE he confiders the Inequality of Rewards and Punishments in this Life, the little P. 463. Thief put to death, and the great one rewarded;" the Hypocrite thundering out Anathemas, and perfecuting the erring Chriftian, &c. and receiving Applaufe, and Panegyrick, for his furious Zeal: The Ingrate, who, whilft his Friend is in Profperity, ever hangs on him, but afterwards turns his back upon him, as foon as Fortune frowns; and feveral other Crimes, which not being punished by human Laws, muft receive Punishment in another Life. II. WHAT is like to be the Destiny of those who make up his Audience in that great Day, when GOD will come, and determine the Fate of all Mankind. THO' at firft fight this Inquiry may seem difficult, yet St. Paul furnishes a perfect Answer to it. As many, fays he, (Rom. ii. 12.) as p. 481; have finned without Law, fhall perish without Law (that is to fay, the Levitical Law.) And as many as have finned in the Law, fhall be judged by the Law. To this Mr. S. adds, As many as have lived under the Gospel, fhall be judged by the Gospel. As to the Gospel, it is, I. An Economy of Light. II. AN Economy of Proportion. ALL these he confiders diftinctly, and concludes with pathetical Counfels. Ar the End of this Volume is a Certificate from the Ministers, &c. of Dort, of the Soundnefs of the Doctrine contain'd in the foregoing Sermons; wherein we find, that theReverend No XIX. 1732. VOL. IV. Ε Mr. Mr. Dumont, Minister and Profeffor at Rotterdam, appointed by the late Reverend Mr. J. Saurin, in his Will,to publifh what will be found fit for the Press, among his Papers, is the Editor of these two Volumes. It is pity they are so incorrectly printed. THE Reverend Mr. JAMES SAURIN, Author of the Sermons we have now given an Abftract of, was born at Nimes in Languedoc, in the Year 1667. In the Year 1685, or 1686, he was forced with his Father and Family, by the Perfecution ftirred up in France against the Reformed, to remove to Geneva, where he made a very astonishing Progrefs in his Studies. Among his Companions, fome greatly commending to him the Profeffion of Arms, he, at fixteen Years of Age, lifted himself in the Army, and ferved as Cadet in the Earl of Gallway's Regiment in Piemont; and the next Year was made Enfign in another Regiment. But the Duke of Savoy making a feparate Peace with France, he returned to Geneva, where he refumed his Studies, with greater Alacrity than ever. From thence he came, thro' Holland, to London, in 1701, where he entered into Priest's Orders, was married, and preach'd a few Years at the French Chappels, called the Greeks (in Sobo) and the Savoy. In 1705, he was invited over to the Hague, and foon after was chofen Minister to the Nobles, among whom he lived in great Efteem, and Familiarity. He died the thirtieth Day of December 1730, N. S. and was buried the fifth of January following. He hath left a Widow, now in London, and two Sons; Philip, aged about 22 Years, and Anthony, LITTERARIA. Anthony, about 9. He has two Brothers alive, Lewis, Dean of in Ireland, and Mark Gentleman Usher to her Majefty of Great Britain. I. His Works are 6 Vol. of Sermons. II. HISTORICAL, Critical, Theological and Moral Difcourfes, on the most memorable Events of the Old and New Teftaments, 2 Vol. in fol. With a great Number of most beautiful Cuts; publifhed afterward in... Vol. 8vo. This Work is unfinished. III. A Catechifm for the Ufe of a CharitySchool, fet up by fome Dutch Noblemen, at his perfuafion, at the Hague. 8vo. pp. 506. IV. THIS fame Catechism abridg'd. V. THE State of the Chriftian Religion in France. As to this Gentleman's Character, we must refer our Readers to what has been already printed, concerning him, in the Foreign Journals. We only beg leave to fay, that no Orator ever had a fweeter Voice, a finer Action, nor a more graceful Utterance and Delivery. This is what every one must own, who have heard him. As to his Works, the Public has fhewn their Approbation of them. But if we may be allowed to fpeak our private Opinion of the Sermons we have now given an account of, they abound with Flights and Flashes of Wit, which may do well enough in a Declamation, chiefly when fupported by thofe great and uncommon Qualifications this Orator was Mafter of; but will not fo well ftand the Teft of Print, where Readers have time to examine whether there be any Juftness of Thought in what they have read. To do Juftice to the Author, one may, with truth, affirm that in point of Eloquence, feveral of his Sermons may vie with the best Pieces of French Oratory. But it must be confeffed, that, notwithstanding all their Merit, we cannot but give our BARROWS, TILLOT SONS, CLARKS, &c. the Preference over Mr. S. when we compare his Sermons to thofe of the great and profoundly learned Masters juft mention'd; who, aiming at nothing more than convincing their Hearers, made ufe only of the best and strongest Arguments to enforce their Doctrine, defpifing thefe needlefs Trappings, and Decorations, if I may use the Expreffion, and offered Truth to their Audience, adorned only with its native Beauties. ARTICLE IV. Hiftoire Critique des Pratiques fuperftitieuses, qui ont féduit les Peuples & embarraffé les Sçavans. Par le R. P. Pierre Le Brun, &c. Prêtre del' Oratoire. That is, A Critical History of fuch fuperftitious Practices, as have feduc'd the Vulgar, and puzzled the Learned, &c. By Father le Brun, Priest of the Oratory. Q. H AVING given Extracts of the first and fecond Volumes of this curious Work, in our two laft Journals, we now come to the third and laft Volume of it, which is not, like the |