To thee, all-conscious presence! I devote My erning soul from virtue's path has stray'd, But, ah! how oft my lawless passions rove, And violate the virtue I adore! Oft when thy better spirit's guardian care With grief opprest, and prostrate in the dust, From rig'rous justice steals the vengeful hour, power; Disarms the wrath of an offended God, And seals my pardon in a Saviour's blood. All pow'rful Grace, exert thy gentle sway, Shall ev'ry high resolve devotion frames, Calm Calm let me slumber in that dark repose, The following elegant Latin Ode was written by than excellent Prelate and accomplished Scholar, Bishop LowтH; and the accompanying Translation was the Production of the late Rev. Mr. DUNCOMBE of Canterbury Cathedral. Ergo fluentem tu malè sedula, Quales nec olim vel Ptolomæia Nec diva Mater, cum similem tuæ NO longer seek the needless aid To shift thy glass and braid each straggling hair. As the gay flowers, which nature yields, Delight the fancy more than those Which gardens trim arrange in equal rows. As the rill, pure whose mazy train The prattling pebbles check in vain, Gives native pleasures, while it leads Its random waters winding thro' the meads; As birds, the groves and streams among, So simple dress and native grace In artful ornaments, conceal'd defects. Cease Cease then, with idly-cruel care Not Berenice's locks could boast A grace like thine; among the host Nor Venus, when her charms divine, She gave her tresses unconfin'd, To wave around her neck, and wanton in the wind. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. SOD's Defence and Protection the Thanksgiving. By the Rev. T. Rutledge, D. D. 8vo. 1s. 6d. A Sermon preached at Willsdon, Middlesex, on the day of the late General Thanksgiving. By the Rev. J. Mutter, A. M. A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of Great Stanmore. By the Rev. A. R. Chauvel, LL. B. Rector, 8vo. 1s. 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Two Apologies, one for Christianity, in a Series of Letters ad *The author here alludes to the beautiful description of Venus in the first book of the Æneid where she meets Eneas, in the habit of a huntress, as he was going towards Carthage: Cui mater mediâ sese tulit obvia sylvâ Virginis os habitumque gerens, et virginis arma- -Spartanæ,- Venatrix, dederatque comam diffundere ventis : Nuda genu, nodoque sinus collecta fluentes. ENEID i. v. 322. Vol. X. Churchm. Mag. for April 1805. Ss dressed dressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq. the other for the Bible, iu Answer to Thomas Paine. To which are added, Two Sermons, and a Charge in Defence of Revealed Religion, By Richard Watson, D. D. F. R.S. Lord Bishop of Llandaff. 8vo. 9s. boards. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. A PUBLICATION is about to appear in numbers, to be entituled, The Fathers of the English Church, or a Selection from the Writings of the Reformers, and early Protestant. Divines of the Church of England. A work of this kind is peculiarly wanted at this time, to counteract the attempts of the Sectaries, and particularly to check the Pretensions of the Calvinists. The Septuagint begun by the late Dr. Holmes, will be completed without further delay by the University of Oxford. The Rev. Mr. Cooper, of Hamstall Ridware, has a Second Volume of Sermons in the Press. The Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, Vice-Provost of the College of Fort William in Bengal, by the last Accounts from thence, was about to proceed to Cochin on the Coast of Malabar, for the purpose of examining the ancient Hebrew Manuscripts preserved in the Synagogue of the Jews at that place. The Manuscripts are represented to be of a very high Antiquity, being supposed to contain that portion of the Scriptures which was written before the first Dispersion of the Jews. A collection of them, with the European copies, has long been desired by the learned. Another object of Dr. Buchanan's mission will be, to enquire into the state of the native Christian Churches in the Provinces of Travancore and Malabar; particularly of the Thirty-five Congregations, denominated by the Roman Catho lics, the Schismatic Churches. These Christians refuse communion with the Church of Rome, and adhere to the simple ritual of an early age. They are noticed in history as early as the fourth century, and are supposed to have emigrated from Syria and Chaldea. At this day, the Syro-Chaldaic language is used in their Churches, and their Liturgy is composed in that language and character. Agreeably to instructions received from the Ecclesiastical Authorities at home, a report is to be made on the constitution and doctrine of these Churches, with a view to ascertain how far it may be the duty of the English Church to recognize the Christians of Malabar, now that they have become subjects of the British Empire. Their Churches have been governed for fifteen hundred years by a regular succession of bishops. Another subject of literary research offers itself among those antient Christians. When the Portuguese first arrived in India, they burned the Writings and Records found in the Christian Churches, and amongst them, says a Romish author, some apostolical monuments, in order to destroy the evidences of their antiquity, and force them to a union with the Church of Rome. But it has been stated, by a respectable authority, that certain antient manuscripts in the Chaldaic language a.e yet preserved in the country of Travancore. On the 30th ult. a new and simply elegant Episcopal Chapel was opened |
