THE

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

AND

GENERAL REVIEW.

VOL. XXV.

THIRD SERIES, VOLUME VII.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.

LONDON:

R. J. KENNETT, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1839.

CAMBRIDGE PRESS:

METCALF, TORRY, AND BALLOU.

CONTENTS

OF

VOL. XXV. - THIRD SERIES, VOL. VII.

ART. I.

ART. II.

No. I.

De Wette's Views of Theology.

The Music of Nature; or, An Attempt to prove that

what is passionate and pleasing in the Art of Singing, Speak-

ing, and Performing upon Musical Instruments, is derived

from the Sounds of the Animated World. With curious and

interesting Illustrations. By WILLIAM GARDINER.

ART. III. - The Western Messenger; devoted to Religion and

Literature. Vol. V. No. I. April, 1838. Louisville. Con-

ducted by J. F. CLARKE.

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37

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ART. IV. - The Young Man's Aid. By Rev. HUBBARD WINSLOW. 43

ART. V.-The Miscellaneous Works of H. MACKENZIE, Esq.

ART. VI.-Cinq Mois aux Etats-Unis de l'Amérique du Nord,

depuis le 29 Avril jusqu'au 23 Septembre 1835; Journal de

voyage de M. RAMON DE LA SAGRA, Directeur de Jardin des

Plantes de la Havane, &c. Traduit de l'Espagnol, par M.

RENE BAISAS.

ART. VII. The Life and Times of the Rev. George Whitefield,

M. A. By ROBERT PHILIP.

ART. VIII. Academical Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures and

Antiquities. By JOHN GORHAM PALFREY, D. D., Professor

of Biblical Literature in the University of Cambridge. Vol.

I. The Last four Books of the Pentateuch.

NOTICES AND INTELLIGENCE. 1. Roy's Hebrew and English

Dictionary. 2. Defence of Roy's Dictionary.- Ministry at

large in Boston. By JOSEPH TUCKERMAN. M'Kim's Let-

ter to the Presbytery of Wilmington. - Furness's Jesus and

his Biographers.-Jewett's Passages in Foreign Travel.—

Callender's Century Discourse. With a Memoir of the Au-

thor; Biographical Notices of some of his distinguished Con-

temporaries, &c. &c.

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85

106

129

No. II.

ART. I.—The Skepticism of the Present Age: being a Transla-

tion of one of the Lectures of M. Jouffroy, in his Cours de

Droit Naturel.

137

ART. II. — Exclusion of Witnesses for Want of Religious Belief. 157

ART. III. — Twice-Told Tales. By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.

182

ART. IV. - The Claims of Episcopacy examined; being the Dud-

leian Lecture delivered in the Chapel of Harvard University,

May, 9th, 1838. By the Rev. GEORGE R. NOYES.

190

ART. V.-The Principles and Results of the Ministry at Large,

in Boston. By JÓSEPH TUCKERMAN.

ART. VI.

Correspondence between the Hon. F. H. Elmore, one

of the South Carolina Delegation in Congress, and James G.

Birney, one of the Secretaries of the American Anti-slavery

Society.

219

228

255

ART. VII.—Good Sense and Eloquence.

NOTICES AND IMTELLIGENCE. A History of the Presbyterian and

General Baptist Churches in the West of England; with

Memoirs of some of their Pastors. Sermons by Rev. J. B.

PITKIN. With a Memoir of the Author. - Vegetable Diet.

By WILLIAM A. ALCOTT.- Buds of Spring. Poetical Re-

mains of AUGUSTUS FOSTER LYDE.- An Address delivered

before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge. -

The Personality of the Deity. A Sermon preached in the

Chapel of Harvard University. New Philosophies in the

West. A Voice of Warning and Instruction to all People,

containing a Declaration of the Faith and Doctrine of the

Church of the Latter Day Saints, commonly called Mormons. 261

No. III.

ART. I.. - Sulla Morale Cattolica Osservazioni di ALESSANDRO

MANZONI.

ART. II. 1. Historical Sketches of the Old Painters. By THE AU-

THOR OF THREE EXPERIMENTS OF LIVING. 2. Catalogue

of the Twelfth Exhibition of Paintings at the Athenæum

Gallery.

ART. III. Life and Select Discourses of Rev. SAMUEL. H.

STEARNS.

273

304

320

ART. IV. — Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. By J.

G. LOCKHART.

340

ART. V.—The Christian in Plato and in the Platonic Philosophy

developed and presented. By Dr. C. ACKERMANN, Archdea-

con of Jena.

367

385

ART. VI. — William Tell; a Drama, in five Acts. From the Ger-

man of SCHILLER.

ART. VII.—The Christian Teacher; a Theological and Literary

Journal. Nos. I. II.

NOTICES AND INTELLIGENCE.-The Authenticity of the New

Testament. Translated from the French of J. E. CELLE-

RIER. -Introduction to the German Language: comprising

a German Grammar, with an Appendix of important Tables

and other matter; and a German Reader, consisting of Se-

lections from the Classic Literature of Germany, accompa-

nied by Explanatory Notes, and a Vocabulary adapted to the

Selections. By DAVID FOSDICK, JR. - Picciola, or Captivity

Captive. By M. D. SAINTINE. Sketches of Martha's Vine-

yard, and other Reminiscences of Travel at Home, &c. By

an INEXPERIENCED CLERGYMAN.

INDEX.

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CHRISTIAN EXAMINER.

No. LXXXVIII.

THIRD SERIES-No. XIX.

SEPTEMBER, 1838.

ART. I.—1. Lehrbuch der Christlichen Dogmatik, in ihren historischen Entwickelung dargestellt. Von D. WILHElm MARTIN LEBERECHT DE WETTE. 2 Theile. Berlin, 1830, 1821. Manual of Doctrinal Christianity in its Historical Development.

2. Ueber Religion und Theologie. Erlauterungen su seinem Lehrbuche der Dogmatik. Von DR. W. M. L. DE WETTE. Berlin, 1821. On Religion and Theology. Illustrations of his Manual of Doctrinal Christianity.

3. Ueber die Religion, ihr Wesen, ihre Erscheinungsformen, und ihren Einfluss auf das Leben. Vorlesungen von DR. W. M. L. DE WETTE. Berlin, 1817. Lectures on Religion in its Essence, its Manifestations, and its Influence on Life.

In a former article we have given an outline of De Wette's views of Religion, as it is in Itself, its Manifestations, and its Influence on Life. Bearing these views still in mind, we would now contemplate the author's further development of them, and examine his opinions on the leading subjects in Christian Theology.

The Bible, it is well said by a distinguished Orthodox divine, holds the same relation to religious truth, that the material world holds to physical science. It is the repository of the great facts in man's religious experience, as the latter is of the facts of observation. Wise and rare indeed is the Theologian, VOL. XXV. - 3D S. VOL. VII. NO. I.

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