DEATHS. QUARTERLY LIST. JORDAN BAKER, Laurens Co., Ga., Jan. 6, aged 54. JULIUS C. BARLOW, Fredonia, Licking Co., JOHN HUBBARD, Christian Co., Ky., May11. SARDIS LITTLE, Watertown, N. Y., Jan. 31, aged 56. DANIEL MABIE, Castile, Wyoming Co., N. V. M. MASON, Amelia, Va, July 15. ALBERT W. SMITH, Nomoni, Va., June 3. WILLIAM D. UPHAM, Townsend, Vt., June 30, aged 33. CHURCHES CONSTITUTED. EDMUND WALLER, Ky., May. ORDINATIONS. DANIEL AMERMAN, Fredericksburg, Wayne Co., O., June 8. LEWIS W. ANNAN, Beekmanville, Duchess DAVID H. BABCOCK, Ingham. Mich., June 1. HENRY S. CARD, Clear Creek, Cattaraugus 26. HENRY M. DANFORTH, Marlborough, N. H., July 4. EBENEZER S. DAVIS, Cincinnati, O. 21. D. DOUDEN, Little Mount, Ky., March 25. JOHN GRANT, Baltimore, Md., May 28. J. P. HARRIS, Remsen, N. Y., May 5. BENJAMIN F. LEAVITT, Bethany, O., May 17. Z. M. LEAVITT, Randolph, Crawford Co., Pa., Nov. 23. WILLIAM R. MAYBURY, Baltimore, Md. Z. MORTON, Alfred, Me., July 6. THOMAS H. MURPHY, Beach Spring, Ga., EDMUND NUGENT, Harrington, Me., May 17. HARLOW ORTON, Valparaiso, Porter Co., Ind., May 14. JOHN G. POND, Biffe Creek, Casey Co., Ky. THOMAS ROBERTS, Mt. Shilo, Nelson Co., Va., July 14. Violet township, Fairfield Co., O., April. Savannah, O., June 1. Clarksfield, Huron Co., O., June 5. Fredericksburg, Wayne Co., O., June 8. Troy, N. Y., North chh., June 18. Vernon, Miss., June 24. Washington, Muskingum Co., O., June 30. Lester, Liv. Co., N. Y., July 20. North Wrentham, Mass., Aug. 10. DEDICATIONS. Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., N. Y., Feb. 23. Lebanon chh., Lancaster Co., Va., May 21. CONTENTS OF NO. XXII. I. NEAL'S HISTORY OF THE PURITANS, The History of the Puritans, or Protestant Nonconformists; from the Reformation in 1517, to the Revolution in 1688.-Comprising an account of their principles; their attempts for a further reform- ation in the Church; their sufferings; and the lives and characters of their most considerable divines. By DANIEL NEAL. II. LIBRARY CATALOGUE OF BROWN UNIVERSITY, . A Catalogue of the Library of Brown University. With an Index General History of Civilization in Europe, from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution. By M. GUIZOT. The Influence of Scientific Discovery and Invention on Social and Political Progress. An Oration, by JOB DURfee. VI. NEANDER ON THE PARABLES OF CHRIST, Translated from his "Das Leben Jesu Christi, in seinem ge- schichtlichen Zusammenhange und seiner geschichtlichen Ent- wickelung." By H. B. HACKETT, Professor in Newton Theol. VIII. DAVIDSON'S SACRED HERMENEUTICS, Sacred Hermeneutics Developed and Applied; including a His- tory of Biblical Interpretation, from the Earliest of the Fathers to 3. Hengstenberg's Egypt and the Books of Moses. 4. Burnet's History of the Reformation of the Church of England. 9. Warren's Systematic View of Geography. 11. Fowle's Familiar Dialogues and Discourses. 15. History of the Hawaiian Islands. 16. Scenes and Scenery in the Sandwich Islands. THE CHRISTIAN CHRISTIAN REVIEW. NO. XXXII. DECEMBER, 1843. ARTICLE I. NEAL'S HISTORY OF THE PURITANS. THE HISTORY OF THE PURITANS, OR PROTESTANT NONCONFORMISTS; from the Reformation in 1517, to the Revolution in 1688.-Comprising an account of their principles; their attempts for a further reformation in the Church; their sufferings; and the lives and characters of their most considerable divines.-By DANIEL NEAL. Reprinted from the Text of Dr. Toulmin's edition. Revised, corrected, and enlarged with additional notes. By JOHN O. CHOULES. With nine portraits on steel.— New York. Harper and Brothers. AMONG the intelligence which is of ineffable value to all Christians, and especially to the servants of the sanctuary. and the officers of the churches, next to an ample acquaintance with the Holy Scriptures, and with the authoritative instructions which they reveal, the knowledge of the progressive condition of the Redeemer's terrestrial kingdom is of the highest interest. That acquisition is now become the imperious duty, as well as the august privilege of every disciple of Jesus. All our greatly exciting religious controversies are cemented with the past ages; and are augmented by the untiring endeavor to resuscitate, from the sepulchre of remote antiquity, heretical dogmas, which are to be admitted as infallible; traditions, however contradictory and unscriptural, VOL. VIII.-NO. XXXII. 61 which none may dispute; superstitious rites and ceremonies, adopted from Paganism; and a priestly power and exclusiveness, as arrogant, as their admission and exercise are discordant and mischievous. If we would have "a true heart, in full assurance of faith,” we must know "the operations of the Lord's hands." We must recur to the "things which were written aforetime for our learning, that through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope." It appears to have escaped the conviction, if not the remembrance of a countless majority of Christians, that the authentic history of the churches of Immanuel during the past centuries, since the day of Pentecost, is only a comment upon "the oracles of God," and an expositor of the prophecies respecting the sheepfold of the ONE great "Shepherd and Bishop of souls." That professing Christians who are ignorant of the Scriptures, should be ensnared by the wiles of Jesuitism, under both at Roman and a pseudo-Catholic name, is not surprising; nor is it marvellous, that they who know little or nothing of the earlier martyrologies, and of the wide-spread reforming revolution of the sixteenth century, and of the ecclesiastical warfare in Britain, during the last three hundred years, to use the language of the apostle Paul, should be "children, tossed to and fro, carried about by every wind of doctrine, and by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive."-Eph. 4: 14. The correct understanding of the state of the Christian churches in every period, and especially during the apostolic age, and until the earthquake which accompanied the opening of the sixth seal,-Rev. 6: 12-17, and thence until the triumphant exaltation of the "man of sin," in the person of Pope Boniface III,—and a minute acquaintance with the Anglican portion of ecclesiastical history subsequent to the first resistance of Henry VIII to the Roman pontiff, are absolutely necessary in the present exigencies of the Christian churches. In this application, we opine, that the republication of a standard edition of Neal's " HISTORY OF THE PURITANS, OR PROTESTANT NONCONFORMISTS," is an excellent development of the hallowed philanthropy, which exults in the opening of the blind eyes, and in turning "men from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God." It is an exuberant |