BY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, B. D. Fellow of Oriel College, and Vicar of St. Mary the Virgin's, Oxford. THE SIX VOLUMES OF LONDON EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES, PRICE FIVE DOLLARS. RECOMMENDATIONS. From the Bishop of New-York. It gives me great pleasure to hear of your design to publish an American edition of the Rev. John Henry Newman's Parochial Sermons. From a partial acquaintance with thein by my own perusal, and a knowledge of the opinion entertained of them by brethren in whose correct views and sound judgment I have the fullest confidence, I have no hesitation in regarding these sermons as eminently calculated to promote the knowledge and practice of genuine evan. gelical religion. I have long, gentlemen, cherished a grateful sense of the obligation under which all true friends of that religion lie to you for the great good which your press has done to its cause. I cordially commend the present enterprise as worthy of all patronage, and would be glad to have these volumes of sermons in the possession of every family in my diocese. For simplicity and godly sincerity, for humble and child-like reliance on the word of God, and for close, pointed, an uncompromising presentation of the truths and duties of the Gospel, I know not their su periors; nor their equals, except it be in the well known and generally approved "Plain Ser. mons, by Contributors to the Tracts for the Times." To all then who love the Gospel, and desire true instruction therein, I unhesitatingly com. men Newman's Parochial Sermons. Wishing you success in the truly good work to which your press is so largely contributing, I have the honor to be, gentlemen, with great respect, Yours very truly, New-York, Dec. 7, 1842. From the Bishop of New Jersey. BENJ. T. ONDERDONK. I highly approve your proposal to reprint Mr. Newman's admirable Parochial Sermons, and desire for them the inost extended circulation. Much as I have been gratified by your republication of many excellent books, the heirlooms which the Church of England has derived from ancient piety, and learning, or the production of the vigorous minds and fervent hearts that now adorn while they defend her altars, I have looked and longed for an edition of these sermons, as your noblest contribution to the sacred literature of the times. Mr. Newman's Setinons are of an order by themselves. There is a naturalness, a pressure towards the point proposed, an ever salient freshness, about them, which will attract a class of readers, to whom sermons are not ordinarily attractive. Again, they are of a wonderful comprehension. While they are not above the level of the plainest readers, they will interest and satisfy the highest and most accomplished minds. With the most intellectual persons, they will win their way, I am sure, as no modern productions of this sort have done But all these are but incidentals to their sterling and imperishable worth, as expositions of the truth of Holy Scripture, and exhortations to the duties of the Christian life, urged to the heart with an earnestness and unction scarcely paralleled; abvove all, carrying with them a force beyond all argument, beyond all eloquence, in the living power of holiness with which they are instinct, to rouse the careless, to steady the wavering, to sober the worldly, to animate and elevate the humble seeker of the kingdom of God and its righteousness, and to imbue the age with, what it needs the most, humility and heavenly-mindedness. I shall welcome your proposed volumes as powerful auxiliaries to my exertions to set forth the Gospel in the Church: and devoutly pray that God may bless them to the edification of many souls, and to the advancement of the pure and peaceful kingdom of His blessed Son. Bidding you "God speed" in your career of useful and most honorable enterprise, I am faithfully your friend, G. W. DOANE, Riverside, St. Andrew's Day, 1842. From the Bishop of North Carolina. Raleigh, Nov. 28, 1842, Your letter announcing your intention to republish the PAROCHIAL SERMONS OF THE REV. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, B. D, Oxford, has given me sincere pleasure. In compliance with your request for my opinion of them, I do not hesitate to say,-after a constant use of them in my closet, and an observation of their effect upon some of my friends, for the last six years,-that they are among the very best practical sermons in the English language; that while they are Divinity, Theology, Religious and Devotional Works. free from those extravagances of opinion usually ascribed to the author of the 90th Tract, they assert in the strongest manner the true doctrines of the Reformation in England, and enforce with peculiar solemnity and effect that holiness of life, with the means thereto, so characteristic of the Fathers of that trying age. With high respect and esteem, your friend and servant. From the Bishop of Maryland. L. S. IVES. Dec. 17, 1842. I am glad that you design to publish Mr. Newman's Sermons. The portions of their contents about which there is a difference of opinion, are not to be set in the scale against the general tendency of the volumes.-Deeply spiritual, and searching the reader's heart with no ordinary insig t into its recesses, they cannot fail to quicken faith, alarin lukewarmness, expose hypoc risy, detect unbelief, and powerfully stimulate the sinner to repentance and the believer to renewal and increase of holiness. Nowhere have I seen Christ crucified, yea, rather risen again, set forth with more plainness. By no practical writings have I been more strongly moved to loathing of sin, and utter renunciation of self-dependence. Man's helplesness and the all-sufficiency of Christ, are nowhere to be found set forth with greater earnestness of enforcement and variety of illustration. Very respectfully your obedient servant, W. R. WHITTINGHAM. From the Rev. Dr. Seabury (editorial notice in Churchman). We are pleased 10ean that D. Appleton & Co., contemplate the republication of Mr. Newman's Sermons. The English copy now forms six volumes, and cannot be furnished to purchasers at a less price than $3 a volume. The American copy, if published, will give the same amount of matter in two volumes, at $250 a volume: making a difference of 13 dollars. The work will be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are obtained to indemnify the publishers-We can hardly doubt that many of our readers, on seeing th's notice, will hand in their names. The sermons of Mr. Newinan have already in this country produced the hap piest effects, and we have long and often desired their republication, in order that the sphere of their influence may be enlarged. Now ready, Second Edition. THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. By GILBERT BURNET, D. D., late Lord Bishop of Salisbury. With the Collection of Records, and a copious Index, revised and corrected, with a lditional Notes and a Preface, by the Rev. E. Nares, D. D. Illustrated with a Frontispiece and twenty-three Portraits on steel. Forming four elegant 8vo vols, of near C00 pages each. $3.00. This is one of those great standard works for which the publishers have especially deserved the thanks of ecclesiastical students and of general scholars throughout the land. Oftentimes the heart of the lover of truth and true intellectual progress, sinks within him at the sight of the pernicious trash that is thrown so broadly before the reading public, and he feels it impossible that, under this influence, the public taste should not become depraved, the public morals debouched, and literature, which should be the minister of purity and virtue, made the engine of all corrupting vice. But the efforts, crowned, we are confident, with abundant success, of some of the principal publishing houses in this city and in Phil delphia, to bring out, in a style befitting their worth, the rarer standard works of English History and Theology, give ground of enCouragement and hope. To the student either of civil or religious history to epoch can be of more importance than that of the Reforination in Engiand. It signalized the overthrow, in one of its strongest holds, of the Roman power and gave an impulse to the human mind the full results of which are even now but partly realized. Almost all freedom of inquiry-all toleration in matters of religion, had its birth-hour then; and without a familiar acquaintance with all its principal events, but little p ogress can be made in understanding the nature and ultimate tendencies f the revolution then effected. The His ory of Bishop BURNET is one of the most celebrated and by far the most frequently quoted of any that has been written of this great event. Upon the original publication of the first volume, it was received in Great Britain with the loudest and most extravagant encomiums. The author received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and was requested by them to continu⚫ the work. In continuing it he had the assistance of the most learned and eminent divines of his time; and he confesses his indebtedness for important aid to LLOYD, TILLOTSON and STILLINGFLEET, three of the greatest of England's Bishops. "I know," says he, in his Preface to the second volume, "that nothing can more eff cially recommend this work, than to say that it passed with their hearty approbation, after they had examined it with that care which their great zeal for the cause concerned in it, and their goodness to the author and freedon with him ob iged them to use." The present edition of this great work has been edited with laborious care by Dr. Nares, who professes to have corrected import nt errors into which the author feil, and to have made such improvements in the or ter of the work as will render it far more useful to the reader or historic student. Preliminary explanations, full and sufficient to the clear understanding of the au thor. are given and merg nal references are made throughout the book, so as greatly to facilitate and render accurate its consultation. The whole is published in four large octavo volumes of six hundred pages in each-printed upon heavy paper in large and clear type. It co tains por traits of twenty-four of the most celeb ated characters of the Reformation, and is issued in a very neat style. It will of course find a place in every theologian's library-and will, by no means we trust, be confined to that comparatively limited sphere. |