Prefent State OF THE REPUBLICK O F LETTER S. For January, 1731. VQ L. VII. -Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere que ferrum valet, exfors ipfa fecandi. Horat. LONDON: Printed for WILLIAM INNYS, at the Weft End of St. Paul's. MDCC XXXI. Price One Shilling. I. [2] BOOKS printed for W. IN NY S. T HE Cafe of Reason, or Natural Religion, fairly and fully stated, in Answer to a Book Entitled, Christianity as Old as the Creation. By William Law, M. A. Part I. II. Fleury's Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, N° 24. or the firft Number of the 5th Vol. N. B. N° 25. is in the Press, and will speedily be publish'd. III. A Sermon preach'd before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, in the Abbey Church, Westminster, on Saturday, January 30. 1730. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Robert Lord Bishop of Peterborough. IV. A Second Vindication of Chrift's Divinity: Or, a Second Defence of fome Queries relating to Dr. Clark's Scheme of the Holy Trinity: In Anfwer to the Country Clergyman's Reply; wherein the Learned Doctor's Scheme, as it now ftands, after the latest Correction, Alteration, and Explanation, is diftin&tly and fully confider'd by Daniel Waterland, D. D. Mafter of Magdalen College in Cambridge; and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majefty. The Second Edition, 8vo. V. Silva: Or, a Difcourfe of Forelt-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty's Dominions: As it was delivered in the Royal Society the 15th of October, 1662, upon Occafion of certain Quaries propounded to that Illuftrious Affembly, by the Honourable and Principal Officers and Commiffioners of the Navy. In two Books. Together with an Hiftorical Account of the Sacredness and Ufe of Standing Groves. Terra, a Philofophical Effay of Earth; being a Lecture in Course. To which is annex'd, Pomona: Or an Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees, in relation to Cyder; the Making, feveral Ways of Ordering it. Publifh'd by exprefs Order of the Royal Society. Alfo Kalendarium Hortenfe Or, The Gardener's Almanack; directing what is to do Monthly throughout the Year. By John Evelyn, Efq; late Fellow of the Royal Society. A TABLE of the ARTICLES Difcourfe of the History, Reli- gion, and Laws of the Jews. By the late Reverend and Learned W. Wotton, D. D. &c. communicated by Anthony Ham- II. A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, &c. by Charles Daubuz, M. A. &c. III. Sermons on feveral Subjects, being a conti- nuation of the Pofthumous Works of Samuel IV. The prefent State of the Cape of Good Hope, &c. Done into English from the Ori- V. Letters, giving an Account of feveral Con- verfations, &c. Written originally in French by Mr. St. Hyacinthe, F. R. S. THE PRESENT STATE OF THE Republick of Letters. For JANUARY 1731. ARTICLE I A DISCOURSE of the Hiftory, Religion, and Laws of the Jews. By the late Reverend and Learned W. Wotton, D. D. Author of the Reflections of ancient and modern Learning. Now first published from his Original Manufcripts. T HE great key which will lead us to the understanding of the Old Teftament, is the confideration that it directs us all along to a nobler difpenfation which is fet forth to us in the New. Chrift Jefus was the Lamb flain from the foundation of the world; for as foon as Adam and Eve had, by eating the forbidden fruit, loft their innocence in Paradife, from whence they were immediately thereupon JANUARY 1731. A thruft |