ing the triumphant boast of the great Apostle :- Where is the wise, where is the scribe, where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

APPENDIX.

THE following extract was considered a very appropriate accompaniment to Mr. Robert Hall's celebrated defence of Christianity.

Nothing can be more honourable to the character of Jesus Christ than the character and conduct of Judas Iscariot, which furnish us with a strong argument for the truth of the Gospel,-How came it to pass, that he first betrayed his master, and then was so stung with remorse, as to put an end to his own life by hanging himself? How came he thus to own himself guilty of the vilest sin, if he knew that he had done an act of justice to the world, by freeing it from an impostor? For, if Jesus was not really what he professed to be, he deserved all, and much more, than Judas was the means of bringing upon him. Now, if there had been any base plot, any bad design, or any kind of imposture in the case, it must have been known to Judas, who had lived so long with Christ, and had even been intrusted with the bag, (which shows that he was not treated with any reserve,) and who was acquainted with our Saviour's most private life; and if he had known of any blemish in his character or conduct, he ought to have told it, and would have told it :-duty to God, to his own character, and to the world, obliged him to it; but his silence in this respect bears the most decisive testimony to Christ's innocence; Judas's death and perdition prove Christ's divine authority. See Dr. Ranken's Institutes of Theology, pp. 370-379, for a clear and masterly view of the testimony of Judas, as an evidence of Christ's innocence and divinity, and of the truth and inspiration of Scripture.

"The author cannot refrain from adding in this place the not less just and eloquent, and in fact inimitable, character of Christ, drawn by the hand of a master :-'I will confess to you that the majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the Gospel has its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers, with all their pomp of diction: how mean, how contemptible are they, com

pared with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book, at once so simple and sublime, should be merely the work of man? Is it possible that the sacred personage, whose history it contains, should be himself a mere man? Do we find that he assumed the tone of an enthusiast or ambitious sectary? What sweetness, what purity, in his manners! What an affecting gracefulness in his delivery! What sublimity in his maxims! What profound wisdom in his discourses! What presence of mind in his replies! How great the command over his passions! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation ?-When Plato described his imaginary good man with all the shame of guilt, yet meriting the highest rewards of virtue, he exactly describes the character of Jesus Christ: the resemblance was so striking that all the Christian fathers perceived it.

"What prepossession, what blindness, must it be to compare (Socrates) the son of Sophroniscus to (Jesus) the son of Mary! What an infinite disproportion is there between them! Socrates, dying without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was any thing more than a vain sophist. He invented, it is said, the theory of morals. Others, however, had before put them in practice; he had only to say, therefore, what they had done, and to reduce their examples to precept. But where could Jesus learn, among his competitors, that pure and sublime morality, of which he only has given us both precept and example?—The death of Socrates, peaceably philosophizing with his friends, appears the most agreeable that could be wished for; that of Jesus, expiring in the midst of agonizing pains, abused, insulted, and accused by a whole nation, is the most horrible that could be feared. Socrates, in receiving the cup of poison, blessed the weeping executioner who administered it; but Jesus, in the midst of excruciating tortures, prayed for his merciless tormentors. Yes! if the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God. Shall we suppose the evangelic history a mere fiction? Indeed, my friend, it bears not the marks of fiction; on the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such a supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty, without obviating it: it is more inconceivable, that a number of persons should agree to write such a history, than that one only should furnish the subject of it. The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction and strangers to the morality contained in the Gospel, the marks of whose truths are so striking and inimitable, that

the inventor would be a more astonishing character than the hero.'J. J. ROUSSEAU.

"What a mind! to conceive ideas so beautiful and so just! The divinity of the New Testament is displayed as with a sunbeam! But what a heart! to resist the force of all this evidence, to blind so fine an understanding, and be able to subjoin, as Rousseau did, I cannot believe the Gospel! The infidelity of this man, however, may be readily accounted for. He would not believe that Gospel, which (as we have already seen) prohibits all impurity and injustice, both in thought and in act; he LOVED darkness rather than light, because his deeds were evil. His whole life, as he unblushingly avowed in his 'Confessions,' was one continued series of falsehood and profligacy."-HORNE'S IN

TRODUCTION.

A

CATALOGUE OF THE WRITINGS

OF

REV. GEORGE STANLEY FABER, B. D.

The Origin of Pagan Idolatry,

Ascertained from Historical Testimony and Circumstantial Evidence. Plates. 3 vols. 4to, pp. 552, 504, and 682. London, 1816.

A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabrii;

Or, the Great God of Phoenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Thrace, Greece, Italy, and Crete; being an attempt to discover the several Orgies of Isis, Ceris, Mithris, Bacchus, Rhoe, Adonis, and Heceta, from an Union of the Rites commemorative of the Deluge, with the Adoration of the Host of Heaven. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 806. Plates. London, 1806.

A Dissertation on the Prophecies

That have been Fulfilled, and are Fulfilled, or will be hereafter Fulfilled, relating to the Great Period of Twelve Hundred and Sixty Years; the Papal and Mohammedan Apostates; the Tyrannical Reign of Antichrist, or the Infidel Power; and the Restoration of the Jews. To which is added an Appendix. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 490 and 420. London, 1806.

A General and Connected View

Of the Prophecies relating to the Conversion, Restoration, Union, and Future Glory of the House of Judah and Israel; the Progress