MISCELLANEOUS. 1.FArriery improv'd: Or, a com plete Treatife upon the Art of Farriery. Wherein is fully explain'd the Nature, Structure, and Mechanifm of that useful Creature a Horse, the Diseases and Accidents he is liable to, and Methods of Cure, fet down in as clear and intelligible a Manner as the Subject will admit of; the Use and Abufe of the Science difcovered, whereby any Gentleman may be able to judge for himself, whether or no he is impos'd upon by ignorant Grooms, and other Pretenders to this Art; together with many neceffary and ufeful Obfervations and Remarks concerning the Choice and Management of Horses; likewise an Account of Drugs and mixed Medicines ued in Farriery, with fome remarks upon the Genuineness, Adulteration, and their feveral Prices, fet down alphabetically at the End of the Work. By Henry Bracken, M. D. To be had of the Author, at his House in Lancafter; Mr. J. Hopkins, at Preflon, in Lancashire; J. Clarke and J. Shuckburgh, in London. pr. 10 s. 6 d. 2. 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Price 1 s. 6d. bound in Sheep, and 2 s. in Calf. 3 The true Narrative of the Cafe of Jofeph Rawfor, who was excommunicated by the Congregation of Proteftant Diffenters meeting at Caftle-Gate, Nottingham, fign'd by the Paftors and other Office-Bearers of that Church; together with a prefatory Dscourse, and a Plea for the Right of Rel gious Societies to excommunicate heretical and unruly Meinbers. By James Slofs, M. A. Sold by J. Ofwald, J. Davidson, and Alexander Crude, in London; and Thomas Collier, in Nottinham, pr. Is. 4. A Defence of the Moral Philofo pher, against a Pamphlet, entituled> The Immorality of the Moral Philofopher. By the Author. Printed for 7. Roberts, pr. 6 d. 5. Mr. Whifton's Jofephus, Folio, in English, complete. Any of Mr. Whifton's Subfcribers who produce his Receipt for the firft, and make their fecond Payment, may fend for their Books, perfect, in Sheets, according to his Propofals. 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Clarke, Dr. Hancock, Mr. Whiston, Dr. Turner, Dr. Butler, Dr. Woodward, Mr. Derham, Dr. Ibbot, Bp. Leng, Dr. J. Clarke, Archd. Gurdon, Dr. Burnet, Dr. Berriman. With a general Index. By Gilbert Burnet, Vicar of Coggefhall, Effex. Printed for Me Bettefworth and Hitch, at the Red Lion in Pater-nofter Row: And may be had of the Editor, at his House on Clerkenwell-Green in London. F AS A S the Abridgment of the Philofophical Tranf actions has been always esteemed a fingular Benefit to Literature, whereby a vaft Treasure of it has been put into the Poffeffion of many, who otherwise could never have had an Opportunity of obtaining it; fo one of the usefulleft Projects that has ever been executed in favour of Chriftianity, is this Epitome of the Boylean Lectures, which must be allowed to be a Collection of the nobleft Apologies for Natural and Revealed Religion that the World was at any time bleft with. The Originals have not only spread thro' our own Nation, but have been the Admiration and Delight of Foreigners, who import them into their feveral Countries as an invaluable Acquifition; and for the fake of perufing them, and fome other of our Writings upon divine Subjects, are at the pains of learning our Language. But with all their Excellencies it cannot be denied, that they are too voluminous for many to read, and of too great a Price for many to purchase: and I may add, fome of them very dif ficult to be come at. There was ftill therefore fomething wanting to render them more univerfally ferviceable, and diffuse the Advantages that may be reaped from them; and the Accomplishment of this was the more defirable, by reafon of the unhappy Spread of Atheism and Infidelity, against which they are the most powerful Antidotes, and for which they will be found effectual Remedies by fuch as fincerely apply them. Nothing could be done fo conducive to this purpose, as an Abstract of these inestimable Difcourfes; fuch as this before us, where the Argument is fuffered to retain its entire Force, and the Reduction is of those things only, which, though they greatly adorn the Subject, contribute little, if any thing to the real Weight of it. This, one of the moft eminent Prelates of the Kingdom was well appriz'd of, and upon this Confideration urg'd the Reverend and Worthy Editor to undertake it; and I The prefent Bishop of London. may may venture to fay, the Performance has been honoured with his Lordship's Approbation. As the feveral Treatifes, whereof this Collection confifts, follow in the Order of the Sermons from whence the Materials of them are taken, the first Volume of it begins with A Confutation of Atheism, by the celebrated Dr. Bentley. Here we have a juft, a lively and affecting Profpect of the forlorn and miferable Condition of the Atheist; and, on the other hand, no less beautiful a Representation of the Pleasures arifing from a due Sense of the divine Existence and Providence, and of the benign Influence of Religion upon Communities and Governments. This admirable Author evinces the Being of God from the Faculties of the human Soul, which he proves to be those of an immaterial Subftance; and from the organical Structure of our Bodies, which are, as he fays, unquestionably the Work of a moft wife, powerful and magnificent Maker. And as Atheifts have contrived many Subterfuges to evade this Proof of a Deity, he impartially proposes them in all their Strength, and then as fairly refutes them in their due Order. He goes on afterwards to examine all the Reasons and Explications of their Account of the Production of Mankind; which he has at the fame time fo demonftratively confuted, as to render the leaft Confidence in them for the future inexcusable. Another Evidence of a Deity that he enlarges on, is, the Frame and Syftem of the inanimate Creation. And by a Train of invincible Reasoning, he proves it impoffible,that theSyftem orFrame of the World fhould be eternal; or that Matter can have born an infinite Duration paft, or Motion coexifted therewith eternally. Or that even allowing Matter to be eternal, in the Epicurean way, and Motion coequal with it, that Atoms of themselves could ever by all Kinds of Motion have fallen into this or fuch-like visible System: And then he fhews, à pofteriori,that the Order and Beauty of the inamimate World, the difcernible Ends and final Causes of the feveral Parts of it, and a Meliority in the whole above what was neceffary, force us to acknowledge it the Work of a wife and benevolent Being. Throughout the Difcuffion of these curious Topicks, there appears an extraordinary Degree of phyfical and mathematical Knowledge, and a furprizing Sagacity in the Application of the Principles of those Sciences for the Establishment of the first and most important Grounds of Theology. The fecond thing we find in this Volume is, A De monstration of the Meffiah, by Bishop Kidder. This is principally levelled at the Jews. And this Prelate evidently fhews, " that thofe People do not want fuf"ficient Means of Conviction; and that they have "as much Reason to own Jefus for a true Prophet, as they have to own Mofes to be one; and that the "fame Arguments by which the Jew is convinced "that Mofes was a true Prophet, will convince him "that Jefus is the Chrift; moreover, that the four "Gofpels are (to say the lowest) as credible as the "five Books of Mofes." Having made good thefe Points, our Author proceeds to enquire into the Causes of the Jewish Infidelity; which do not, as he clearly manifefts, arife, cither from any thing in our Religion, or from invincible Ignorance in them; but from their carnal and worldly Temper, their Malice and Obftinacy, their Pride; from their overvaluing of Rites and Inftitutions, their implicit Belief of their Scribes and Pharifees; and lastly, from a too great Opinion of their traditional or oral Law. These were the ill Qualities of their Hearts, and the Errors of their Conduct, for which they were abandoned of God, and hardened. After expatiating upon thefe Heads, our Author infifts upon the Reafons of their continued Obftinacy in rejecting the Gospel Dispensation. And lastly, He proposes the Objections urged by the Jewish Rabbi's to juftify their Disbelief of the Evangelical History; and then offers a Variety of Confiderations, whereby they are entirely enervated. The |