Vox Ecclesim Anglicans: on the Church, Ministry, and Sacraments. By
George G. Perry, M.A. (Rivington.)—Mr. Perry's volume consists of extracts from the works of English divines referring to certain great topics of controversy, the Church, episcopacy, the priestly office, baptism, and the Lord's Supper. His authorities principally belong to the six- teenth and seventeenth centuries ; the latest in date being Waterland (1683-1740). He makes his selections carefully and fairly, very pro- perly disclaiming in his preface, which is written in a very temperate and charitable spirit, "any attempt to make a catena in the ordinary sense—that is to say, a chain of passages carefully selected from a long string of writers to support a certain statement or thesis." He adds useful summaries of the lives and writings of the authors from which he quotes. He makes, by the way, a strange mistake in speaking of South as a writer of the eighteenth century. South, it is true, died in 1715, being then 83 years of age, but his active intellectual life belonged to the preceding century. He was, in fact, almost exactly contemporary with Isaac Barrow, with whom, widely as he differed from him in style and character, he may be fairly classed. Mr. Perry has produced a useful volume, which, if we thought that anything could do them good, we would recommend to the Ritualists. They might note, among many other things, how that name of Protestant which they lose no opportunity of reviling is appropriated by divines whom even they profess to honour,
— by Morton, Bramhall, Cosh; and Jeremy Taylor.
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