Prothero’s “Psalms in Human Life.”
—This interesting book is now published by Messrs. Nelson & Sons, in their Shilling Library. The book has already been noticed in these pages, and though we do not accept everything within its pages, yet the book throws much light on the extraordinary influence of the Psalms in all departments of human life.
Stephen Charnock.
—In a very interesting sketch of this eminent Puritan divine which appeared in the October number of the Gospel Magazine, we cull the following tribute by a contemporary to his great work on the Divine Attributes:—”After he had demonstrated the being and existence of God, his sun set before he had gone over all His transcendent excellencies and perfections. The last subject he treated on and finished was the patience of God. He was looking what to say next of the mercy, grace, and goodness of God, which he is gone to see and admire; for he found that which he most looked and longed for, the mercy of our Lord Jesus unto eternal life in heaven, where he shines now. Indeed, all the while he was upon the attributes of God he moved with that extraordinary strength and celerity—it was an argument of his near approach unto his centre, his everlasting rest; and if it be true, as some say, that the soul doth prominere in morte, his words were too true predictions, and from his soul, when he said ‘That concerning divine patience would be his last sermon, which the Lord grant might prove salvation to all that heard him’.”