THE

INVESTIGATOR;

OR,

Quarterly Magazine.

VOL. V.

JULY AND OCTOBER, 1822.

"Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things
are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report."

EDITED BY

THE REV. WILLIAM BENGO' COLLYER, D.D.

LL.D. F.A.S.

THE REV. THOMAS RAFFLES, LL.D.
(OF LIVERPOOL,)

AND

JAMES BALDWIN BROWN, ESQ. LL.DE

LONDON:

Printed at the Caxton Press, by Henry Fisher.

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1822.

PREFACE.

THE EDITORS cannot present another Volume of their Work to the Public, without returning their thanks for increased support, and respectfully soliciting its extension. In the present day their object is peculiarly important, and will, they flatter themselves, commend itself to the cordial support of every friend to the connection which ought to be maintained between sound Literature and pure Religion. The Fac-similes of Autographs of eminent men, introduced within the last year into this work—the Portrait presented to their readers with the present number—and the extension of their American correspondence, will, they trust, prove the sincerity of their professions, that no efforts will be wanting on their parts to render their Journal worthy of the public support, which they earnestly solicit.

CONTENTS TO NUMBER IX.

BIOGRAPHY.

Memoir of the Life of the Rev. JOHN COTTON, formerly of

Boston, N. E.

ESSAYS, &c.

Translation of the Cinghalese Book, called Rajewaliye,

(Rájávali) a History of Ceylon, compiled from the

Historiographic Records of the Kingdom. Part III.

Communicated by Sir ALEXANDER JOHNSTONE, Knt.

late Chief Justice of that Island

Illustrations of various Passages of Scripture, selected from

different Authors

Letter from the Rev. GEORGE CORNELIUS GORHAM, in

Vindication of DEAN MILNER, formerly President of

Queen's College, Cambridge

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On the different Methods in which the Talents and Opportu-

nities of all Christians ought to be employed

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Five Letters from the Rev. JOHN BERRIDGE to the Rev.

Mr. Woodgate, with a short Notice of the Writer

The Rev. JOHN WESLEY to Mr. Gillespie

79

REVIEW.

DREW, on the Being, Attributes, and Providence of God

AUGUSTUS; or, the Ambitious Student