O REMARKS ON THE CHARACTER AND WRITINGS OF JOHN MILTON; OCCASIONED BY THE PUBLICATION OF HIS LATELY DISCOVERED TREATISE ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. 4 William Ellery Channing. FROM THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER FOR 1826. Third Edition. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY BENJAMIN PERKINS AND CO. JOHN MILTON. A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone. By JOHN MILTON. Translated from the Original by CHARLES R. SUMNER, M. A. Librarian and Historiographer to His Majesty, and Prebendary of Canterbury. From the London Edition. Boston. 1825. 2 vols. 8vo. THE discovery of a work of Milton, unknown to his own times, is an important event in literary history. The consideration, that we of this age are the first readers of this Treatise, naturally heightens our interest in it; for we seem in this way to be brought nearer to the author, and to sustain the same relation which his cotemporaries bore to his writings. The work opens with a salutation, which, from any other man, might be chargeable with inflation ; but which |