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tlie aocirine of eternal lif p , and the author of this doctrine oflife was the light of men . And the light shineth in darkness , and the darkness hati * not overtaken it , so as to extinguish it " In going through this work we have felt the want of a table of contents .
Our remarks are not intended to disparage the Selections , but simply to ascertain critically their true merits ; and also , we confess , to suggest hints by which they- may in another edition be improved . We refer with confidence to a future edition , because we conceive that the growing taste of the public for rational theology will occasion this and similar works to be
received with avidity . Mr . Browne is evidently a critical reader of the Scriptures , and we should rejoice to see him employed upon a work which is much wanted , and which would form a proper sequel to the present one , naitiely , a complete New Testament , embracing all the improvements of late translation ^ and modern criticism .
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ARTICLE IT * Discourses chiefly on Devotional Subjects 9 by the late Revm Newcome Cappe to which are prefixed Memoirs of his f * ife , by Catherine Cappe , 8 vo . 9 s . Johnson and Mawman . X Concluded from pag& $ 1 *\
In the succeeding sermons on the evil influence of a love for pleasure it is observed , that devotion is not the characteristic of the age . Sinful pleasure , however , should be carefully distinguished from moral , nor perhaps is any pleasure sinful when not carried to an extreme . Virtue and vice therefore ought
always to have different words ; for even pride and anger may be excesses of good principles , which if limited by reason , benevolence , and the love of God , may not be censurable but praise-worthy . But when the love of pleasure is set in opposition to the love of God , it must be understood to mean either
the gratification of a vain imagination by the giddy and the gay , or that pf the inferior appetites by the internperatey the gluttonous , the carnal , and the debauched . Either diverts the attention of the mind from the works , the
character , and the word of God ; even the dissipated are indisposed for such pursuits , and between profligacy and piety there is a total incongruity which opposes the union . The gay arc not serious enough , and the wicked have neither taste nor inclination ; the hearts of both become insensible to every thing
moral or religious ; the love pf pleasure naturally tends to render 'the-mind narrow and selfish , ' and at length completely sensual . Persons of a licentious conduct have often libertine principles ; they love darkness rather than light , because their deeds are
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Capped Discourses . 93
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 93, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/37/
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