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frow , the apparatus of war was constantly engaging " the public eye , and rumours of war were perpetually harrassing the public ear , and when no way seemed open to the pacification of the belligerent powers . At the present time , indeed , it might be hot unaptly adopted by the inhabitants of the Continent with relation to the Augustus of France .
The author avows in an advertisement ^ that he publishes his discourse as ' a tribute of affectionate respect to the governanent of his country / ' and as a testimony of the loyalty of Protestant Dissenters * In this latter view we trust its publication is not necessary ; in the former it is certainly not ill-judged of Mr . Collyer . Judges vii , 2 O . The sword of the Lord and of Guideon .
Buonaparte ' s late victories on the Continent are unexampled for their rapidity and extent ; Mr . Collyer ' s sermon opens with a description 6 f them , in which our imagination is so hurried from scene to scene , and from metaphor to metaphor , that we are glad in the fourth page to come to a pause ; though his conclusion , there expressed , is neither very intelligible nor , as to this country , very honourable .
< x While the balance of Europe is destroyed for the present . Great Britain alone weighs down the enormous preponderance of French power , and checks the prodigious strides of French ambition . " We understand not how the power of France can be
enormously preponderant when it is weighed down by the power of Great Britain ; and if it is the power of Britain that weighs down every other power , then against her alone does the charge lie of destroying the balance of Europe ! This technical phrase , the balance of power , suits not the pulpit , it should be confined
to the benches or St . Stevens ; though there our senators will be sparing in the use of it , when they call to mind that the perpetual parrot-like repetition of it by one of the most
distinguished orators of the last century , acquired him the appellation , not very dignified , of the balance-master . From the text the preacher deduces four positions ; the superintendance of Providence , the necessity of human exertion , the happy effects of their combined influence , and the
gratitude we should feel for their success . Under the first head he observes , that the sword of the Lord is made bare in 1 st . The maintenance of empires amid the ills which threaten them : 2 d . In the defeat and limitation of human
ambition ; 3 d- In raising instruments and employing' means to effect these purposes . Under the second , 1 st . The lawfulness of self-defence ; 2 d . the duty of not ligbtly esteeming nor easily relinquishing the privileges we enjoy ; 3 d . The necessity of no $
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Thanksgiving Sermon . 105
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/49/
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