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expecting miracles . Under the third , 1 st . The sword of tfre Lord and of Guideon have ever been combined in the defence of Great Britain ; 2 d . The happy effects of their combination * Under the fourth , l st . We should feel gratitude , not presumption ; 2 d , It is decent to express it .
After this tedious outline we shall relieve the reader with a theological pleasantry of the author ' s ( putting it , for the sake of perspecuity , into italics ) , which would have suited the days of Matthew Henry ( we derogate nothing from the respectability of that excellent man , we speak only of the age ) , but which the correct taste of the present times will not endure .
" It is pleasant to see the ease with which the Deity suspends the operations , and destroys the purpose of an unprincipled tyrant ^ aiming only at ; unbounded dominion 3 and who is not moved with pity and indignation to see a worm of the dust attempting to disannul the judgment of God ? " The sword of the Lord / ' drawn in our recent
deliverance , defeated and limited the ambitious plans of our adversary . Hoiv contemptible tile " will" of man looks when p laced by the siae of the cf shall 1 9 of God ! The one exclaims , I want snips , colonies , and commerce , and I win , have them ] ' The answer of God is delivered in the thunder and the desolation of battle—" He shall not coine into this
city , nor shoot an arrow there , nor come before it with shields , nor cast up a bank against it . " And at the very moment in which he was hurling proud defiance against divine and human power , a third part of his navy was rent from him and destroyed . " We smiled on reading Mr . C . ' s enumeration of the privileges which cc Britons have to fight for "—the Gospel—civil and religious liberty—and a combination of many comfdrts . Attached to the sermon is " An Address in behalf of the
Patriotic Fund , " which runs in a strain of importunity that scarcely befits the suspicious nature of that novel charity . Our limits oblige us to come to a close ; we shal 1 only add , that ihe discourse contains some passages of vigorous eloquence , but that as a whole it is weakened by the discursive manner in which the subject is treated , and the minute divisions and subdivisions into which it is broken down .
[ We regret that we are obliged to omit , for -want of room , the review of ths ~ Sermons of Dr . Young and Rabbi Hirschell on the same occasion ; they shall , without fail , appear in our next number . Editor *}
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ALDERMAN SKINNER . —We lament that we are called on to record the death of this amiable private citizen and respectable magistrate . He expired on
Thursday , January 30 , 1806 , in the . 68 th year of his age ; he was brought up among the Protestant Dissenters , and till he became a public man , remained in their
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/50/
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