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seems to haVe continued for many centuries . The Consideration , however , upon which he seems to lay the principal stress is that of the good or the evil effects likel y to arise from the ob * . servanceor the disuse of the practice . It it be not observed in younger life , it will frequently not be observed at all . It might have beefr added that , under proper limitations ,
nothing appears more desirable than to impress young minds with th ^ truths of rel igion , in some measure , through their senses . The eleventh sermon is an enquiry into the best method of communicating religious knowledge to young men , " from Tit ii . 6 . " Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded . ) This truly admirable discourse was greached before an assembly of Protestant-dissenting ministers , at Exeter , in the year 1788 , and was published shortly afterwards at their request . The plan pursued and recommended by the author was that of dividing the younger members of a religious society into classes , and delivering to them a course of instruction on the evidences ,
&c . &c of religion , adapted to their several ages and respective degrees of proficiency . This undertaking is here urged with much originality of illustration and force of argument . IMscourse the twelfth is also a republication , being an "
Address to young men , " at the conclusion of a course of lectures , such as we have just mentioned : it was printed at Exeter in the year 1 / 794 or 1795 , but was not , we believe , generally circulated : its appearance therefore in the present volumes will
be particularly gratifying to the reader . It consists of a succession of most valuable counsels , in nearly the order of the general subjects of the lectures , upon devotion , the regard due to the gospel , the study of the scriptures , the necessity of acquiring early and fixed principles of conduct , the positive
institutions of Christianity , the obligations of Protestant-dissenters , tfnd , in conclusion , the most useful kind of reading . Upon a devotional temper , Mr . K . writes as follows , like one whose language flows copiously and warmly from his heart : —
€ C Happy is the naan who has acquired such a tempers who is actuated by a rational fervent piety I He delights as much in the ordinances of religion as others do in then ; business or pleasures ; he con * - nects the pleasing idea of God with every object in nature , and with every thing which occurs . He has obtained an effectual security from sinfol practices , a powerful inducement to all good works , and a fund of continual joy . ** ^
In sermon the thirteenth , " natural and moral evil * are ** considered with reference to the infinite benevolence * of the Deity / 1 and •¦ *? conclusions" / ere drawn u from this diving attribute" ( The text , Job ii . 10 . " Shall we xoijeive good /'
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/43/
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