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clusively . Another class to which he appeals are those foufide& upon a desire of obtaining some personal benefit , or of avoiding some personal evil ; and those Which are built Upon what Hartley stiles rational self-interest * " In motives taken from love to men , he finds a third class , and a fourth in those which
are resolvable into a regard to God * By a copious and happy citation of passages from the gospels , he shews that Christ em * ployed these motives in his discourses ; whence he infers the excellence of the gospel , and the obligation of Christian mini * sters to enforce moral duties by all the sanctions which their Master used .
The second sermon in this series is from Eph . Vi . 11 * , ( Put on the whole armour of God" ); and here our author proves * that the motives insisted on by the apostles in their discourses and writings may be reduced to the four heads already mentioned ^ with the addition only of conscience . This is largely shewn with respect to the love of honour ^ and a regard to hap * piaess in a future life .
In discourse the seventeenth ( the third of this set , and from the same text with the foregoing ) , the illustration is continued ^ and is extended to the principles of benevolence , a regard tc > the will of God , and obedience to the dictates of conscience . This part of the subject is treated with singular care and judgment .
The eighteenth sermon ( the last upon this topic ) has ' fat its text , Heb . vi . 1 . " Therefore , leaving the principles , ' * &c * and consists of inferences from the illustrations , &c . in the three preceding . They are ( 1 ) a strong presumption of the divine origin of the gospel , ( 2 ) the true manner of preaching it , ( 3 ) thepropefr standard whereby to judge and improve our own character , and the means to which we must have recourse , in order to be for *
tified against temptation , and excited to the practice of duty * Wg have read these four sermons with more than common admiration j and much should we rejoice to see them reprinted , with the consent of the editpr , &c . in a separate pamphlet , with the view of being more generally circulated . By every man who is desirous of learning what Christianity is , they will be
greatly valued . We cannot forbear making a short extract . c ( What Paul meant by f ^ preaching Christ Jesus the Lord / was , if we may judge from his exaffiple , to preach his religion after the model prescribed by himself , and not to be always insisting upon the excellencies of Christ ' s person , the greatness of his love , or the merit of his
supposed atonement . This is what many now understand by preaching Christy but it was not the primitive method . It supposes either that the main object of the Christian religion is to do honour to Christ * whereas he himself tells us that he sought not his own glory ; or else it supposes that the most powerful motive to the discharge of our duty
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Kenrick s Sermon * . 307
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/27/
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