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por will it be easy , we conceive , to shake the principle fot which this writer pleads . The sermon would have been read with yet more satisfaction and advantage , had the allusions been explained , and the specific references been marked , by the Editor , at the bottom of the page . Ther . e is a sermon of Bishop * Hiird ' s upon a similar subject , ( Vol . III . No . XIV *) which will also repay perusal : indeed this prelate ' s moral and devotional" discourses are , in
general , . of uncommon , excellence . In the twenty-rthird sermon , Mr . K ; treats of € C the Mora { Sense /* from Ps . xv . 4 , " In whose eyes a vile person , &c from which words he observes , that good men are esteemed and honoured by thos £ of a like character . Having shewn that this esteem is the esteem of virtue for virtue , is bestowed upon no other property , and proceeds from no other cause , he
inquires how it comes to have any existence j and this fact he resolves into the moral sense , or conscience , which he regards as acquired ancj not instinctive , and the rise and progress and operation of which he traces with accuracy , and describes with energy and distinctness * The discourse concludes with some useful practical observations .
We are cautioned in sermon the twenty-fourth , ( from 2 Thess , ii . 10 , ' ? Because they received not , " &c . ) against < c indifference to religious truth / ' Mr . K . charges those with being indifferent to religious truth who will not inquire into the foundation on which it is built ; who , having acquired a knowledge of it , confine that knowledge to themselves , and who take no active measures to propagate Christian truth in the world , or to defend it against those by whom it is attacked . Un ^ er
these heads the reader will find many valuable remarks and pertinent illustrations ( particularl y that in p . 6 O , 61 , concern - ing the worship of Jehovah and of Baal ) ; nor is there any topic upon which the author writes with more clearness and force ; it appears to have been in perfect unison with his own cast of character .
That he loved and venerated truth for its subserviency- to virtue , is evident from his twenty-fifth serirxon , entitled " Christians the salt of the earth /* from Matt . v . 13 . " Ye are the salt , " &c . Here he takes occasion to shew how
Christians are qualified to produce the effect thus ascribed to them , and then einploys some considerations to induce them to exert
their powers to answer this useful purpose . Accordingly fa # examines what Christians believed , and how they acted , at the
time when they were called by our Lord the salt of th # earth * With their princi p les and conduct are contrasted those of the professed disci p les of Christ i $ succeeding ages : but it is , & %
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Kenriefc ' s Sermons . 311
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 311, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/31/
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