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the same time , proved , that consistent believers of the present day are capable of doing the same good with the primitive Christians ; and they are bound to make the attempt by gratitude to God , benevolence toman-kind , and a regard to their own honour and interest .
Some critical and doctrinal sermons now follow . No * XXYI . is " On the Phraseology of the Epistles " { I Cor . iL 1-2 * 13 . •* * c * Now we have received /* &c . ) By " comparing spiritual things with spiritual / ' Mr , K * understands a comparison , of the spiritual privileges of Christians with the spiritual privileges of Israelites . The object of
the discourse is to shew that this may frequently be seen in the epistles , and that--the-same terras ami phrases which were bnce applied by God bi in self , and by divine messengers , to the ; children of Israel , under the institution of the law ^ ane applied by the apostles to all Christians , under the institution of the gospel . Mr . K . has ,, in truth , here given an abridgment ,
though by no means a servile one , of Dr . Taylor ' s well-known Essay entitled " A Key to the Apostolic Writings /* which has also been lately presented to the world s on a reduced scale , by the Rev . Thomas Howef . We heartily wish success to all honourable methods of putting it into the hands of students in theology , and indeed of every Christian who is desirous of being able to give a reason of thehope that is in him . The phraseology of the New Testament in general , and of the
epistles in particular , can never be understood , while we are either ignorant of that of the Old , or superficially acquainted with it . There is no description of the ministers of religion to whom the Hebrew scriptures are so familiar as they ought to be ; and we are apprehensive that this branch of learning is but slenderly cultivated and encouraged even by those Protestamt Dissenters who profess to set the greatest value upon a theological education .
We are informed , by the Editor , that the seven following discourses , XXVII . to XXXIV , though drawn up in the form of sermons , were delivered as lectures to a class of young men . He further says : " The reader will perceive that , in various places , the author has closely followed the Essays on the Death of Christ , &e . published bv Dr . Priestley , under the name of
Clemens , in the Theological Repository . " Of this series of discourses the first is entitled , Repentance . and -reformation only required in order to acceptance with God : " ( Is . i . 16 , n , 18 . " Wash ye , make you clean / 7 8 cc ) If opens with some remarks upon the necessity of-doctrinal * It is erroneously printed , a Cor . xii . io . f ixmo . Exeter , i 3 oj *
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'Sit Kenrick ' s Sermons *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/32/
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