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sacrifice , is & weakness , riot a virtue : this desire may , howw ever , be excused , when we are called to very painful and laborious services , which occasion continual anxiety and exhaust the strength ; when men are afflicted-with violent pain , and the
agony is greater than hainan nature can hope to endure with patience ; when extreme , old age oppresses uts , and when the decay of the mind prevents us from communicating and , receiving happiness ; These cases may perhaps be admitted as exceptions , although , in general , the language of Christian piety will be , " All the days of my appointed time will I wait
' till my change come . " We are advised , at the conclusion of this discourse ^ in the happiest season of life , to keep ouFselves from being too much attached to it , and , in the most afflicted , not to-be ready to indulge discontent .
The next sermon , the thirty-eighth , represents the danger of bad company" ( L Cor . xv . 33 . Ci Be not deceived ; evil communications , " &c . ) Three reasons are offered whi < 2 h should induce us to avoid the society of immoral men . This
caution is necessary to preserve ourselves from being corrupted by them : it is requisite to prevent their morals from corrupting others ; and it is the most likely means of their reformation - In the illustration and enforcement of these arguments the good sense of the writer is remarkably conspicuous : we particularly
admire the discrimination with which he states the difference between avoiding the company of men in consequence of their pernicious manners , and avoiding it in consequence of their supposed pernicious opinions ; nor have we ofteia read a practical discourse of equal value . Sermon the thirty-ninth is a re-publieation , having been delivered , in the year 1793 , before the Society of Unitarian Chris
tians in the West of England . From Matt , xiii . 33 . " The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven ., " &c . the preacher infers , that the dominion of religious truth" will * ultimately ' * be universal and eternal ; ' and regarding the long-lost doctrine of the proper humanity of Christ as the doctrine of the gospel , he ventures to hope for its speedy prevalence , from the simplicity to which it is now reduced , from the conduct of those who embrace it in making an open profession of their faith ; and from the temper and circumstances of their
opponents . It is impossible to read this discourse , without entertaining a high opinion of Mr . K . ' s zeal and talents . Nor can . the hope which he professes be deemed extravagant . Ever keeping in view \ that cc one day is with the Lord as a thousand years , and a thousand years as one day , " we are justified in the belief that the unsophisticated proposition , " There is one
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Jkenrick ' s Sermons . $ 19
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/39/
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