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    -God , and one Mediator between God and tiratt , the in ^ £ brri $ t Jesys , " gains a wid ^ r diffusion an dincreasing credit . Sifccte

    the first ages , there never perhaps was a season virheti so many embraced it as the present ; and we are persuaded of it %% eingi 3 K > re generally the creed of the Christian world , if its frien q , s and advocates will only be just to their cause , and consistent with

    theroselves . The last sermon , the fortieth , bears ias its title t € * Paul ' s valedictory prayer explained atid improved : ' * this prayer 13 found , among other places , in 2 Theses , iii . 18- " The grace / 5 &c . is our author ' s text . He considers it as denoting that the blessings which Paul here wishes for are of high value , and

    that the apostles'friends were in danger of being deprived of them , or at least of having their value greatly impaired . Mr ,

    1 £ . then shews , that it may be offered with equal propriety for Christians of the present day , upon the same ground ; and he coaeludes with giving his audience appropriate and seasonable adnee ; proving himself , in this and in every foregoing discourse , a truly Christian preacher .

    We could with pleasure have made more numerous and longer extracts from the contents of these very estiniable volumes . But it was more consistent with the design of our review to give a short account of every sermon ; &nd we trust that , by this inanner of noticing them , we have at once evinced oiir own conviction of their merits , and inspired our readers with a wish to allot them a place in their respective libraries . Had the doctrinal and the practical discourses been printed separately from each other , in two distinct series , instead of

    being intermixed , with little or no apparent regard to any order whatever ; had greater care been bestowed upon the several titles ; and had the work been superintended , in its progress through a London press , by some friendTon the spot , who was anxious to testify his esteem for the author ' s memory ; with such aids , this posthumous publication would have been still

    more deserving of the regard of the Christian world . Taken altogether , it is a legacy to the cause of religious truth and virtue which the most enlightened and respectable friends of that cause will best appreciate . Some persons may

    probably be disposed to wish that there were a greater proportion of practical discourses in these volumes ; but we would rather see this defect ( if a defect it be ) supplied by an additional volume of devotional and moral sermons only , than consent to part , in a future edition , with any of the doctrinal onefe ; even though the most admirable practical compositions were to be substituted for them .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/40/