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REVIEW.
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cerning the truth founded in a satisfying apprehension kncf judgment , concerning the evidence which proves it to b 6 true ; in due dispositions or affections of the heart , according to the true nature and value of the subjects presented to us ; in a
stiitable determination of the choice , and a correspondent conduct of the life , agreeable to such reasonable determinations . This is that religion which effectually new-moulds and forms the man : this is that religion which is likely to stick by hirin , and carry him uniformly and perseveringly through all duties arid all events . This is a religion consonant to the constitution of
man as a reasonable creature . Such is that religion whifch Christ propagated among men ; and this was his constant method of propagating it—to put men upon considering carefully and judging fairly of those things which they have seen and heard . Would to God , that such only had been the religion of Christians , and such only the method of persuasion employed by all who have proposed to teach Christianity . VlGILIUS PoSTHUMUS ,
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ARTICLE I . Sermons for the Use of Families . By Edmund Butcher * . Vol . 11 . Johnson , 1 * 805 .
Family-sermons are , we suppose ^ difficult of composition : many of our divines have tried their hands at them ^ and few , very few , have succeeded . T ^ he eagerness of the public for
themj however , bears an exact proportion to the rareness of their excellence ; and hence we see every day new adventurers in this path of fame . One might almost wonder at this appetite for sermons for the family and closet among the English , who are accustomed to hear more of them than any other
people from the pulpit . It arises from a happy prejudice in their favour . They are accounted a necessary p ^ irt of a domestic library . They are decorous Sunday-riding , and we learn from infancy to respect them , from seeing them in the hands of such as are venerable through age or character---parents , preceptors ^ or guardians . Sermons are associated in
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544 Butcher's Sermons .
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< c still pleas ' d to praise , yet not afraid to blame , Pope * [ Writers and Booksellers desirous of having tlieir Publications noticed early ill the Review of the Monthly Repository , are requested to send them ^ as soon as they appear , to the Editor , at the Printer ' s . ]
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 544, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/40/
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