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Rabbies . So various and so opposite are the characters * which in ' tho&e . performances our Lord is made to- sustain ^ and the dialects which he is made to speak . " " As it is riot enough for the Christian minister , that he be
instructed iri the science of theology , unless he has the skill to apply his knowledge ^ to answer the different purposes of the pastoral charge / ' the Lectures of the next and third Series turn on
pulpit eloquence , under the fol - lowing heads . I . Importance of the Study and objections against it answered . —Helps for the attainment of the art . II . Of the
sentiment in Pulpit Discourses . IIL Of the Expression . IV . Of Pronunciation . V . Discourses distributed into various kinds , as addressed to the understanding , the imagination , the passions and the will , VI . Of the
composition of Lectures . N . B . A mode of Exposition , generally prevalent in the church of Scotland . VjL Of Explanatory Sermons . The choice of Subjects and of Texts . VIII . Of Explanatory Sermons--The
Introduction—Exposition of the Text—Partition of the Subject . Unity a principal requisite in the Subject—how this is to be observed . Offences
against Unity . IX . Of Explanatory Sermons . — How the branches should be arranged and treated . —Of the Style . —Technical language to be avoided and that of the Scripture preferred . — Abuse of Scripture Style . —Of the Conclusion . X . Of
Controversial Discourses . — -Candour and Simplicity ever to be studied in Jhe defence of truth , XI . Of Commendatory Discourses ^ or * hose addressed . to ' the imagina-
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tion . Xri . Of Pathetic Dis . courses , or those addressed to the Passions . Of Persuasive Discourses , 6 r such as are intended to operate on the Will . From this analytical survey of the subjects discussed in these Lectures , the student and young divine will obviously see the connection , which they have with his pursuits ; and the importance
of them , in the hands of an en * lightened and judicious mind , such as was eminently that of Dr . Campbell , cannot but affect him . It is indeed , a distinguishing excellence , tbat pervades these . Lectures * that the reader is called oix
to think for himself , not to bow to the authority of a great name : he is invited and encouraged to make his own researches and not to trust to the investigations made for ^ him by others . They can scarcely be perused with care and
attention , without inspiring the mind with the spirit of intellectual freedom and vigour , with which the author writes ; and
which is not to be much expected from nor i& generally found in , a minister of any religious , establishment : especially , where" the proceedings of jits synods and general assemblies have , even ia
these times , shewn in several instances , a disposition to enforce with vigour , the dogmas and principles of the Kirk ; without much regard to that " libeity , wherewith Christ has made us fre £ . "
We cannot conclude this article without giving some further specimens of our authors , manner , of the judgment , and precision with which he writes . His remarks on " Perspicuity " merit the attcntien of the young divine , ,
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Review . —Campbell ' s Lectures on Systematic Theology . 235
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/39/
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