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^ f edt ti rc ; s ,-Mndt & tfespotfe tfrant ;* ana his reasoning on this ctoii ' nd seer as , in general , to be Sncohlrovertiule ; but when ne tia-£ ar < 3 s sdch Wtai ' aiks as the
following , Ee musVVot fee surprised if they find . a less ready acquiescence : " whenever they [ the creatur ^ s } prove d&iTgerotts and hiiitful to us , we should Lrlame ourselves , arid not thom . We should remember that when man in
Paradise ceased to be obedient to his Maker , his apostacy was just ly followed Uy the rebellion of those creatures , 6 verwhi £ h , when
innocent ^ he had an unresisted command . Therefore when they are stubborn and refractory ^ we should not forget that the fall of man was the cause : and if we
have any seBse of our own condi - tion 5 j / nature , or hope of mercy ourselves , the remembrance will Arrest the Uplifted arm of Crnelty . "~^ Few , it is to he feared , will be the itisfances of restraint
froln the cruel ttsage of ^ Tiy stubborn and refractory beasts produced by this reflection . Mete pertinent is the observation , that ** the righteous man , ( who , as Solomon remarks , regardeth the
life of his beast , ) knowing that Bis beast is equally sensible of pain with himself , will not use it in a way he could not justify , if that beast could expostulate with him for cruelty and ingratitude . '
The preacher , in the next place , animadverts on that cc profanation of the Christian sabbath ^ by which the cattle are most cruelly deprived of that rest , which a God of mercy hath strictly com-
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mamlecl us to allow them : *>—«? fjtf $ is certainly a growing evil * , that ^ &Hs fot more atteivtioti thfcn is cofiiifeotily pa ? d to it ; arid \ ve shall rejoice to see if frequently brought before the notice 6 f the
p&blic and severely reproved . The benevolent preacher sfig . matizes , inbreover , 66 a veiy re . cent species of cruelty , vvhich exceeds everj T thing of the kind we have ever heard of : —That
the horse-, " says he , 4 C whith so nobly excels in courage and strength , should be forced by its mercenary owner to go [ in a limited time , ] a distance incredible without proof , —is an act of barbari&m highly disgraceful to civi - lized Britain : *—And of this
cruelty he specifies , in a note , a most horrid instance * Upon the whole , this sermon ( allowance being made for some exceptionable , because as they appear to us unscriptural notions , ) is well adapted to the Occasion on which it was delivered .
The title page informs us , that it was preached at the request of the Reverend Henry Brindley , of Lacock , Wilts ; and we understand that Mr . Brindley is the worthy clergyman who , in the year 1799 , instituted a Lecture on the Sin of Cruelty towards the Brute Creatures , which was
delivered for the first four years at Bath , and since that time , has been preached at many different places ^ The compliment which he pays those clergymen , who arc so obliging as to undertake the office , is Three Guineas a Lecture ,
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* 28 S Sett&w . '—A-Sefhtoit , W Cfuifty to tfi&tth Crtafurit .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 288, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/42/
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