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    that have long since ceased . The sermon con < 5 lti < ies with a proper recapitulation . In the third , Dr . Paley represents meditating upon religion /' from Ps . lxiii . 7 . Here we find

    many thoughts that occur in the first discourse , and similar misinterpretations of scripture , on the subject of the Holy Spirit , to what are discoverable in the second . Before we proceed , we must observe that in Gal . v . 5 *

    the spirit means the gospel-dispensation as opposed to the Jlesh which signifies the Jewish . The fourth sermon , from 1 John , iii . 2 , bears as its title , of the state after death . " In the

    beginning of it the writer quotes our Lord ' s words to NicodSmus , ( John , iii . 12 ) . " If I have told yoii , &c . " and by heavenly things understands things which will pass in heaven : whereas , not only

    the context , but ,, moreover , the sense of the words in other parts of the New Testament shews , that by heavenly things are intended sublimer truths than he had just been stating . Much of the

    discourse is occupied in no very edifying illustration of the reasons why we know not what we shall be f and the conclusions at which Dr . P . at length arrives , are little

    distinguished either by originality or usefulness . This sermon , like the preceding , might have been advantageously omitted , and supplied by one more practical and interesting .

    Sermou the fifth , from the same text , has a double title . < 4 On purity of the heart and affections . Of th ? state afffcr death / ' It is a sort of moral improvement of the « W : its drift is that ( hose who hope to resemble Christ hereafter

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    in glory , must resemble h $ rr > no , w in punty ; nor i& it the IeasX valuable in the volume . ^ In the sixth ihe author treaty on ** faste for devotion / ' fronj .

    John iv . 23 , 24 * . This sermon , though particularly calculated foi members of the church of £ ugr land , may be read , never theless ^ with pleasure and advantage jxy Christians of all denominatiops . , The seventh discourse , Irorat

    Matt . ix . 13 , lays down " the doctrine of conversion . " We dpuUt whether by the text our tord meant any thing more than tWt he did not come to call the selfrighteous Pharisees to repentajicfa so much as those whom they deemed to be sinners . Our authors

    purpose is to shew that one clasfs of hearers need conversion , or aji entire and thorough change , an 4 another , improvement . And we meet with many pertinent remarks , accompanied , however , by Unit Kind oi erroneous scriptural criticism of which we gave an

    example under the fourth sermon * . We perceive , with satisfaction , that several of these discourses a ^ eon devotional subjects , Th , e eighth , from Luke v . 16 , is inlitled u prayer in imitation t pf Christ / ' A fulness of mental

    devotion is stfatfcd as the source pf pur Lord ' s visible piety ; and the operation of it is clearly represented . Without being remttrk ; -. abl y striking , this sermon h pl ^ i ^ , judicious , and of an useful tendency .

    " Filial piety' ia recommended in the ninth , from Gen . xlyii . . ^ . It ^ presents us with many just pUserv ^ tions en points in JPsep l )^ history , but enlarges ch ^ e f ^ a ^ n ^ very agreeably and instructively , on his duly acid affection to hit }

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 449, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/35/