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father ,- We only wish that the author had pursued the subject at greater length , and brought it more immediately home to his hearers and readers .
The object of sermons the tenth and eleventh , from Ps . li . 3 , is to prevail with us u to think less-of our virtues and more of our sins . " Without subscribing to every
sentiment , or concurring in every criticism , found in these two discourses , we think highly of their design and execution . In this connection , we cannot
avoid declaring that those Christians who judge it tin scriptural to speak of being saved through the merits of Christ , are far from relying on their own merits , but
look for the mercy of God as manifested in the gospel and mission of their divine master , for everlasting life . u Salvation for penitent sinners" is the title of sermon the
twelfth , from Luke vii . 47 . — This , like many of our author ' s discourses , wants unity and application : it contains however proper remarks on the danger of insensibility to religion . The thirteenth , from Ex . xx . 5
is an excellent vindication of the Almighty ' s visiting the u sins of the fathers upon the children . " For perspicuity and happiness of method , and for critical and expository correctness , this -is the best sermon in the collection .
" How virtue produces belief , and vice unbelief , " is shewn in the fourteenth ,-from John vii 17 , To most of -the author ' s illustnu . lions of this fact we make no objection : but what he says on
supernatural assistance appears to us to be unwarranted by scripture ; and Matt , xiii , 12 , surely re-
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quires , as well as admits a Vetfy different explanation . This sermon is better than some of the preceding , in that it has a larger , a more appropriate and a more
useful application . 64 John ' s message to Jesus , " no very easy part of the gospel history , is considered in the fifteenth , from Matt . xi . 2 , 3 . Dr . P . ac
quiesces in the common solution of the difficulty , and thinks that the end of the message sent from the baptist to Jesus was to remove the doubts of his disciples , and not his own . Some observations
follow upon miracles , regarded as a proof of the divine mission of Christ . The subject is slightly treated ; and the sermon , which has ^ more of the air of a& essay or dissertation than of n popular discourse , need not have been
printed . The sixteenth , from Ps . xix . 12 , ISy is " on insensibility to offences . " Secret faults are
described as faults unknown to the offender himself : it is shewn , from the nature of hafcit , that such faults arc possible , and even probahle ; and from this view of the case some very instructive lessons ¦ are deduced .
In this selection of Dr . P . ' s sermons there is more of sameness than was either necessary or desirable . The seventeenth , for exampie , is on much the same topic with the first . and third : for it is
intitlcd " seriousness of ^ position necessary , * ' from Luke vii ) . 15 . Though the text is not very happily chosen , yet the subject is one pf those which the author treats with advantage , and even
with some variety . Discourses the eighteenth and nineteenth are , respectively , u '
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450 Rcpiewi— 'PaU ^ s SertutoH .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/36/
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