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peat tliat the rule < c to him who hatb Jkc . " bears no relation to the present subject . 44 encountered by spiritual aid" is the theme of the three
succeeding discourses—the twentysi xth , twenty ^ -seventh and twenty , eighth , from Rom . vii . 24 . These are of much the same character
with those immediately foregoing . Dr . P . is still unsuccessful as a scripture critic ; and his whole reasoning falls to Ihe ground when it is seen , as every attentive reader
will see , that his text , on which he mainly relies , is descriptive of a very different case from what he imagines . We refer , for the true meaning of the passage , to Belsham ' s Review of Wilberforce > p .
44 . ( 8 vo . ) Our author is more himself in explaining 4 t the destruction of the Canaanites , " sermon the twenty-ninth , from Josh . x . 40 . Nor have we met with a better reply to the objection taken from this fact .
Neglect of warnings" is the useful subject of the thirtieth sermon , from Deut . xxxii , 2 J ) . This is a very judicious , serious and impressive , though not sufficiently copious , discourse . The
quotation in the concluding paragraph is from the works of the late Dr . Percival , and occurs also m our author ' s Natural Theology . ( p . 495 , 1 st ed . ) Sermon the thirty-first , from
Matt . xvi . 26 , is on " the terrors of the Lord , * which , like many of the titles , is far from being appropriate . It is a plain discourse , * ipd , iu the main , fitted to be useful .
Preservation and recovery from sin" are treated on in the thirty-second ; from Tit . ii . 11 , 12 .
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It is an eloquent ittfcr fefeib < c ? $ fc monition 44 to deny * ~ tihg ^ c | liifeg& " by reforming at fence , and bat gradually . ~ ^ { From Ps . cxix . 7 l , thepreadw er discourses , in sermon the thirty *
third , on " this life * ' as " a state of probation . " The ' fact is placed in several strong points of light , and we meet again with the author of Natural Theology . Our readers will be pleased , and we hope instructed ^ by the following extract :
"Of sickness we may remark how wonderfully it reconciles us to the thoughts , the expectation , and the approach of death , and how this becomes , in the hand of Providence , an example of one evil being made to correct another . Without question , the difference is wide
between the sensations of a person vmo is condemned to die by violence , and of one who is brought gradually to his end by the progress of disease ; and this difference sickness produces . To the chits * tian , whose mind is not harrowed up by the memory of unrepented guilt , rai calm and gentle approach of his disiOlution has nothing in it terrible , fa that sacred custody in which they tfeat sleep in Christ will be preserved , he sees a rest from pain and wearing from trouble and distress , " &c .
C The knowledge of one another in a future state" is the sub * ject of serfrion the thirty-fourth , from Col . i ^ 28 . This has been no uncommon topic of discourse from the pulpit : nor does out
author discuss it with particular success and originality ; though , toe certainly makes a good application of his doctrine . The sense which he puts upon Heb . xii . 2 Sj seems * to us to be incorrect . We
beg to refer to the Mon . Rep . vpk ii . pp . 142 , &c . ¦ :-44 The general resurrection" ifr the thetne of the thirty- $ ftl %$ pA last sermon , from John , v . x 8 > 2 £ >« Whoever has read Dr . Pale /*
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/38/
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