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    religious liberty , we sfrquld be glad to be convinced that Mr . Gandolphy is below the level of the priests of his communion , or that the priests are less enlightened and liberal than the laity .

    The Preface' is upon the whole modest , and more Catholic and less Romish ^ than the rest of the publication ; excepting indeed the use of the word conventicles , in connection with an allusion to

    modern fanaticism , p . 7 . In the evil sense of this word , a Roman Catholic Priest should know that it has never so much venom as when applied to a popish meetinghouse . We suspect , however , that Mr . Gandolphy , whose name

    would seem to import that be is a foreigner , does not enter into the nicer shades of meaning of English words ; and hence our surprise is somewhat abated at m # , ny inaccuracies in his style ancj many expressions which mi g ht otherwise be thought to indicate an intolerant spirit .

    The sermons are on the following subjects , —* The Necessity of Revelation i—VThe Evidence of a New Dispensation : — The Evidenpe of the Prophets : —The Evidence which Events offer for

    Chfristiajutyt—Tae Divinity of Jesus Christ , * It i $ impossible to analyze these discourses ; for Mr . Gandolphy doe ' s not argue , nor even declaim speciousl y : thread-bare maxims in vulgar language , quotations from

    a narrow set of writers , without felicity of selection or pertinence of application , appeals to , the scri ptures , with ail utter ignoj-a . nce of their connection and import , the boldest figures of rhetoric vyith an obvious ^ eggaxy of thought anxi la ^ U $ ft * * - ^ U < & . * R ^ the intt ^ jrial i s

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    with which the volume is constructed . The preacher aspi re * to the honour of combating philosophers without understanding philosophy , and addresses the passim ons of the multitude without a single qualification for popularly . The following is a favourablt specimen of the discourses :

    ( Malachias is the last of the prophets in £ he order of time -y and with himn at the distance of about 40 O years before Christ ,. closes that , long train of inspired characters , who for nearly 3000 years successively enlightened Israel . From that period reigns an unbroken s ' lenco * No prophet rises in Juda * fJudah ) ' t «

    address the . chosen people of God . An important moment is approaching— -all is hushed into a mysterious calm , a calm which even for an interval pervades $ he universe . At length the angel mentioned by the prophet , the Bapti st conning fprtk as the precursor /> f Christ ,

    proclaims his arrival to the Jews , -when he immediately appears , announcing himself the Son of Oq < i , the Messiah , and accomplishes in his own person all the prediction ' s of the ^ prbpfeets . He is bom amongst that people a king , he l ; ve £ amongst them a prophet , and he di es amongst them a victim , a saviour and a

    God . Agonizing , he exclaims with , d low voicCy All is consummated , and gives up the ghost . * Like Sampstoo , he again bursts the bonds of death , issues forth a God from his tomb ; and commands twelve poor friendless and dejected men

    to go and establish the Christian rcJigioir throughout the world . Go ; he says , persecution * shall be your bread , prisons your palaces , rack * your thrones and martyrdoms your crowns . Scarcely are the commands received than rhe whole

    world resounds With the n me of Jesus Christ who ; was cruciftcd ; their rapidity is Like to tjje rapidity of the torrent , an < J jthcir conquests like to the conquests of a mighty conqueror . * Pp . 8 ^—& * 4 .

    Mr . Gandolph y loads unbelievers with a , variety of epithets of vulgar reproiafch , &nd he warns his hearers against social intercdurse with c these demons incarnate . * ( p . 9 < 5 «) He is somewhat siil y ^

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    Review . —Gandolphy ' s Sermons 1 1 SJ

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/47/