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the road many stages of rest and accommodation , yet these are no moire than caravansef as , or inns ; places of occasional rcteption-ahd refresh rnept for the weary traveller » ^ ho is stilt passing on riothef seek
to a country , ing a better , and a more lasting habitation ^; It were well , if , in each of these pl a ces p £ i ; est > these internals ot relaxation from toil and fatigue , ifr ^ Were to ereci a ; pillar of remembrance , a rnonujhent of praise , inscribed— -To the Almighty Preserver f
" As vve pass along the road of life , we perceive many objects on , the right hand , and thb left , on which , in large , arid legible characters , we re ^ d tri e awful memento , of iteath , pointing to the graved £ he Irouse appointed [" . * fdr all Xhe trein the
living ' . aged e Foyest , the falling'leaf , the mouldering tower , the declining day , the waning , rnoo ^; jye may contemplate ^ ' yts s 6 many expres ^ ye emblems oFfrur mortal deca # . W * $ e we behold the suii in his diurnal course , rising and setting , -without pause or
intermission , we are reminded that our days are posting away with the utmost celerity and" speed . rthe wheels of nature never stand stSH ; ' The grand pendulum of .. time , recording the moments ' as ttiey fly > vibrates with a perpetual motion . The index that marks ; the rapid succession Of the passing hours , enables us to count the number of our days ^ arid with minute exactness , to calculate the sum Th
of ^ our advancing years . ese stre faithful , monitors , warning us , tjiat we are going * the way whence we shall not return . * ' We are travelling , * as it is eloquently expressed , « directly to the
house of death , whose , doors lie open at all hours and to all persons : for this tide of man's life , after it once turn * and declines , ever runs with a perpetual eab and falling stream , but never flows again . Our leaf once fallen , springs no more . " " Pp . 4 eo , 401 .
, We « Qlose our extracts with a passage from the last sermon ( No . x * $ i v . ) on . the State of th ^ \ Vop 141 in ^ he Eighteenth Century : " ' ^ Thciagc of reasdn and philosopky / the golden age of Christianity ,
ofwiidom , virtue and benevolence , is not yet r « ffiSB « di" ' We m m ^ HWHn be ^ fnt Sii ^ j ^ pAilMK V ^^ wt aepraSred . 8 ut ^ y » oci ^ pcrfcciidris ^ fn ^ ida in ^^ t ^
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press ^ on broken , and c the wolf and the lamb V feeding together . The gJocwny and fanatical spirit of ( superstition has not yet subsided ; , nor has the power of persecution been ; f » ubdue < i and disarmed . Conscience is still shackled and burdened by impositions . # Thc right of individual judgment and opinion in matters of religion is still embarrassed and restrained , and the outward profession of the Christian faith and worship is liable to ipenat * ties and disabilities , disgraceful to a liberal nation , and an enlightened age : while the Protestant religion v debased by
a harrow policy , and the little jealousies which are ^ generated by bigotry and intolerance , is . far from having attained to that state , of purity and i benevolence whic ; hr % ^ u 5 iit , ta be its end and aim , far from . being yet settled on the true ^ the only solid basis of Christian knowledge , truth and freedom ^ With all the great
advantages by which we are distinguished above every othqr , nation onder heaveaa , yej we cannot glorf in tJ ^ ei unqualified enjoyment o £ civil , pr religious [ liberty ^ in the general prevalence of virtuous } mo * rals and simple manners , in : the inestima * ble Blessings of ^ natural justice , of pure philanthropy , of domestic tranquillity , € > f umversal pea ce * t ^ " Arc we not is till insensible to the
cries of the poor , and unmindful o £ those regulations and arrangements respecting thent , which m the view of a sound and enlightened policy , are necessary to their sobriety and industry , as well as to , the peace and , good order of society ? Do we not remain s ^ ill . ^ e ^ f to t |^ e , » prrowful voice of the prisoner groaning
under the lath of the > oppressor ? Do we not still encourage the wanton waste of life , the systematic effusion of human blood ? And , by fomenting the irreparable mischiefs and miseries of war , do we not still multiply and aggravate the tuffcrmgs of humanity ? ?« If there be merit demerit AMVfl
, or , ac-M . M . > ««> , *«» WS ^ ^ VI , M ^ tllCJTIK f ai ^> countablcncss and rceponsibility , attached to human actions ; if the conduct of individuals or of State * be cogtiizablc at the bar of eternal justice' ; if certain measures of conduct do , in tt ^ eir natural tendency , directly lead to . internal i > cace and assurance of mindwhile con-•¦¦««• i ¦
^ «< , ^^ w - ^ - ^^ w ^^ wmp mu ^ - ^ r ^ fr - ^ v ^ — am m » » » iwp j vf mtMmMm * ^ V ^^> JM ^ trappy measures do as necessarily produce i perplexity , j ndf embarrnisnt ^ l , Wen * urciy we / 4 iahi > lea 4 noright to tun e * ± ¦ emption from defeaeand disaster , to u ^ ' alloyed pro ^ parityv ^ c 3 tory amd c ^ hqu ^ ;'' we can claim no title to the approving
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554 Review . —Jervis ' s Sermons
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/46/
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