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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS ;
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Dr . Enfield ' s Sermon on the Pro . gressof Religious Knowledge . Dr . Enfield has left the character of an elegant , accomplished writer ; but there is one sermon of his , particularly , which entitles him lo the higher praise of a Christian Reformer . — no discourse extant ,
not excepting Dr . Priestley ' s on Free Inquiry , breathing a more ardent spirit of improvement , or more nervously and eloquently expressing the bold speculations , the glowing anticipations , whicl j ^ have , in alJ ages , animated great minds . tfc
This sermon is On the Progress of Religious Knowledge , '' and is the first of V Three Discourses , " by three separate authors , ( Dr . Ei < field , Mi . Godwin and Mr , P . Holland , ) published in one . 8 v > . volume , in the year 1780 : the volume is dedicated to Samuel
Shore , Esquire ,, of Nqrtou Hall } , Derbyshire , " who ( agreeably , to \ he prayer of the , authors ) still lives ** to bless his nearest connections /'
and whose " name and influence " stiU ** , support the scherpes of use fulness and beneyolenpe '^ " by $ iu couia ^ Utg iyhich , in , t )} e | j ; d . ay , \ he attracted the respect of these united friends .
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est ages of the world . Whereas human feature admits of such es * sential improvement , from the
continued labours of individuate through a succession ^ of genera , tions , that there is not perhaps a greater diffi rence between the most sagacious and the most stupid animal existing on the face of the earth , than between the human
savage , who subsists on the plunder of the forest , and the ingenious artist , or ' the deep-judging sage / formed in the polished state of society . " He next notices the rise of the greatest amendments in the human condition from the smallest
beginnings : "little did the man who first observed the polarity of the 'load-stone , or he who executed the first rude sketch of theart of printing , imagine to what valuable purpose ^ their respecti ve discoveries would afterwards be ap- plied /' ,
The ? author iheu turns to thfe proper subject of his discourse , : the progress ; of religious kri 6 wi ledge ; - and sketches with ar be ^ tttiful pencil the history of the ' lDfa ** ^ ine Dispensetipns from Ad ^ lh to * Mo ^^ fro m M oses to Christ , and ' frorn the establisbmeot ro th 6 > eo # - jiuptiiqtL of , ChrKtianity , ^ Hefe * ^ ^ qccii ^ a fine ^ uk ^ iuin , © n the IJnitarian k Refonmera 7 .. >— < SoWi afu > T the iirst / clawn of the Rdf ^ rnt- v atiqh , several ^ great mei ^ ^ i roi e , t ^ ho - ' ^ possests ^ dvsuicdiislrength and a ^ ute-^ es s , o , f -Ujndfiarstanding ^ &ndk fte& ± > , 4 om , o ^ ^ p ioty ^ as to be ftbkf ^ at one ' / ^ ort , to mpst ^ im theipure r ^ ligidn ^/ Qli riM ^ miiKdthe iiiass ^ r rtiesuiiwid ifi ^ pe ^ w kufei ^ ith xthte k
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 293, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/13/
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