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The subjects sure the following : — The Nature and Propriety of contending for the Faith once delivered to the Saints . —The Father alone the true God , and the only proper object of Religious Worship , —The Docility and Simplicity of Little Children ,
considered and improved . —The Scripture Doctrine of Justification explained and improved—The Causes of Infidelity >—The Unconscious State of Man between Death and the Resurrection . —The Happy and Permanent Junction of the Righteous in a Future State in the Presence of Jesus Christ .
These subjects are important and interesting . The discourses are distinguished throughout by what appear to us correct views of scripture doctrines , and by candour , simplicity and benevolence truly Christian , united
to zeal not only for revealed truth , but for its proper and natural effects , undissembled piety towards God , good will to men , and the performance of every social duty . " In the Discourses themselves , as well as in the Notes , a
considerable variety of important matter is collected from very respectable sources , with references to the various authors from whom it is obtained . Hence persons , who have not attended to the subjects of which they treat , may derive much information from them , and may learn where they may receive the fullest satisfaction .
In a note to Discourse II , the author gives a concise view of a late learned controversy in our pages , [ ix . 892 . 466 . 521 . 595 . 660 . 663 . x . 38 . 120 , ] on Acts xx . 28 ; and most of our readers , we are convinced , will agree in his conclusion :
" Whatever was the original reading of Acts xx . 28 , I cannot believe that the apostle intended to usev the expression , Me blood of Gotf , and therefore I should lay no stress upon that passage , as Doddrid ge seems to have done .
il St . Athanasius intimates , that the scripture s have no where delivered to us sach language as the blood of God . Such , 8 J * F he , are the impudent expressions ° f Ariaug . Athanas , eont . Apollin , apud Velstein in loc . " Notes to Bis . II . Note c P . 62 .
. There is rather a curious Erratum *« Note A , to Dis . IV . p . 127 , by * toch Mr . Madge , the pastor of the Unitarian congregation at the Octa-# to * Norwich , is elevated to a doctor-^ IV and substituted for Dr . Magee , " * Dublin profe * wr , well known to
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our readers as the advocate of the Church-of-England doctrine of the Atonement .
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Review . —Ton 2 min $ Family Prayers * 245
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Art . III . —Family Devotion Assisted : containing Forms of Morning and Evening Prayers , for a Fortnight . By Joshua Toulmin , D . D * 12 mo . pp . 140 . Smiths , Birmingham ; Sherwood and Co . London . 1814 .
OF domestic devotion , Dr . Toulinin says , * Family Prayer is founded on the same principles as is public worship : it is equallysocial devotion , conducted in a smaller circle and less open to the notice of the world : it is social devotion more frequently
called into exercise , at the interval of hours instead of days ; and consequently better adapted to keep alive a sense of God and his Providence , and to strengthen the influence of religious acts . It is social de-VQtion practised under circumstances th&t give it a peculiar interest ; an interest
produced by the endearments of domestic connexions , and f > y a special reference to the state of a family , its wants and blessings ; and to the duties which its members owe to one another . It applies the
doctrine of a Providence , the grace of the g-ospei and the practical principles of religion , and bring's them home to us , in those relative capacities in which we are daily and hourly called upon to act , as men and Christians , under our own roof .
** A family , united by the bonds of the Christian faith , is indeed , a church of Christ , formed on a smaller scale , and daily enjoying the opportunities and advantages of social worship . Instruction and government readier it the school of virtue ; devotion exalts it into a temple of the living God . " Pref . pp . iii , iv .
After all that has been so repeatedly urged from the pulpit and the press in recommendation of this most useful but too much neglected practice , it cannot be necessary for us , would our limits permit , to detail at large the arguments in its support :
convinced , however , as we are , of its vast importance to the maintenance and revival of the genuine spirit and habitual efficacy of pure and undefiied religion , we cannot refrain from pressing it on the attention of the rational
and reflecting part of the Christian community , with the sincerest wish that it aright be as generally adopted as the observance of public worship . On this subject indeed there seems to be but one opinion among ministers of all denominations . It is true , ne religious practice whatever
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/45/
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