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REVIEW. *< Still'pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame.*'* Top*.
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Art . L—i-jVtne Sermons , on the Nature of the Evidence hy which the fact oj onr Lord ' s Resurrection is established ; and on various other subjects . To which is prefixed , a Dissertation on the Prophecies of the Messiah dispersed among the Heathen . By Samuel Horsley , LL . D / f . R . S . T . A . S . Late Lord Bishop of St . . Asaph . London , 1815 . Longman and Co . and Rivingtons . 8 vo . pp . 852 . " 1 VT ORE Iast words * of Bishop JLtJL Horsley ! f Not any of his " loose and unconnected sheets , " not any of his " scattered and mutilated manuscripts , " seem to be withholden from the public . " The Dissertation which stands first in the following pages , ' is " confessedly an incomplete work *' : the manuscript was not left in that state in which the authorf had he been livingy would have published it— " indeed a note found in one of its pages expressly states tbat it was Iris intention to have revised it . " Our readers will judge , whether , in these circumstances , it ought to have been laid before the world ! The Advertisement is dated from Dundee . Of course , we presume that
the Rev . Heneage Horsley is the editor , and though we are ignorant of the motives of this gentleman in thus exposing to the eye of day every crude , unfinished essay which he finds in his father ' s study , yet we really think that he would have
shewn greater respect to the memory of a parent and to the discernment of the age by suffering the Dissertation and the Nine Sermons to enjoy their peaceful slumbers . It were inequitable to represent them ajs altogether unworthy of seeing the light : we
content ourselves with insisting on the fact { hat they were not prepared m designed by the writer for publication , and that , according to the editor ' * concession , th # manuscript , « o far as regards tl * e more important part of the volume , " was not left in that state in which Bishop Horsley ,
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had he been living , would have put * lishedit "! -Among the theologians of his time , among the scholars and divines raised to the episcopal bench during the present reign , the prelate of whom
we are speaking held a considerable place . Perhaps it is an advantage flowing from that kind of posthumous knowledge of him which the Rev , Heneage Horsley has abundantly communicated ,, that we possess some * what of a more intimate and familiar
acquaintance with the Bishop than we could otherwise have formed . At least , we obtain , in this way , a clearer view of his literary character , and arc better able to perceive the cast of his mind , the direction of his studies , the extent of his attainments and the
peculiarities of his style . Towards the conclusion of this article , we shall endeavour to make an estimate of his rank as a theological author and of his tner&s as a- writer * The duty previously imposed on us , is that of examining the contents of the pre * sent volume .
Of these " A Dissertation oh the prophecies of the Messiah dispersed among tfce Heathen" stands first , in singularity as in order . It " appears by the forfn of compellation to have been originally delivered
from the pulpit . " This is the remark of the editor , to the justness of which we feel some , though no great , difficulty in subscribing . A rational curiosity would have been gratified could he have informed us to what
audience so curious a production wai addressed . To the wants , the taste and the qualifications of a parochial congregation nothing can be more unsuitable : and , assuredly , the di « - ¦ ¦ ¦ " ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ * ¦ ' in sertation is much too " unfinished to have been hazarded before an academical or a clerical assembl y *
" For the feet that the Gentile world in the darkest ages was possessed of explicit written prop hecies af Christ , " Pishop Horsley relies on " the contents of a very extraordinary book , which was preserved at Rome under the name of the oracles of the Cumoean Sibyl . Yet he admiti ( 9 ) that " among heathen writer * ft
Review. *≪ Still'pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame.*'* Top*.
REVIEW . *< Still ' pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . * ' * Top * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1815, page 754, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1767/page/26/
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