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      Art . I . — Sixteen Missionary Discourses * By Richard Wright , U . M . I 2 mo . pp . S 55 . 7 s . Eaton . 1817 . fT ^ NCOUR AGED by the recep-Jt ! j tiou of his volume of " Discourses ou Evangelical Subjects , ' [ Mou . Renos . VI . 548 and 6 V 2 >] Mr .

      Wright has published these " Missionary Discourses , " so called because they have been preached in the course of his various missions , under the patronage of the Unitarian Fund . They are the best reply that could he made to certain writers who have

      insinuated that the Unitarian Missionaries are employed in sowing the seeds of religious intolerance and political disaffection . No one can read them and refuse to acknowledge that ,

      whether the preacher be right or wrong in his opinions , evangelical truth , according to his own conceptions of it , is the sole object which he has in view , or to admit that , in his most controversial strain of discourse , he never loses sight of candour . By

      the matter and manner of these Discourses , in short , the supporters of missionary exertions , on Unitarian principles , are quite willing that the utility and efficacy of such exertions

      should be determined . The Discourses are on the following subjects j I . Reason the Judge of what is Right . II . The Comprehensiveness and practical Importance of the Doctrine of the Divine Unity . ILL The Goodness of God . IV . Evil

      from the Hand of God , and made subservient to Good . V . Jesus made both Lord and Christ . VI . Jesus Christ superior to all other Prophets . VII . The Pre-eminence of Jesus Christ

      in all Things . VIII . Christ the only foundation . IX . Love to Christ . X- The Grace of God , and receiving it in vain . XI . Eternal Life the principal Subject of the Christian Revelation . XII . Death . XIII . The

      Causes and Cure of the Fear of Death . XIV . Future Judgment . XV . Hell , or the future State of the Wicked . XVL Heaven , or the future State of the Righteous . On these scriptural and practical

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      topics , the preacher discourses witli studied plainness and simplicity , constantly keeping in view the benefit of ' « the common people , " whom chiefly he is called in his missionary journeys

      to address . He never departs from good sense to catch popularity , but whilst he is always rational he exhibits an Evangelical fervour which edifies the reader , and which must have affected the hearts of the hearers

      of the discourses , especially as they were delivered in the extempore form A few extracts will serve as specimens of these popular addresses . On the subject of the Use of Reason in Religion , which is now happily common , but can never be uninteresting , Mr . Wright says smartly , but truly ,

      " Those who call the reason of others carnal , think themselves spiritual , forgetting that their own reason is as much human , consequently as much carnal , as that of those who differ from them . TJiey only call that reasoning * carnal , which they cannot answer . " P . 17 .

      In the Discourse entitled ** Jesus made both Lord and Christ / ' from Acts ii , 36 , there is much close reasoning , the mode of which will be shewn by one passage : " The A postle declares , that the person he speaks of , was made hoth Lord and

      Christ . This proves that whatever else he was , he could not be truly God . The word made can never be applicable to God ; for whatever he is , he must be selfexistent : what God is , he always was , and must eternally remain : and , in the nature of things , he who is made what

      he is , cannot be God . Had Jesus been God , how could he have been made either Lord or Christ ? God could not be made Lord ; for be who is made Lord , was not always Lord , he was not Lord till he was made such ; had be been always Lord , there could never have been a time when be was made Lord ; but he who is truly

      God , was always the supreme and universal Lord : had Christ been God , ha must always have been this supreme and universal Lord j of course , there could never have been a time when he was made Lord ; but the apostle positively asserts that be was made Lord , and distinguishes him from God , by whom be was made

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      ¦ u Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . ' — Popb .

  • Citation
    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/46/