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As the subject also is but little regarded ( in which he is quite right ) and imperfectly understood * lie has printed bis discourse , with the hopes that it may prove acceptable to those of his sect , beyond the immediate sphere of his own ministry . What it may be to them we cannot pretend to say , but we are sure that , for those who have a regard for the Christian religion , it will be one among many proofs how the human mind may be perverted by prejudice and superstition : at the sanie time they will
rejoice that , whatever indignity the sect might think it ri # ht to shew to a dead corpse , the power is happily taken from it in this country of exposing a living body to fire and faggot . The sermon is the usual tissue of sectarian reasoning , founded partly on misapplication of certain well-known passages of Scripture , and partly on the traditions of those sectarians who , having got power into their own hands , converted the precepts of the gospel into rules of political expedience . We will not waste the time of our readers on such trash : the spirit of it may be seen by the following extract : i
( Sins of ig-norance and infirmity are best cured by tenderness and compassion , sins of wilfuhiess and stubbornness by terror and alarm . There is , indeed , ordinance so just , but it may possibly be abused , even the very sacrament 5 but are we to forbear the pious and proper use of them ? No doubt but excommunication , if used against any without sufficient cause and well-considered counsel is wrongly used , but where occasion justly and indispensably calls for it , then surely that discipline which was appointed by Ghrisl , enforced by the apostles , and
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practised in the first and purest ag-es of the Christian Church , ought still to have place in every congregation of Christian people . "
We should-be obliged to some of our Correspondents in Kent 4 o inquire into the nature of the case , what was the horrid crime or sin of which this pauper was guilty , what proceedings were had upon it , where the sentence of excommunication was
read , and what , if any , punishment followed it , besides the denial of those rites which the sect established < by law allows to be performed over felons of every description , adulterers and sodomites . F .
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442 Poetry . ~~ Venice % an Ode by Lord Byron .
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Art . VI . —A Sermen delivered at the Old Meeting- House , Walthamstow , August 2 , 1818 , on occasion of the Death of Elizabeth , Daughter of Isaac Solly , Esq . By E * Cogan . 8 vo . pp . 27 * 1818 .
MR . COGAN here considers the adaptation of Christianity to the condition of humanity , and ably and satisfactorily shews its inestimable value to . man as a being who is destined to -death and exposed to suffering . The sermon is characterized by a seriousness of spirit and plaintiveness of tone well suited to the
melancholy occasion . After the copious Review which we have taken of the Author ' s two volumes , of Sermons , [ pp . 257 and S 23 , ] we cannot better describe or more effectually recommend this discourse , than by saying that it is in his best manuer .
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*» " — What should thy sons do ?—any thing" but weep : And yet they only murmur in their sleep . In contrast with their fathers—as the slime , The dull green ooze of the receding * deep , Is with the dashing- of the spring-tide foam , That drives the sailor shipless to his home , Are they to those that were 5 and th \ u they creep , Crouching and crab-like , through tneir sapping streets .
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VENICE : An Ode by Lord Hyron ^ just published with u JMazeppa ^ a Poem . "
* I . Oh Venice ! Venice ! when thy marble walls Are level with the waters , there shall be A cry of nations o ' er thy sunken halls , A loud lament along the sweeping sea £ If J , a northern wanderer , weep for thee .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/42/
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