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REVIEW. " Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame." — Pope.
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Art . I . —Sermons , selected from the Papers of the late Rev . Henry Turner : and published at the request of the younger Members of the Church of Unitarian Christians , in the High Pavement * Nottingham . To which are added 9 a few *> fifiaxinnal Addresses . Newcastle :
Printed by T . and J . Hodgson . Sold in London by Hunter . 1822 . 8 vo . pp . 368 . SERMONS are often estimated , and , in some degree , not improperly , as theological or as literary
compositions . The contents of the present volume , while they possess , in both these views , no ordinary merit , claim additional and far higher praise . They illustrate , without doubt , the
knowledge and the taste , the judgment and the talents , of the lamented author : but they are , at the same time , transcripts of his heart , of the devotion , the purity , the benevolence , the affectionate and holy ^ eal , which inhabited it ; nor will it be easy or desirable to read them , without a frequent reference to the circumstances in
which they were written , and to those under which they are given to the world . Who can glance at the titlepage without deep sympathy and interest ? The name there presenting itself to us , is associated with
recollections , with attachments , and with anticipations , which numerous friends of scriptural piety and learning , of religious truth and knowledge , of Christian liberty and virtue , of sound education , of public spirit , of literature and science , in a word , of all the best interests of man , have been
eager to express . Out eyes open , too , on a volume of discourses of a : ' $ } eOeased pastbr , which are published at the request of the younger members of the bereaved church . Thisr fact , of rare occurrence , is , surely , not a little honourable to the dharacter of their departed instructor , and to their own ! Other and still
tenderer emotions , are awakened by the motto , * which so impressively yet ' ¦ »¦»«¦» . — . ¦ ¦» - » ...... « « ¦ - .,.,.... ¦ ... . ... . / _ .. J «< - — Quo nemo vir roelior n&tus cat ; nemo pietate praestantior ; cujus a me
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delicately informs us , that this selection from the papers of a muck-loved son is printed under the care of a father ; in whose consolations -and supports may they share , whose bosoms are , at any tinae , pierced with equal or the like sorrow !
We have not room to copy the preface , which consists principally of a biographical memoir , and which would be injured by abridgment . It is worthy of being repeatedly perused by young ministers , and hy candidates for the ministry : nor do we think it
less entitled to the serious regard of the religious societies , with which they are or may hereafter be connected . The testimonies of grateful recollection and profound sorrow , which appear in the introductory
pages , lead us to believe , that this excellent pastor was placed among men of temper , views and pursuits congenial with his own ; among those who were capable of estimating his solid and modest worth , and who were
solicitous to aid his schemes of usefulness : and such records give much encouragement to persons who fill the same or a similar situation . Mr . Henry Turner thought it natural , that €€ they who fear the Lord , should speak often one to ' another" of the subjects included in their nobhest
corpus humatum est , quod contra decuit ab illo uieum . Animus vero nou me deserenSj sed respectans , in e& profecto loca discessit , quo mihi ipsi spcro esse veniendum . " Many of our readers will instantly perceive , that these words , with two slight , but essential , alterations , Cicero's , who puts them into the mouth
of the elder Cato , at the end of the Treatise on Old * 4 ge . A translation of the former sentence , is supplied by the language of Mr . Burke ( Letter on the Duke of Bedford , &c ^ p . . 22 ) : " I live ia an inverted order ; they who ought to have succeeded nae , are gone before inc : thev who should have beet * to jup as
posterity , are in the place of ancestors , &c . " Of the remainder of tbe quotat ion from Cicero the iqatp 6 rt is tjie same with the following asstrrance , when erri ]* loy e ( * fcy the Christian T > elfever , + * t ^ hrfl , 8 ? unto him ; Imt he shall not return to UK . "
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Review. " Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame." — Pope.
REVIEW . " Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . " — Pope .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1823, page 470, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1787/page/38/
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