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* lire unto God / What a pleasing , awful prospect is before us ! That great eud of all things , for which this world of men was constituted , for which they have lived , and in the expectation of
which they have died , is still to come . The pious dead still wait for their redemption ; they wait because we are not yet prepared for that awful trial which is to ensue ; because the long-suffering of God still allows time for our
repentance ; and his wise providence is still multiplying and extending the means of grace , in behalf of a sinful and disobedient world . Tfiey have not yet received the promise : it is delayed , because the world is not yet ripe for the consummation of all things ; they have
received it not , that ( as the apostle says ) * they without us should not be made perfect ; ' and I cannot but conceive of our pious fathers as waiting in peaceful and patient expectation , till children , and children ' s children , be perfected . "—
Pp . 208 , 209 . Of the fifteenth discourse the title Is " on Lrove to Christ" [ 1 Pet . i . 8 ] ; the nature and foundation of which habit of mind are excellently stated . This sermon wa 3 € C preached before
the celebration of the Lord ' s Supper : ' and a powerful admonition to the observance of a rite so interesting and significant forms the conclusion . According to the preacher , we should love Jesus Christ , because he is the beloved Son of God , and the most
perfect example of every human virtue , because the most tender compassion for mankind was a governingmotive of his services and self-denial , because of the sufferings which he
voluntary underwent for our sakes because he still lives , and ever intercedes for us , and , lastly , because , though now we see him not , yet , if we are faithful unto the end , we shall see him , and be received into the
felicity of an everlasting fellowship with him . The sixteenth discourse , is <( on Uncharitable Judgment of others ' Faults . " [ Jonah iv . 9 . 1 A more
pertinent text migbt , perhaps , have been selected . The sermon , however , consists principally of very good observations on Jonah ' s character , and on part of his history , one of the rejmarks suggested by which is , ( 239 , )
y How carefully should we guard agiogt an unfeeling temper ia forming our judgments of mankind , aM CQptr
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signing them over to receive the full severity of the divine sentence i " From Matt . xx . 22 , Mr . H . T . professes to discourse , in No . XVII ., " on the proper Objects of a Christian ' s pursuits / ' Yet a considerable
portion of the sermon is occupied in an illustration of that incident in the evangelic narrative , which furnishes the text . The reader will meet here with a clear and faithful illustration of the expression , " worshiping- him . " ** Means of securing the Love of Christ , " [ John xv . 9 , 10 , ] are stated
in the eighteenth sermon : these are mainly , obedience to his commands and the imitation of his example . This preacher well observes , i ( that it is the excellent effect of the Christian scheme to make religion familiar to our thoughts , and to bring home to our business and bosoms the justest and sublimest motives of conduct "
{ 2670 The nineteenth discourse treats of a very attractive and interesting subject , and bears the title , " Religion suited to this World , as well as to the next" [ John xvii- 15 ] : it is employed in an illustratration of two
propositions ; " first , that the world is the appointed field for the exercise of Christian duty ; secondly , that the Christian ought to unite his earnest endeavours with his prayers to God , that he may so live in the world , as to be kept from the evil of it . " Towards the conclusion , Mr . H . T .
makes a very appropriate extract from Milton ' s Areopagitica . In No . XX . [ Matt , xxiii . 7 ] the reader is presented with a sermon of great value , on " The Woe denounced against Causes of Offence . " The fact and its consequences are first represented : then it is viewed as arising
out of the established order of Providence ; and , finally , the writer shews , that " this must not be used as an argument for any kind of wickedness , or even of negligence , in regard to the best interests of mankind . " Another
charming passage is introduced from that treatise of our sublime poet , which has just been mentioned : parents and children , governors and subjects , masters and servants , the aged and the young , ' in short , men ° f f classes , and th o ^ e , in partic ular , wm > are nearly and mutually related , may
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538 Review . —Sermons by the late Rev . Henry Turner .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1823, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1788/page/42/
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