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legislator . It will be long , we fear , before the nuisance is abated ; for it is difficult to reach the minds , or even to restrain the actions , of the class of people who commit it . There is the greater need of persevering effort . Mr . Good has done well to aid . He has borrowed a little from the eloquent Discourse of Dr . Drummond ; but the obligation is fairly and honourably acknowledged ; and as this sermon will probably be read in a very different circle , we rejoice in the circumstance .
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Herbert ' s Country Parson , Church Porch , fyc . London . Washbourne . 1832 . The very sight of this little book refreshes one ' s eyes , as its contents content the heart . Welcome is it amid the wranglings of , controversy , and sweet as the voice which calls away from noise and contention , toil and trouble , to lie down in green pastures beside the still waters . The church and the world ought to be the better for this very neat and appropriate edition of excellent George Herbert ' s fc Priest to the Temple ,
or the Country Parson , his Character and Rule of Holy Life . ' It is a beautiful picture of a parish priest—so simple , good , and holy . Just two centuries have elapsed from the original publication ; but such books never grow old ; it seems as fresh as some lowly flower of paradise , just opening in quietness by the side of the river of life , with the dew of heaven upon its petals . For the sake of those who know not Herbert ' s * Country Parson / we cull a portion of Chap . VII .
* The Parson Preaching . 4 country parson preacheth constantly . The pulpit is his joy and his throne . If he at any time intermit , it is either for want of health or against some festival , that he may the better celebrate it ; or for the variety of hearers , that he may be heard at his return more attentively . When he preacheth , he jfrocures attention by all possible art ; both by earnestness of speech—it being natural to men to think ,
that where is much earnestness there is somewhat worth hearing—and by a diligent and busy cast of his eyes on his auditors , with letting them know that he marks who observes and who not ; and with particularizing of his speech , now to the younger sort , now to the poor , and now to the rich— " this is for you , and this is for you "—for particulars ever touch and awake more than generals . Herein also he serves himself of the judgments of God ; as of those of ancient times ,
so especially of the late ones , and those most which are nearest to his parish ; for people are very attentive of such discourses , and think it behoves them to be so when God is so near them , and even over their heads . Sometimes he tells them stories and sayings of others , according as his text invites him ; for them also men heed , and remember better than exhortations , which , though earnest , yet often die with the serr
mon , especially with country people , who are thick and heavy , and hard to raise to a point of zeal and fervency , and need a mountain of fire to kindle them ; but stories and sayings they will well remember . By these and other means the parson procures attention ; but the cha- ' racter of his sermons is Holiness . He is not witty , nor learned , nor eloquent , but Holy—a character that Hermogenes never dreamed of ,
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208 Critical Notices . — Theology , Criticism , and Morality *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/64/
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