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and practices of posterity , were as little countenanced-by the law as they are by the gospel .
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A Discourse delivered in the Upper Chapel , Norfolk Street , Sheffield , on the 2 \ st Marchy 1832 ; being the day appointed for a General Fast . By N . Philipps , D . D . Blackwell , Sheffield .
In a preliminary address to the inhabitants of Sheffield , the author vindicates his conduct , as a minister of the gospel , in having raised his voice in favour of parliamentary Yeform . His defence is easy , for he is not in the pay of government , nor ru * s church a creature of the state . It is the pecuniary connexion with rulers that puts religious teachers in a different position from their fellow-subjects . The objection to the clergyman , in politics , differs little from the objection to the exciseman . The author ' s reason for not having joined the Sheffield Political Union
we cannot dispute as to him personally ; but we should demur to its being generalized . * I have always declined such invitations , however respectfully offered , as I have done that from your Political Union ; not from motives of suspicion or disregard , but because I felt , on reflection , that I should be more independent and useful when standing on my own ground than on any other . ' However this may hold , as to political societies , in ordinary times and circumstances , in the late crisis , had nil done so , the friends of their country would soon have had no ground to stand upon . We should now have been under Tory , if not military rule .
Dr . Philipps says nothing of the specific purpose for which the Fast was appointed . We think he should ; for it was either right or wrong to make such an appointment with reference to the spread of the cholera . In our opinion , that appointment was based on a wrong principle ; and while we judge no man for a different opinion , we yet think that the expression of their opinion was particularly incumbent on those who seemingly observed the day , but really dedicated it to a different purpose .
. Dr . Philipps took advantage of the occasion to impress his hearers with the necessity of * religious reform , or reform in piety , in morals , and in manners / This purpose he has executed in a serious and solemn manner . We dissent from his recommendations to legislators and magistrates , that they should limit the number of public-houses , make licences difficult ( p . 36 ) , and compel idle wanderers to enter houses of prayer ( p . 38 ) ; But our dissent is from the means , or supposed means rather , not from the end . May that end , and all the other devout and moral objects contemplated by the author , be promoted by the publication of this discourse . IHHMMMbhm ^ mh
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674 Critical Notices . —* A Discourse , Sfc .
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Sequel to Principle and Practice ; or , the Orphan Family . A Tale . London , Houlston . This tale , like its predecessor , is primarily intended for the young ; like that top , there Is much in it which may interest and instruct their seniors also . We would particularly direct attention to an admirable little history of the introduction of prize-giving into a school , the struggle for the prizes , and . their adjudication , with its consequences . It is an excellent application of Christian philosophy to the machinery
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 574, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/70/
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