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ON THE STUDIES AND PUBLIC MINISTRY OF F * V . REINHARD * * Article I .
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We call the attention of our readers to the little work * the title of which we h&ve recorded at full below—not as the subject of a review , fof it has been published several years , and to those who interest theftiselves in foreign literature , has been long well known
- ^ -n ot simply because it is in itself very interesting and instructive , but chiefly to afford ourselves the opportunity of saying a few things concerning the state of theology and preaching in our own country , which could not be so conveniently thrown into the shape of an express article on the subject . In sitting down to compose a sermon , as every divine must have often experienced , nothing gives greater unity and directness to the flow of ideas than to find an appropriate and fruitful text : we shall take
Reinhard s Volume fot our text on the present occasion ; and if any , who might otherwise have been inclined to bestow a few moments on our pages , shall be alarmed at the nature of the illustration , and expect something as prosy and somniferous as a regular discourse , we must remove their apprehensions by assuring them , that Reinhard , whom we are desirous of introducing to their notice , and whom we shall leave as much as possible to speak for himself , was the most popular preacher and sermon-writer of his day in Germany *
A very general prejudice prevails in England against German theologians , often , we believe , without any solid ground ; but whether well-founded or not in the majority of instances , it can have no rational existence in the case of Reinhard , whose opinions were avowedly , and , as the present work will show , most conscientiously orthodox ^ and who stood at the head of what might , with great propriety , be called the conservative party of
the German divines of his age . But , generally , we are inclined to think , that the tendency of German literature on moral and religious topics is misconceived on this side the water ; it is identified with the French philosophy of the last century ; and , if we are not mistaken , the eloquent author of the Natural History of Enthusiasm' has somewhere stated this as his impression
respecting it : whereas , we believe the fact to be ., that nothing can be more widely at variance than the material and anti-religious doctrines of the old French school , and the prevalent philosophy of Germany * Upon the whole , we conceive there is much justness in the following observations of Hl \ Monod , in his preface to the French translation of the present work : —
• We may further remark , to quiet the fears of those who appear to * Lettres de F . V . tteintiard , sur 6 efc Etudes et sa Carrl&re de Prddicateur ; traduites de l'Allemand , pat J . Monod , Pasteur de l'Kglfse Reform £ a de Paris ; avec une notice raiaonti ^ e Bur les Kcrhs de Reinhard , par Ph . Alb . Stapfor * Ministre du Saint Evangile . ParUu 1816 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 734, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/14/
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