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Art . I . — A Summary View of the Evidence and Practical Importance of the Christian Revelation , in a Series of JJis- > , courses addressed to young Persons , by Thomas Belsham , Minister of the Unitarian Chapel in JEssex Street . Johnson ., 1807 . 8 vo . pp . 204 .
The view here given of the evidence and practical importance of the Christian Revelation extends through six discourses , to the first of which we shall confine our attention in the present number .
Our author has but imperfectly supplied the place of a table of contents , of a running-title and of an index , by prefixing to each discourse a brief enumeration of the subjects on which it principally treats : in the first , for example ^ the reader is prepared , by this assistance , to expect p
iielimina-HY OBSERVATIONS THE QUESTION STATED PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT FOH THE C 1 IK 1 STIAN " iievelat : on : —the text is John vi . 68 , 69—and ., in remarking upon the conclusion of the latter of these verses ^ the preacher very properly avails himself of the reading ' the hol y one of Gou . "
While demonstration admits cf no degrees of assent , the evidence tyf testimony and presumption admits of many ; and the strength f > r weakness of belief in dillerent persons will obviously depend upon the different lights m which they perceive the arguments submittecKo their understandings . For ; ili useful purposes , however , and more especially f i the gfoat etuis
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of religion , that faith is sufficients ly firm , which actually furnishes motives to a correspondent conduct ^ and affords a basis of reasonable and lively expectation .
With this opinion , and with a strict regard to the connection in which they are found , we are far from being startled at the following observations of Mr . B . ' s , in the commencement of his
undertaking . cc The utmost which the generality of sober and rational inquirers can expect , is to attain a faith , not perhaps wholly unmixed "with doubt , and a hope , not entirely unclouded with fear ; but at the
same time , a faith so decidedly preponderant as to lay a reasonable foundation for virtuous practice , and a hope so habitual and encouraging , as to fill the mind with peace and joy in believing " , and to administer the best consolation under the
vicissitudes of life . '* ( p-3 JTo produce this state , of mind in the young , is the writer ' s object in the present series of discourses : four of them comprize a brief recapitulation of lectures delivered after the morn ing-service in Essex-street : and the merit of
the volume must , in great measure , bi ^ judged of by reference to its professed nature and design . A retrospect of evidence upon such a subject could not but In ; neccssury and acceptable to hearers at an earl y age . ( pp . T > 1 . )
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** STILL PLEAS E D TO PRAISE , YET NOT AFRAID TO BLAME . ' * Pore .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/38/
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