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Art . VI . —A Sermon preached at the Temple , May 31 s / , and at Berkley Chapel y Berkley Square , June 28 / A upon the conduct to he obseived by tile Established Church towards Catholic and other Dissenters * By the ReV . Sydney Smith , A , M . late Fellow of Nfew College , Oxford ! 8 vo .-pp . 27 . Longman and Co .
This Sermon is prefaced by a manly address , in which the preacher avows that a sense of 44 duty" led him first to deliver and now to publish a discourse ** extremely disagreeable to many of his hearers , in order to fct bear his share of testimony against a religious clamour , which is \ ery
foolish in all those in whom it is not very wicked / ' For this public protest against the hypocritical and detestable cry of Xo Popery 1 we thank him : good sense and charity mlIL
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he may he assured , find their reward ^ not r perhaps at court or in the Church , but assuredly in the esteem of the reflecting part of the country , whose esteem a wise and good man will alone covet . But whilst we applaud the courage and tolerant spirit of the author we must be allowed to express our surprise at the principles which he maintains on the subject of Church-establishments ; principles which none but the clergy do not consider as ex-
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Art . IV . —Strictures on Fr ? e Discussion , with observation * on the Common Notions oj Infernal Influence on the Human Mind . Svo . pp . 60 . \ s . bd . Longman and Co . 18 O 7 .
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This pampji ! et was occasioned by a controversy in a magazine at Liverpool , and will we trust prove another instance of the utility of local theological discussion / It wilt at the same time give
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pleasurctothe liberal-minded read - er in all places . The author en * deavours to explode the anti . Christian " doctrine * of Demons , " and recommends unbounded freedom of inquiry .
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Art . V . —7 he Providence of God ever-ruling the Issues of War and Conquest . A Sermon , preached at the Chaptl in Essex Street , Feb . 25 , 1807 , being the day of General Fast . To which is added a Prayer . By Thomas Belsham . Johnson , is . 6 d .
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The tenour and purport of this rational and eloquent dis . course is fully expressed in the title . It consists of practical illustrations of the philosophical and Christian doctrine of necessity . The conclusion to which
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the preacher brings his readers is summed up in his motto , taken from one of the most moral and sententious of our poets : — " All discord , harmony not understood , All partial evil , universal good .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 434, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/38/
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