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      ART . I . Sermons by Edward Evanson , A . M . To which is prefixed ^ a Memoir of his Life ^ Religious Opinions and Writings . 2 vols * 8 vo * 11 . Is . Ipswich . Johnson , London .

      Ofthe author of J&ese sermons an in testing account will be found in th £ first volume of our Repository * . In tlie memoir" by winch they are introduced , we have , besides ' a narrative of hfs life , ^ l ^^ p Ciellent review of his writi ^^; % liS religious opinions , as wen a # $ ome letters that . reflect considerable honour oh his heart afn 3 uncje ^ standihg . If the feelings of our readers are in £ nison with oiurs it wilj be impossible to take \ xp the compositions of a man wj | p made "§ o Costly a sacrifice to conscience s witliojit jBtrbqg prepoissipssions in thcjir fa . voiir .

      " It is more than thirty years / * say ^ the Editor , who , we-are informed , is a reepcctablc clergyman in Suffolk , since ^ pte Sernion s ttqw submitted to the public judgment yrere composed Ijt may be necessary to Observe that in scfme of * them , deference is made * to Scriptures

      which Mr , E . since h % 4 reasopi t % thin ^ upaiithenticatcd an 4 spurious ; an 4 i $ jf . aentiment be found , not strictly to accord with his ' ' ^ Wr it must be accottnteii for frollMRe change which hjs opinions l& # , ^^ gjg ^ G since that piepi-Pf- ( Men ^ . ^ . acl |^ , - - : The volumes feS > fore us contain ' ¦ . f

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      thirty one discourses . We trans * cribe the titles . <« The creation—The d ^ luge-rThe confusion of tongues—On miracles—On * prophecy ( Nbs- - v . ftii 4 , vi- )"! r ^ Oh pers ^ cn- » tion—On- Christmas da ^ r—The day of Christ , its scriptural xneanmg-r—Th ^ Lord ' s prayer ( Nps . x , xi . xii . )—f-Parabli

      of the so ^ er explained—The word of God , the only rule of obedience- * -Temperance— 'Virtue . rewarded / by present , and future happpess— -The meaning of jthe word ^ alvtitron' — -The I ^ ord ' s supper i —The scriptural meaning of' the word * spirit' explained—AChristian spirit —The

      future conversion of all nations to Christianity—TKe hearj : and tfee affections should be engage ^ in the service of reli , - gio »—I * ife 'aricTimijaoirtality revealed in the gospelrr ~ Qn yrepentmrtce—Christian charity , its nieaning ^ rChristJanity 1 plain and intelligible—Moral improvcuaent is

      required in proportion £ o the degree of knowledge impartdd—The , -maja after God's own heart f — The faith ^ Abraham ^ -rThe seal of the foundation of Qp $ —O ^ the resurrection J —p ^ acbed at Tewkesbury chiirch ^ on Easter-day 1771 , for which a prosecution was cotniuenced agajnst the preacher . * ' /

      As many of .. the doctrines iuculcated \ n these , sermons are diametrically opposite to the articl es of the church of pngland > we cannot be ' surpyised either at the epples |*

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/33/