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Tins behtg so forig beforewe comnicfl ' ced ovkt career , as Reviewers , and the Discourses having been already -appreciated , and received their meed of f > raisct those volumes do not cortie within our provinice . With pleasure , however , 'we announce this new impression , sis a favourable omen of the deception they have iriet with , and take info oiir hands the twd additional
volumes , which accompany theiji * The known abilities of the author , and the high estimation in which his name was held , will naturally raise the reader ' s expectations : Ijor , we presume , will they be disappointed . The worthy author ,
we have to lament , is now no more ; but the Sermons before us , which , according to proposalspublished a year and a half ago , were designfnf ; and in a great measure prepared , for the press by himself , will remain as memorials of his
talents and spirit , and perpetuate his name with honour . The third volume , which continues theories of numbers , from the second , contains seventeen discourses . The subjects arc ; 1 . The Requisites to Religious
Understanding , from Dan . xn . 10 , pn * uched at an Ordination , 2 . On Sympathy , preached as recommendatory to the General Hospital at-Nottingham , ' from Jobnxi . 25 . £# On Sincerity , John i . 47 . 4 . Reflections on Human Life ,
considered as a Drnma , I Cor . vii . 31 . 5 . On Death , as a change to the virtuous and . to-the wicked * . 0 \ On the improbability and ineffiicacy of Repentance , when Kn ^ Ktually protracted * fsa . lv . 6 \ ? Christianity a perfect light . Epb .
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v . 8 . 8 * Naim » s the-food of party in religion , afid tnjtirir # ii * it > true ehristiatiiry , 2 Cot . X . 7 * & On the Christian A rwiour . Kph . % L 15 , 14 , 15 . \ Q . J&ich towards God , and prepared'for Deartu Luk <^ Xi ? i 20 . tl . Christian ^ k gnjlni ^ TtJ ^ Ps . cxii . 6 ^ 7 . 12 . Self oxainiiia ^ tioa , as pfeptkratory to the character of Religion , ^ Cor . xi . 38 . 13 . On the abuse of the Divide Forbearance . Eccles . viJi . 11 .. li * Oa Self-deceit . Jer . xvii . . 2 . CXn some of these subjects , the author extends his discussions throtigb
two discourses . 4 In the first discourse , delivered at an ordrnation , Mr . Walker corrects the superstitious ideas oi that service ,, which have been frequently attached to it , even among Protestant dissenters ; while he aims to place it in a point of view both rational and
useful-« ' In this day of inquiry , " says . out preacher , " "wherein all the ih * £ kutions and usages of pur ancestors have very properly been subjected to a severe examination , ordination has not been exempted . Bigots have thought too much of itj , and your over-rational men appear" to think too little of it . i will tell you therefore , in a few words , what in my soberest judgment it ought not to mean , and what I think it docs mean . It ought not to mean , that the officiating ministers have any of the apostolic powers committed to them . Their character and conduct , in the most
favourable view , argue themselves to bs oniy men , and the candidate will assuredly issue out of their hands a mere man , subject to the weakness , and failings of human nature ; , yet with a witfe use of his talents and advantages , and
with that assistance of his Maker , which we cannot calculate , and which it becomes us not to doubt of ,, capable of those improvements , and of those utilities which will do honour to himself , render him a blessing to chose with whom he
* Job . xnr . * 4 . «* N , 01 ^ fcrc e rror both cdmeat * $ c * t stands a . t the head of the scfcnon , for \ n each place it 'i * stated to be t ^ fc en fr < joa ^ eproph ^ y of Jerem iah instead of ^ the "boo ^ oi Jub , : * . .
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k ^ iew . —SetinoHs by GxMge . Walkers £ 0
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/37/
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