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y ¦ Art , I . National Gratitude . A Sermon delivered October 25 , 1809 , 8 fC . before the Congregational Church assembling at Peckhaw , in Svrry . By W , B . Col Iyer , D . D . 8 vo . . pp , 36 . Williams and Smith , I 8 O 5 .
ci In every possible point of view , " says the preacher , pub - lic worship appears to me , on this particular day , a singular fluty and a distinguished privilege . ' ( p . 3 . ) "It is an occasion , " he tells his hearers , with more moral than grammatical
propriety , iC on which in all probability , no one present will meet again , * V ( p . 2 . ) He therefore assiduously improves the op * port unity of extolling the character of the king , of recommending unconditional obedience to the government , of praising the established churches of England " and Scotland , and of loading the emperor Napoleon with varied ^ and by no means select abuse .
There are several passages in the discourse which we had mark - ed for animadversion ; but it would be idle to attempt seriously to check the evil tendency of a publication which is already probably forgotten . One general feature of the serr mon is its hasty avoidance of Qvery uncourtly topic . The preacher seems to have been quite unconscious of all our national sins ; and he extenuates , while he is forced to acknowledge , our national calamities . Text is pil ^ d
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upon text , without explanation , in suppoi t of the vague duty of " loyalty ; " and a pretty broad intimation is given of the impropriety of censuri ng ^ even in the c 6 daily prints / ' " the impotence
of a minister , the treachery of a general , the want of co-operation among allies , or the half-mea- * sures of a government / ' What a strain of preaching for such a period . The publication of the discourse bespeaks ^ we fear , that we have " fallen 6 n evil days ; " and there is much in it , we confess ^ that leads us to apprehend that there are not wanting , writers amongst us who are prepared to be the apologists of worse men and worse measures than have yet Jifflicted us .
The abolition of the , slave trade supplies Dr . Collyer with one of the least objectionable subjects of panegyric on the king , but even here he obtrudes upon Us fulsome adulation , and shews us the extent of his political prejudices . " The name of Wilberforce 9 ( he . says ) will descend with that of his gracious master , George the Third , to the remotest posterity . " Who would not infer from this 1 that Mr . Wilberforce was the ser * want of the , crown at the timt
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/36/
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