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    blunted susceptibilities of those who , to use a strong metaphor of their own , expect' * helUfire to be thrown at them by basketfulls "

    If the style of preaching now adopted be thus unlikely to strike with sufficient attention the ignorant part of an auditory , the sentiments not unfrequently disseminated among the dissenters have

    the effect of chilling the warmth of devotion , in elevated and tender minds . How freezing are metaphysical explanationspn subjects of practical utility ! What

    sufferer under public or private calamity , seeks the consolation of prayer , who has recently been told from the pulpit that prayer can only operate in the improvement of his own feelings and

    private habits of thought ? Not in any possible degree on the mind or the purposes of the * high and Jofty one , " who has predisposed the succession of events by fixed and immutable laws . In vain has

    he u $ ed the endearing appellation of children , in vain has he designated himself the * father of

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    To tfe Ecfitor of the Monthly Repository .

    , As it is nothing ) but &x \ act of civility to give an answer when questions are asked , and jt may be some tinges nepessary for one ' s own justifipation or for the sake * of others , to make a reply yvhen there is little in the toi > e and

    language of the inquirer to entitle him to it , I crave your , indulgence foj : a few words iqi answer to yoijr

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    the fatherless , and the husband of the widow , " if the relief of want , the support and protection , implied'by those relations , be entirely cut off . Hopeless indifference , cold insensibility , or total neglect of public worship , are the necessary result *

    If it was the exclusive and appropriate praise of Socrates , that he brought philosophy from heaven to dwell with men , it is no less so that of the religion of Christ , that it has unveiled the kindness

    of the . Father * and manifested him as accessible to his offspring . Should the investigation of this subject be continued , and more evidence of the decline of our

    congregations sought after , I have no doubt but the style of composition , and redundancy of general and unmarked expression in which our sermons and our prayers are

    composed , would furnish sufficient materials for prolonging the discussion . This , Mr . Editor , should you like to admit further communications , 1 must reserve for another paper W . HAMPSON . -

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    correspondent , an Unitarian , who seems angry at the title affixed to my short and hasty letter , and wants an explanation of it , I need not inform yo \ ir correspondent , that there are some Christians who

    professedly set up faith in opposition to human reason ; and pos * sibly he may have heard that Bishop Beveridge went so far as to dec } are , that he believed the Tri »

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    172 u A Rational Dissenter of the Old School , " in Explanation

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    u A RATIONAL DISSENTER OF THE O 1 * D SCHOOL , " IN EXPLANATION .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/12/