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irom tfe ^ concVusion number vin . vol . II . " Hie departments ofmbti and women , as appointed by Providence , are , in general respects , very different : "but the province of religion is common to both ;
jiay it often devolves more to the Woman ' s share . For the public lectures and instructions of ministers of the gospel will go hut a very little way , unless -they be properly enforced , and continually inculcated by a suitable domestic discipline at home . **
Then , after lamenting that religious education is much neglected , he adds , -very impressively , and with true dignity : " But I come not here to complain , but to exhort those who have fallen short
of their duty , iri this or any other respect , to reform their ways ; and to recommend to all ; especially to women , to aim at the highest excellence of piety and virtue in promoting the gospel of J esus , from the example of her which we have now been expatiating upon , and \ sKhom our Lord so much commended . ' * ' ftf att . xxvi . 6 , 7 i ^
The prayers severally annexed to the sermons are most admirable models for devotional addresses . But our limits will not permit us to copy the whole of any one of them : we give a few sentences . [ Vol . H . p . 184 , 185 , 186 . ]
* ' O holy and righteous Father ! the lover of all thy cteatures ; who desirest our perfection and true happiness ; and who hast taught us that it is life eternal to know thee > the only true God , and Jesus thine anointed prophet and our heavenly teacher , and to follow his instructions , which Iea 4 us unto thee V
- * - . ** Suffer us at no time tote ashamed or afraid to stand up for and to confess the excellency , the worth and the importance of the gospel , as a method and expedient contrived by thine infinite
wisdom to "bring the sinful sons of men back to thyself ; teaching us nothing but what is holy , just and good and praiseworthy ; and that those who excel therein arc thy chosen ones whom thou dc * lightest to honour : " These volumes are printed ^ as they well deserved , with great cor-
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rectness , and in a large and clear type . We Iiave always considered it as a most happy and auspicious distinction ot what we deem to be , — pure Christianity , that some of its ablest defenders in modern times
have been eminent for various and the highest excellencies * Let those of our readers , if any such there are , who know not how lovely and accomplished was the character of Mr . Lindsey , let those who are unacquainted with the nature and influence of the
doctrines which he inculcated ^ periise these sermons and do justice to the cause and its advocate . In the volumes of uninspired men we have met with none vvbich , for the substance and the temper , for the manner iwid the tendency , are are so completely evangelical .
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Art . II . Hints to the Public and the Legislature on the Nature and Effect of Evangelical Preaching . By m Barrister . Part IVY 8 vo . pp . 159 . Con . stable , Edinburgh ; Johnson and Co . London .
The Barrister is not to be stop * ped in his career by evil report or good report . Neither " evangelical " clamour nor political patronage * disarms him . And , for ourselves * we shall be the first to
recommend him to perseverej if we may estimate his future labours by the wojrk before us , \ yhich is nearly unexceptionable and f « r the most part excellent * With becoming severity , thr Banister unmasks an
Association of United Theological Booksellers , ' who are seeking to derive a profit from Calvinism , and who disguise mere mercenary motives
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Review ^ The BdmsteFs Hints * Ft . iv . 45
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 45, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/45/
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