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Art . L Sermofts by SawpuclHqr&-^ lej i > LLD . F . li . & , F . ^ , £ . Late Lord Bishop of St . A&aph . 2 Vols . Dundee ^ Printed * Lori * -don , Hatchard , &c . Vol . I . pp .
358 , Vol . II . pp . 447-The prelate whose ppsthumpus sermons are before us -was no ordinary man * Strong powers of mind , various learning and great £ nergy of style , are among his distinctions a * a writer : and with these
be seems io have united a love of paradox , which betrays an almost entire absence of judgment , and occasionally tempts us to believe that he was the sport , in a considerable degree * of his feelings and
imagination , in his intellectual , literary and theological character , not to speak of him under any other , there were inconsistencies ^ hich are scarcely explicable but on this supposition .
We find in these pages many instances both of his excellencies and faults as a preacher and author . The purpose of the three first discourses ( James , v . 8 . Matt xxiv . 3 ) , is to shew tbtat the com . ing ^ of the Lord * usually means , in the New Testament , the season of
the general judgment . Tl ^ at such is its sign ification in many passages we have no doubt : bqtvve ^ ar ^ bf opinion that Bishop U . has -contended for rather more than he
ha ? prove ^ L The phrase is often equivalent to thut uf ' the , son ot man coaling ii > his kingdom ' , < tnd is to , be ¦ explained by it " : and this represents the deS i triic , U <) n of J < jtu-^ aleiru A ' better iut ^ cprietai ^ op lUiaii our authorVof L « k > e xxi . fk $ *
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occurs in Mwtfatwns of ? Prdpkt * cy * a work of considerable ioforma * lion , accuracy and value , which ought po be ii ) the possession of every man who studies the prophetic Scriptures , In sermons iv . v * vi , vii « we
have such an exposition of Ps . xlv . as will highly delight two classe $ of readers ; ttose who are foh 4 of m ystical interpretations of the sacred volume , and those who think , with the deceased Bishop , that
Christian princes are , justified in defending their religion , by arms , and that . to . allege the precepts en , joining mutual forgiveness ^ &c a $ an objectipn to this practice *^ the cant of puritaiibm ! Fp . f a coirr ^ ct translation of the PsaHn , we ir ^ st
refer to the version of it by DivGed dcs . There is much probability in the younger Rosenmiillvr ' 4 > sUppo * sitipn that this nupjti ^ l ode wa § addressed by . a Jewish bard toajcing of Persia .
r l'he eighth is a comment upon 1 John , v % 6 , It is eloquently writr ten : but thebishop , we conceive * fail *! of shewing that the epistle teachei the doctrines of the ^ incarnation and atonement , and tha ^ the wate r spo * ken of in the text was miraculous
and typical . Not much to his cxz * dit as a critic , he sturdily retaint the clause of tho thr ^ e heayenl / witnesses , of which , hawser , he attempts an exposition rather dif *
ferent from what , is . udU 9 li . y , P " posed by the orthodox chan * pi
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/42/
