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Knowledge ( Luke iv . 18 , iff ) , \ s in the main , the best in these vo-Jiimes . We shall have occasion to recur to it with pleasure as equally credi ta ble tp the feeliogs anct the talents of the departed prelate * / ,
In the tenth ( Mark vii . 37 ) , preached for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum , we perceive little to approve except the statement ^ and ( exhortation at the conclusion * This discourse ^ indeed , we have lately seejn characterized as
containing a very admirable discussion on miracles . We hope to make it appear , Before we close the oresent article ^ that what t has thus 1 > een pronounced ; an admirable dl ^ cu s ^ io © is , in truth , an exhibit * . 'tin pf the inost unworthy sophistry *
Tfte eleventh is , on the Wiojej an excellent practical discourse . Bishop H here pojnjts . put t ^ e senses in . vvhicW Christ ' s coipmandmenL John xiii . 34 .
of brotherly love , may be stykd i « rw commandment . ih the twelfth he explains Matt . Xvi . 28 . as allusive to Judas Iscaiiot and to eternal punishment . Possibly , liis attachment to the Jb ^ othesis stated in the three fi ^ st ^ iscourses , may have the rather disposed him to this interpretation . His ie ^ dnings da jiot satisfy us : but we wist our leaders to
consult the sermon i tself . The thirteenth ^ p reached before the Society for the propagation of fee Gospel in Foreign Parts * h an xpfonatipn of Matt xvi . 18 , 19 ,
*^ 4 an application of the truth ¦ Wi ch Bishop H . understands to De conveyed by the word ^ . He *? Wf wi ^ h plausijbilitjr ,. if hot ¦ cpm-P ^ te , ^ qc ce ^ thgi t of the . pro mises S ^^ iucci in them the former was ^ dressed to Peter per * ottally and
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exclusively , the latter , to the church at Jarge . The discourse concludes witb appropriate advice to the established clergy . N o * . xiv . ( 1 Car . ii . 2 . ) wa ^ r preached in Gloucester cathedral , at an ordination ; and ^ though we do not assent to every
interpretation , every assertion , or every reasoning which is found in it , we consider it , nevertheless , as a masterly and decisive argument to evince that sound learning is essential for supplying to the Christian teacher of the present day the want of inspiration * *
Ttte four following sermons are on prophecy ( 2 Pet . i . 20 , 21 , ) and notwithstanding some fanciful expositions which occur in them th ^ y deserve , and will repay , an atten * tive- perusal .
lh the nineteenth ( Matt , xyu 21 , ) preached on Good Friday , and separately printed , many years since the doctrines of the Providence of God and the fee agency of man , are discussed with
no common talent . This sermon , if we mis talc e not , was animadverted on by Di \ Priestley : and it is remarkable that Bishop EL here speaks of that celebrated man in much handspttner and juster terms than he afterwards employed .
The twentieth ^ too , has already appeared before the public : it is upon the difficult text , I Pet . iiu ' 18 , J 9 > 20 , and attempts to shew that Christ's disembodied spirit descended , in the interval between
* Some passages in thit discourse ^ which was nrst published sobh after the delivery ol it , called ifortivthe severe but nieVited strictures of the late Gilbert Wakefield . Se ? his Life ( vol . i . pp . % & % ~ a 88 , ) which contains his opinion oC cine specimen of the Bishop ' s critical learning m thfe oontrorrci % witk Mr . Pricfitlcr *
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Z ) r , Horsley ' s Sermons . 259
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/43/
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