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• p , - f e his crucifixion and resurrection , into hell , not theplaGe of torment , Ixut the residence of the separate souls of the . righteous ! In Nos . xxi . xxii . xxiii . the
doctrine of the sabbath ( Mark ii . 27 ) , is explained and enforced . Our author maintains ^ in opposition .-to-Paley and others , that ihe sabbath is a primaeval , and not a Jewish institution . This set of
discourses has a strong claim upon the attention of the theological inquirer . The twenty-fourth , twenty . fifth , juid twenty -sixth treat very ingeniously on the fa <; t ( John iv . 42 , ) of the . early disposition of the Samaritans to believe in the Messiah , and to receive Jesus in that
character ; and in the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth we meet with many excellent remarks on Christian perfection , ( Philipp . iii . J 5 ) intermixed , however , with observations which denote that this
preacher ' s views of theology and metaphysics were not always clear , his statements not uniformly consistent . He composed and delivered No . S 9 , on Occasion of the victory off Cape Trafalgar , ( Dan . iv . 17 . ) In refuting the notion that the government of the world is com .
niitted to angels and archangels , hp is not unsuccessful * But , he seems to have forgotten that the language of the vision , whence bis text is taken , would naturally tie borrowed from the ideas , corrector incorrect , whi « h prevailed
at the time and in the country to which it refers . Nor has he established his curious supposition , t bat by the hoty ones and the watch - ersj are meant the three persons of the mniry , or shewn the propriety * f hi $ invective against ihe u des *
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picable cant of the Puritans , " * the unlawfulness of war . The manner in which Dr . H . speaks of distinguished authors whose sentiments he has occasion to controvert is extremel y arrogant an ^ i unbecoming . - That certain Unitarian writers should &s
called by hi " rn , " . the doctors of that impious school / 7 ( vol . i . p . 19 % ) vvjil possibly excite ho sarprize ; but that he should refer to Or . Samuel Clarke as aroonji ¦ * 5 ci those who , with much
ostentation of philological learning which they possessed , and of metaphysical which they possessed not , have Composed laboured rfcmon&trations * ( as they presume to call theft ) A of-natural ' and revealed
religion , " -- ( Vol i . pp . 178 , 179 , ) and that be should rank the learned and judicious Farmer among ' * the philosophizing divines of later times , who , under the mask of zeal for ^ religion , have done it more disservice than its open ene .
imes ,- " - ( Vol i . p , 233 . ) dm , surely , is a » insolence of dogmdtism which cannot be excused even in the late Bishop of St . Asaph . His style too is sometimes coarse and vulgar , almost to ludicrousness . " We could not
suppress a simile at the following sentence ; especially as it appeared t » us descriptive of the Prelate ' s manner as a controversialist : 44 Of such hardened enemies
there is no hope till they ha ?« been hacked and hetved [ hetvn ] , belaboured , and all but slaiit ( i » the strong language of one of the ancient prophets ) by / the heavy sword of the word of terror / 1 Vol . i . p . in
Bishop H ' s audiences and readers mi ght also have been spared the picture of u the craflU »«^
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536 Review . —* JDr . HorsUy ' & Sermons .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/44/
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