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it tinder God that you stand here this day alive I Tell what in those dreadful moments were your feelings , "when on a sudden you found yourselves surrounded with the snares of death , when the gates of destruction seemed opening to
receive you , and the overflowings of your own ungodliness made you horribly afraid ! Tell what were your feelings when the bright scene of life opened afresh upon the wondering eye , and all you had suffered and all you had feared seemed vanished like a dream ! Tell
what were the mutual feelings when first you revisited your families and friends I —of the child returning to the fond parent ' s carer—of the father receiving back from the grave the joy , the solace of his age—of the husband restored to the wife of his boso n *— of the wife , not yet a
widow , again embracing her yet living lord ! Tell what are now your happy feelings of inward peace and satisfaction , sinners rescued ^ from the power of darkness , awakened to repentance , and
reconciled to God ! Your interesting tale will touch eacl ? charitable heart , and be the means of procuring deliverance for many from the like dangers which threatened your bodies and your souls . " iqq , aoo .
In No . 40 we again find Dr . H . the advocate of a public charity . This discourse , from Matt . xxiv . 12 , was preached for the Philanthropic Society in March 1 79 ^ , and was printed , if we mistake not , within the same year . It is an animated , and we believe , a faithful contrast of the manners of
the ancient Heathens with those of the Christian world and of modern times . With the exception of the Slave Trp . de ( an exception in which this country no longer shares , ) a decided preference is
given to the morals of the present day . Still , as our author remarks , ages must elapse before the means of reforming the hearts and lives of men can produce their full effect : and hence he ably enlarges on the excellencies of the institution to the service of which this eermxm was devoted .
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Of the 41 st and the 42 d , from John xx . 29 $ the incredulity of Thomas is the subject . The Bishop first considers what ground there might be for this apostle to believe the fact of our Lord ' s resurrection upon the report of the other ten apostles , before he had
himself seen him ; and from what motives it may be supposed that he withheld his assent . In the second place he professes to shew that the belief of any thing upon such evidence as Thomas at last had of Christ ' s resurrection , is a natural act of the human mind , to which nothing of moral or religious merit can reasonably be ascribed . A nd , lastly , he inquires what is the merit and at the same time what is the certainty of that faith which believes what it hath
not seen : its value he , according ^ ingly , resolves into the devotional and moral principles on which it is founded . There are parts of his argument from which we dissent : and his method of discoursing on this me . morable declaration of our Lord ' s
to Thomas , we regard as not a little circuitous and complex . The passage simply teaches that testsmony is a legitimate branch of the evidences of revelation , and that
he who admits it as such , gives proof of greater strength of mind , juster knowledge of the limits of the human faculties , more
patience of inquiry , and more fairness and humility of disposition than the man who receives nothing aa a fact but on the report of his
senses . We now come to a very curious sermon , ( the 43 d ) preached at the anniversary of the institution of the Magdalen Hospital , April 22 , 1795 , and subsequently pre-
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RevtetK- ^ Bishop Horsley V Sermon ^ . 335
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/51/
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