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sented to the public in a separate farnru Addressing his audience from 1 John iii . 3 . the Right Reverend preafcher lays down the proposition that ii certain
exquisite sensations of delight produced by external objects acting upon corporeal organs , will constitute some part of the future happiness of the just / ' This doctrine he en _ deavours to establish by the aid of considerations derived from the
frame of man , and by what he presumes to be the explicit assertions of the Holy Scriptures . He
then expatiates on the nature and qualifications of heavenly bliss , and after speaking of the purity which it supposes and requires , makes a transition to the claims of
the charity which has just been mentioned . We cannot so far compliment his memory -as to say that he has unfolded his reasoning with all the delicacy of thought and language which was demanded by the magnitude of his subject and the situation of his hearers .
He insists on 2 Cor . v . 10 , which passage , he contends , has lost " somewhat in our public translation of the precision of the dtigilial text , " and which he would ren « -
der " We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ , that every one may receive the things in the body , according to that he hath done , whether good or bad . " But the alteration is both
unwarrantable and unnecessary * The sin * , gle , though usually respectable authority of the Syiiac version , ( for it has really no countenance fro * n the Vulgate , ) cannot support it : and whoever will look into Schleusner ' s Lexicon , &c .
r * Compare with the above text Ephc 8 v vi . 8 .
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under the word $ kk , No , , will find that this preposition has
exactly the same force . in other texts of the New Testament . T <* [ sciL tf £ 7 fp < zy [/ , sva ] bioc re gw \ u £ Iq $ ^ are * the deeds done throughout the whole course of mortal life . *
The doctrine of the 44 th and last sermon from Rom . xiii . 1 ,. when divested of the pomp of styte , the parade of argument , the fierceness of invective , and the bitterness of execration with which it is
delivered , amounts to littlemore than this—that in ordinary times obedience to the civil magistrate , is a religious duty . This lesson we had long since welcomed , more clearly illustrated as it is , and
more soberly and cautiously qualified , by Paley . Our Bishop , preaching before the House of Lords on Jan . 30 th , 1793 , deems it seasonable to censure , with a lofty air , " the freedom of dispute
in which for several years past it hath been the folly in this country to indulge , upon matters of such high importance as the origin of government and the authority of sovereigns /* Such a discourse , at
such a period , was sure of being soon printed , at the request of the noble and right reverend audience : aqd jas the prelate , at the conclusion of it , had pronounced upon certain reputed levellers and
republicans this episcopal curse- ^ - " they have no claim upon our brotherly affection : upon our charity they have indeed a claim : Miserable men ! they arc in the
gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity . 19 Mr . Hall , then of Cambridge , thus noticed , in the preface to his Apology Jbr the Freedom of the Press , % c . both parts of the Anathema : «• With respect to the first , we tnnet
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SSo Review . B —ishop Horslc ^ s Sermons .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/52/
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