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REVIEW. ** Still pleas'd to praise, yet not afraid to blame*—Pops*. *
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A AT . h- ~ British Pulpit Eloquence : a Selection of Sermons , in Chronological Order , from the Works of the most eminent Divines of Great Britain , during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ; with Biographical and Critical Notices . Vol . I . 8 vo # pp . 470 . Gale , Curtis and Fenner , Paternoster Row . 1814 . The theologians whose lives and
discourses compose this volume have so long enjoyed an undisputed reputation , that our praise would be superfluous if not assuming . They are aptly described in the beautiful language of an
tastem sage : — Leaders of the people by their counsels , and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people , wise and eloquent in , their instructions . —All these
zoere honoured in their generations mnd xvere the glory of their times . It is well observed by the ano-Dymous editor , in his preface , that ** utility of a chronological selection of British Pulpit
Eloquence cannot be doubted . " He adds , that ' * it can scarcely fail of inspiring candidates for the niu ' nistry with the laudable ambition of excelling in their high professipn , or of pointing out to them , tfee true road to .. distinction . " At
the same time , readers of every description may indulge a curiomy , highly natural * by acquainting themselves with the style , the sentiment ? , and the story of those to whom other ages have listened with improvement and delight .
This Selection , passing by earlier preachers , much of whose language has now beCQttie obso-
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lete , commences with Richard Hooker , whose piety and learning adorned the reign of Elizabeth ? He died in 1600 , in his 47 th year , taken from the world in the
midst of his days . From tha scarcity of incidents in the unambitious life of a retired scholar , the biographical notices of Hooker are unavoidably short . Yet ih « editor has condensed into the fbL
lowing paragraph a mass of just reputation offered to his memory by various contributors . « tf Hooker has left behind , him a rare character for simplicity of mind , strength of understanding , purity of heart , benevolence of life and warm and unaffected piety * His main work , the
Ecclesiastical Polity * though a fragment * sprung up at once into public favour * and has maintained its place amongst standard English books . It is controversial but not uncharitable * an 4 abounds in deep thoughts and manly eloquence . Pope Clement VIII . pro- * €
nounced of it , that it would get reverence by age , and that there are in it the seeds of eternity / Three successive English sovereigns , Elizabeth , the first James and the first Charles , were professed amirers of Hooker : th « . last unhappy prince recommended him
to the study of his son , Charlc * II . And his name is scarcely ever used by our best writers but with certain epithets which denote the highest respect * as Learned , or Judicious , or VenTable , or Immortal . Of his style , Bisjbop Lowth says , in the Preface to hi * Introduction to English Grammar , * that
in correctness , propriety and purity , ha hath hardly ever * been surpassed , or even equalled by any of his successors : * and Bishop Warburton , in his book on the Alliance bet wet 11 Church and State , often quotes from him , and calls him . ? the excellent , the admirable , the best good man of our order . * " Pp » 3 f 4 *
Of Hooker ' s Sermons only seve n have been published . The an * he < r # selected i $ Qn Priit from
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Review. ** Still Pleas'd To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame*—Pops*. *
REVIEW . ** Still pleas'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame *—Pops * . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 489, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/41/
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