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Habak . ii , 4 . Our limits scarcely afidifr il ^ ft < rtati 6 nV W €% itt ; hdw-^ yel ^ ^ yjuCe tire'JpllpWrii ^ short passage , to shew that Hooker , while he kept the noiseless tenor
tifMs way , was not inattentive to the passing scene . Speaking of Pride the preach . et remarks : ,, tc When we have examined thoroughit ' ¦ ^ J - » - ' ^ J '
. . . _ . ly , what the nature of this vice is , no m&n knowing it can be so simple as oot to see an ugly shape thereof apparent tiiany times in rejecting honours cgfered , more than in the very exacting © TOiiem at the hands of men . For as
Judas his care for the poor was meer « Nr £ tousa « ss ; and that frank-hearted Wsstfulaess spoken of in the gospel , t ^ fifej so , there is no doubt , hut that going in rags may be pride ? and thrones fet cloathed With unfeigned humility , ' ' P-l 6 . ^
3 : e Th xeign of James has not furju ^ hed one specimen of Bri tish Pulpit Eloquence . Of Bishop j ^ nftfigws ^ a preacher celeb rated |^ $ ^ rft age , there is * indeed , a volume of sermons . From the
peculiarity of their style , which , £€ fcWding to Fuller , depended for Its effect on -th « manner of the pxe ^ cher , the editor probably considered them as unsuitable to his purpose . The second sermon in | tijs Selection , which is On the ifi&e of Riches } is Irom the pen of Ghillmgworth . He was born two
years after the death of Hooker , And died in 1644 , in his 43 d year , li | # e Hooker , a fair example of that honourable age , which is not measured by number ofdays but computed by wisdom and an un »
spotted life * We forbear to , add any quotation from the comprehensive biographical account of this extraordinary man , which pric / edea the sermon , as his life a . rid writings have"lately occupied n * t a few < rf ear pages *
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The third sermon , on the Mirm * cte ^ ef ike JMtfie Mtr bfiliik B& * drawn froyn , the cQpif > iis stores oC Pulpit 1 ^ 1 oquenc « , in the woikd of Jeremy Taylor , the Hon ^ r of Diyin . " es , as Mrk Granged entitles him . This serxnori " is of more than ordinary length /* tho . sen by the editor far * ' this circumstance , " beingalso in his
opinion , " one of the best of the author ' s sermons , ' * and ^ answering the design of a ^ roi ^ i o ^ controversy . ^ We are aware
how diflScult , if not impractical ble , must have been the flrtl ; tc « complishment of k design , so v ^ ej ^ suited to a publication like that before us . For instance ^ - tl ^ Tfii are mafty Christians ^ we tritist ^ ail increasing niinjber , wfeq i ^ u | 3
not agree t # . * vindicate the ways of God to man" upon the plan of the following elo ^ tijfe tit pJ 0 ts ^ aig 6 5 Hii which , as in the fevii ^ C ^ iii ^ f of Milton , ' , "" ' ' . ] - * '" ' 7 V ^ . ^" j 5 : ^ God the Father ticrriS ** ichbol-dfotofc int
cc It was a mighty 0 l ^ vnity ^ %£ ** was to undergo , wtiep "hi tjiit made him , armed himself agaiRst his crcatare . which would have digd p ^ turned id nothing , if he had but wiBhdriawti th $ miracles and the ¦ a l ^ i ^ ht ^|^ B ; '' i dF ' . 3 bi ^ power . If God had taken his arm from under him , man had . jpfcrfeixed . |' Vtfe it was therefore a greater evijMfiiJein Gtti laid his arm upon him and againstIfirijj and seemed to support tilM thai R ^ might be longer killing 111 jn . Jh tW ^ midst of these sadnesses God
remeitibered his own creature , and pitied it f and by his mercy resetted hirn fro hi [ ifit hand of his power , and tfie ^ & qrd ; rf his justice , and the guilt of his phiil ^ tl rrient , and the disorder of his sin , anil placed him in that order of good things where he ought to have stood . It mi rritircy that preserved the noblest ' of God ' s creatures here below * , he wh « stood condemned and undone under
all the other attributes of God , was only saved and rescued by his mercy : that it may be evident that ' God ' s jaer-
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4 M Review . —British Pulpit Eloquence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 490, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/42/
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