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kwt . l .--British Pulpit Eloquence . ( Concludedfrom p ^ 492 . ) Jeremy Taylor is succeeded in this selection by Henry More , of whose discourses u one octavo volume was published after his death * in i 6 o 2 by his friend Dr . Worth i ngton . ' The s u bjec t of this Fourth serraon is Pure
Rehgtoriy ftfcm James i . 27 ; and the reader of it will , probably , justify the present editor in claiming for the preacher , notwithstanding " some extravagancies ,
and too many metaphysical ideas , philosophical allusions , and learned expressions , " the praise of ^ much true and spirited elo . quence . " - We can quote only the ftttowifig short specimen :
" Let not our souls « cleave unto thedtitt / nor be * spilt upon the ground ^ as , jfche prophet David sometimes complains ; b « t be as the rayes of the sun , which though , they reach to the earth s tfnknot in the earth ; but being fast 6 * t « t their fountain , or not , the sun tacMV do alwayes moire whither he
car-W thfim . Let u& also acknowledge < fcur own original which is from above , * n < l move vvith God and the Lamb , * ^ h » resoever-they go . Let us be so pure afi ' flot to drown , ourselves in the muddy ^^ am . oi thia transien t world : Jet us dc so charitable as to wade in it , that <* jtes be not drowned . " P . 197 .
Heni : y More was a philosophi - cal divine who discovered no a ^ itidri bevond the desire of inwieptuaiand ipqraf improvement . Ills biography cannot fail to please ^^ ^ Irucl ; , though his life affords aot the interest produced by a variety of condition . He was b in 16 14 , and « bred up to
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T , his i 4 th year , " as he relates * c under parents and a master thai were great Calvinists , but withal very pious and good ones # " He was soon patronized by an uncle * , who did not even spare the ro < fe
when his nephew disputed against Calvinistical predestination , whichi More ,, not very accurately de * scribed , as synonimous to / € && « Calvin ' s predestiuatioo may pro *> pose an end unworthy the Father of all and by means unbecoming
his perfections , as they # re re « r vealed in the scriptures ; yet , vfm apprehend , it is something veryi different from the heathen fate , u > which Jupiter himself was subject ^
More ' s u mighty and immo * r derate thirst after knowledge , " hi * fond , but unfounded , expectations of " poetical immortality , " his ; devotion to privacy , and , indifference to clerical emolument or dis »
tinction , so obstinate that even mitre and crozier 9 glittering in his sight , could not gaiiit his accept tance;—for an account of these . wa must refer , or rather invite , our readers to the biography before
us , confining our quotations to the last scenes of this Christian philosopher . , c " Dr . More possessed * vigorous coth stitution of body and enjoyed through ^ life a regular state of health 5 c his ua ^ ture suck at last , exhausted rattier % y
intense application of mind than by ol 4 l age . He expired , after an , illness of somq months , on the 1 st of September , 1687 , in his 7 &rd year , and was buried two days after in the chapel of Chrises € oli ] cge . Diseata had in some measure affected his spirits , but his dying framo was pleasant and instructive . The re
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** Sfili pleas'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame . —Pope * *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 559, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/35/
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