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lie ? ton * in evfcvy tiring that regard * your-• elvei and your , sublunary interests , to be making' progress 5 without labour , witboiiteare , witjbout desiie to becooie more capable of serving those who are withiu the sphere of your l > eneficence ? Can your capacities of usefulness be actually though
not intention ally enfarg-ed , and yet your good works become neither more numerous , nor more perfect ; neither more , nor greater ? Cau you content yourselves to have more of the sources of human happiness within your power , and not a soul of the human race be the more happy for it ? " P . 435 .
"What a difference between Christ and Christians ; between his life and their lives ; between his sentiments and theirs \ What a contrast , between the constancy , the ardour , the perfection of his beneficence \ and the interruptions , the languors , and the blemishes of theirs ! How deplorable is the dissimilitude that appears between the exemplar that is proposed
unto the sons of men , and many who avow the obligation , and even make profession of conforming- to it ! How glaring * is the opposition between his activity , and their indolence in doing- good ; between his usefulness , and their self-indulgence ; between his disinterested zeal in works of charity and kindness , and their undiverted application to the gains and profits of the world ! P . 437 .
These sermons are presented to the public by the pious hand of affection , itnd we join most cordially in the earnest prayer of the Editor Mrs . Cappe , " that by a wider circulation , sentiments like these , so serious and awful ,
yet at the same tune so just and important , may eventually contribute to form in many others those habits of diligence , of resignation , and piety , which were a source of continual satisfaction to himself , and of consolation , hope , and joy , when all other consolations failed . " P . 130 . Note .
This volume of practical sermons consists principally of Hour series of discourses : the first on Christian Perfection \ the second on the Final Con-* et } uences of our present Conduct ; the third on the Imperfection of our Knowledge concerning God ; and the fourth on the great Importance of the public
Ministry of Christy They are all very ptpp&flj styled practical sermons , but with some difference of character notwil ^ tauding . into the third series on the i ^ ipierfesfcion of our knowledge concerning God , the nature of the subject bag thrown a mixture of specafot ion ^ but the speculation is chastirt&d and reverential , neither presumptuous ii < w * timid , always piou * and
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sometimes original . In tlie la # t series on the'importance of thte public Miaistry of Christ , the * r readtelv * who is acquainted with the «* Critical * Remarks oft many important Passages 6 f *
Scripture , " by the same ^ auHlidTv "wilfcreeflg . nise with pleasure the saine ingenious and satisfactory * nbde of illustrating the language of the New Testament On the whole , we cannot better
explain the leading objects of these discourses , than as the editor has explained them in her preface , " simply to demonstrate tlie unspeakable importance of holiness of heart and
life ; of piety , humility aiid benevolence ; of attaining * to that truly CJhinstian coriiprehension of mind , which habitually locrks forward , beyond the present to the iuture . " Pref . p . 10 .
And after the specimens which we have laid before our readers , it is superfluous to add our recommendation of what must so well recommend itself to the pious and intelligent of every Christian denomination .
The volume is dedicated in a very sensible arid affectionate address to the Divinity and Lay-students , educated in the "Dissenting College , York ; and in addition to the reasons alleged by the editor , her dedication of it has this propriety , that it offers to their
perusal the discourses of an e ^ mineirj ; Christian Minister , written in itie pure and ardent spirit of his religion , and in a style Which has nothing in common with the false eloquence that often seduces the young and sometimes dazzles the old , that incumbers truth with
ornament which ft does not require , and invests in a gaud y rhetoric subjects too lofty to be raised by a metaphor , and interests too grave and momentous to be decked in flowers .
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104 Review . — 'Cwpfs Discourses .
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Art . V A Sertnon on Free Inquiry in Matters of Religion . By W . J » Fox , 18 rno . Pp . 24 . A At . VI . —A Reply to Popular Objections against Unitarianism : A Sermon preached at Bristol , on Wednesday , June 21 , 1815 , before the Western Unitarian Soc iety . Py W . J . Tfox , 12 mo . £ p . 48 . Hunter and Eaton .
IT is difficult to speak of these aer-„ mons as they deserve , w ithout running into the style of extravagant panegyric . Mr . Fox is always master of hi * subject , master of hi * teinp <*
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/40/
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