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    ^ U 9 engaged we sliQulddiv £ st , qur-^^ LS :. ^^^ ^ oF aM ^ jiis ^ es which may lead us a si ray : aj ^ pyg shf ^ d * regard ourselves " as ip th ^ presence f ^ f tjhatpeiqg who knows pv ^ r hearts 5 and should pray fo him ^> r &s ; ass istance in this employment . JVfay wfe bepermitted to subjoin a division more strictly , textual of the passage on which Dr . Price has treated in this discourse ? ^ rp ^ li the word s , " Search me , &c . \* re learn .

    - ;**> $ .- Tfeat t * te state of m « o ' s religions cfeftr * aeU * rft , entirely depends on tb < J nature ofwf&e ffcrUuii f ries and motives by whicli they mre actuated j and it i& therefore of tketi utmbst cojosequence to know what tive&c principles and motives are ; ii * That , white we ai ? e axde # tl * eqgaged

    ir ^ fc ^ e fe i ^ siuesLS pr ^ e pleasures o % life , | t i ^ Otl t ^ a . $ *» & £ £ J ^ U £ h d ^ ffipvilty ito trace the matives ofour actions ; , * X . ^ ~ > - ' . < . ^ """¦¦ "¦ f t-. / ¦ ' , ' ¦ C - •* y . . --iii . Tiiat , wfce | i we attempt fo examine ttiejn ^ we are su&jejct , froni various causes , to inucn error in the sct ^ i&y t : and it is jjbssfbte tt * 4 i ; , wftile we iihagrne ddiselVes t ^ Be ^' fta ^ n ^ f by g 66 d motives / w ^ really tite Actuated by sbme ^ wbfch we

    i ^ yro ^ eiaf « r ^ rimiflal . There may be > a H ^ ste ki cked uxtp ; btii ¦ > iv . 'Fbatby ? the frequent submission of ouraeJv ^ to the I > iviue investigation iu oor Jlottrs of retirenieot , \^ e shal l be well prepared | o ascertain * th * purity of our vt ^ w ^» to lay the foundation o ^ i- ^ hlCeoHsn , e «^ oi clvaracter , and to be led into Me « tf « y e ^ eriastif ^^

    '"Theeighth discourse ( from Gal . vj . 4 . ^ But let every man prove his own work , & ? 6 t ") is ** on having our re ^ jofemg in o * irselves : tf In considering ^ V h ^ tt it is in ourseiv ^ es which is the rtroper ^> nndation of our happiness .

    it en ay be observed in general that it rt % u « t be grounded on the good order of tfie mind , and of it ' s powers and aHectiom : this happiness is " the refeultof a < 5 ommaxuliMg reason and ^>« di en t passions , of an applauding € 6 ft ^< mce fl ^ dan honest heart , of a

    Fn 4 nd safisMed with itself , and pos * s ^^ ihg health , order and itidepend-^ be i of tt ' t ©« npet formed by the ge # ief ^ t » i aiftctions , - © f conteruUneMt , rt&ferijitkMK , Ufii&lun < siod , a gejase of h ^ ' lov ^ i ^ s % e belief tYi&t all is well \ StK « ter his ^ bv ^ rnrpent , and rfie 1 hope of ^ Wrvivuig < 4 ta&tlt , 'attd ^ of being raised nftfi hereafter' th * € * affh ^ the power of

    ( M ^ W a 4 ttfe of iitkJkan ^ eable and WettiriCfrcftw *^ happuvess ^ ami the dT . , V /'

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    advantages of .. $ hf 3- happiness are tha \ t is firm and stabJe , pure and eb * va | : ed . \^ In the concluding paragraphs / Of this sermon a-fine cohtrast is drakv ^ between the state of the good ana that of the wicked man : we lament that our limits do not permit us ta place it before our readers . One of the most admirable djsr courses in the volume , is the ninth , * ' on the ignorance of man , and the proper improvement of it . " From the very pertinent text , Job viij . 9 , cc I * or we are hut of yesterday and kn 6 w nothing / ' Or . Price lays before his hearers and readers . a general representation of the imperfection of ^ oioi knowledge . We know , for instance ,.

    little of ourselves , of our bodies and Our minds ,, of the reason why our witls instantaneously produce motion , in our members , of the connection between certain impressions on < W 4 £ organs of sense ^ , and the sensatipha which follow them , of the original spiings of animal life wjthin us , th ^ . Ia ^ vs of union between the soul and

    the body , the nature of death , * . » X ^ the particular state into which it pwtsi us . further ; we know Jitile of tbS ^ ^ arth and it * s constitution and TurnP

    ture . Almost all that we see o £ things is their outsides . ^ Ve ca niiot discern a millionth part of the ^^ and workmanship in the lowest plant r ' . Still , less do we know of the solar .

    system , and next to nothing of th ^ universe . Xhere are numberless systems besides this in which our lof i& cast , many of them probably mpr * grand and beautiful . Kven couTd ' w £ take in the complete prospect pf G < xJ * s works , there would yet remaiix

    unknpwn , " adds the preacher , * " an infimty of abstract truths and ^ o ^ air bles . " Again ; though tl > e course rf events is under the best cUre . c ^ i ^ n ^ we are very ignorant of the plan ana conduct of Divine Providence in tfi $ Of

    government of the universe ^ puc ideas of the Deity himsdlO * w notJl » W ^ to say that they are iin perfect atw inadequate : they are dou ^> tle ^ s 'in many particular ^ highl y errbnepus t Xo us his nature and © s ^ ejfrce a ^ rc alji soKuely unfaiKomabfe . ^ Taiie ;' !! i ^

    together , our know ledge * beara" jffcji | the sairie proportion to our ignotaji ^ that an instant does to e ^ rftity , df a point , to i m mensity . And ini $ im * perfectlou . of our fuicftvUdge ia pla \ tl !

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    Retficuiir- 'Pfip es Sermons , 4 |

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 47, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/47/