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Wood house , Evan son and others , who , since the days of Calvin , have conceived they were wise in attempting to remove the obscurity of this portion of canonical Scripture . Our M m am « " ^ k a M 4
. author certainly displays an ardent love of religious truth , and seems to have taken considerable pains in the endeavour to attain it . On this account we wish for the circulation of his book among the friends of freeinquiry .
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His own i ^ ea of the suitable pecuniary recompense of a Christian minister will not be thought extravagant : ^ No teacher of relig-ion has a scriptura l claim to more than a comfortable
subsistence for his labour ; nor will any who take the office from scriptural motives , desire more . "—P . 24 . We could , with pleasure , select other passages of this Discours e ^
which unites the qualities of manly ^ reasoning and simple eloquence , but we should be sorry to prevent the perusal of any part of it , and earnestly recommend the whole to our readers * attention * i —^ - ' - — ^—
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Art . IV . —The Kingdom of Christ distinguished from the Kingdoms of this World ; a Discourse delivered in the Unitarian ChapeU Paisley 9 July Q 6 , 1818 . By William
Kilpatrick , one of the Pastors of tfie Unitarian Church , Paisley . Printed by Hedderwick , Glasgow . THE design of this Discourse , ( from John xviii . 36 , ) preached at " the Anniversary of the Repeal of the Penal Statutes against Unitarians , " is to prove the injurious consequences of civil establishments in religion . To this cause the author ascribes the
corruptions which have disgraced the Christian system . The kingdom of Christ , he maintains , is essentially different from the kingdoms of this world , in its origin , its nature , and its objects .
" Ecclesiastical power , with all its pretensions to divine authority by apostolic succession , would have heen treated with contempt , as a daring * usurpation of the prerogative of Jesus Christ , had the
sword of the spirit heen left to decide the controversy ; but the sword of the spirit was exchanged for the sword of steel , that irresistible argument , which never fails to prove the weak to be in the wrong " , however good their cause . "—* -P . 15 .
After a quotation from Paley ^ s chapter in defence of Establishments , we meet with the following passage : " When we look into the New Testament , do we see any thing- like a fund , distributed into prizes of different value , to allure men of talents to enter the
church , and to stimulate to industry those who are already in it ? Paul does , indeed , speak of a prizes which he pressed forward to obtain , but it was very different from the Doctor ' s : it was * the prize of the high
calling of God iii Christ Jesus , ' which he elsewhere calls * the crown of righteousness , * anjd which the Apostle Peter calls c crown of glory that tfadeth not away . * "—1 \ 18 ,
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Review . —Kilpatrich and Wardlaw ' s Sermons . 641
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~——Art . V , —Hie Contemplation of Heathen Idolatry an Excitement to Missionary Zeal ; - a Sermon ,
preached ( from Acts xyiu 1 ( 5 ) before the Missionary Society at Surrey Chapel , May 13 thp 1818 . By Ralph Wardlaw , of Glasgow . 8 vo . Is . Williams .
THE preacher of this Sermon is known to our readers as the antagonist of Mr . Yates , and the defender of modern orthodoxy . We willingly concede to him the character of a sincere and conscientious
man , of an impressive and animated preacher . We are happy to coincide with him in the general object of his Sermon , the endeavour to animate his fellow-christians to the conversion of Heathen idolaters 3 and cordially rejoice in the effects which have already been produced by the fervent zeal and unwearied industry of the missionaries . We are particularly interested in the labours of Marshman
and Carey , from whom such satisfactory information has recently reached us , in translating the Holy Oracles . Our readers , on these accounts , will excuse a fuller notice than we usually take of a single discourse . The exordium reflects credit both on the writer ' s taste and feeling :
cc On a promontory , formed by the confluence of two classical rirers ^ stood Athens , the glory of ancient Greece . High in political eminence , arid in military fame , it was still mare distinguished
for the learning , the eloquence , and the polished refinement of its inhabitants ^ and for the number , variety and excellence of the works of art produced or collected within its wall * ; for those magnificent
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 641, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/41/
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