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which paternal affection could have raised * Apart from the affecting event which the reader associates with them , the Discourses are interesting , and on the young , for whose benefit they were written , must be deeply
impressive . The conclusion of the second Discourse exhibits an extraordinary as well as melancholy coincidence : we shall give it , together with the Notes of Mr . Belsharn , the Editor :
u I have just suggested the vast accumulation of the motives to virtue arising from the connexion of this life with a future 3 and I shall conclude this discourse by urging the very great uncertainty of human life , as a motive for earnestness and seal in the practice of virtue . A very
recent and most melancholy event adds feeling to the conviction that not a moment ought to be lost , even by the youngest of tis in order to prepare ourselves for our final home . You have , no doubt , anticipated my reference tb the very deeply-lamented death of the Princess Charlotte of
Wales and that of her infant son . * M To her the attention and pleasing * hopes of the nation have been naturally directed for many years . Her excellent dispositions endeared lier to Britons , and
gave them the most flattering promises of future , though distant , good to the nation . These hopes , alas ! are now entirely blighted by the deplored death of this amiable Princess : and for reasons
inscrutable by us , bat certainly most wise and benevolent , it has been ordained that her infant offspring * should Tall ( as we view things ) an untimely sacrifice to the king 1 of terrors . So unexpected and so awful
an event has , no doubt , struck a panic through the kingdom . But let it be recollected that we are Christians , and have the most substantial grounds for trustingin the livinsr God . He is the actual ruler
and governor of all nations , the King of kings and Lord of lords . The measures and events of all nations are under his controul . And believing that he is infinitely wise in all his measures , and
perfectly good in all his purposes , we have reasons for the most consoling confidence under every event of his government . At the same time we cannot fail to sympathize in the sorrows thus excited . And finally ,
* a This melancholy news arrived et Warrington on Saturday morning , and was communicated to the Author of this discourse while he was composing it , and made a very deep impression upon his wind . "
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my fellow-christians , may this awful event be so wisely improved by us , that , know , ing that the race is not to the swift , nor the battle to the strong , we may seize bold of the present moment , experience the wisdom and blessedness of virtue , and he prepared
to obey the summons of death , whenever it may arrive , as a passport to a better lan ^ where sickness , and sorrow , and affliction , and pain , and crying , and mourniug shall be done away , and glory from the eternal throne shall fill everlasting ages . God grant it . Amen . " ?
Mr . Robberds ' s short Address at the Interment is throughout peculiarly happy . An Advertisement , by the Editor , explains the reason of the publication , and pays a just tribute of praise to the much-lamented Author .
A beautiful Portrait is prefixed , the first impression from the plate from which the portrait at the head of this Volume was struck off .
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766 Review . ' —Dr . Philippss Sermon before the UnitarmtiFund .
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Art . V . — Victory over the World , through Faith in Jesus , the Son of God . A Sermon , preached at the Unitarian Chapel , in Artillery Lane ,
London , on Wednesday * May \ S 9 1818 , before the Friends and Sup ~ porters of the Unitarian Fund' By Nathaniel Philipps , D . D . 12 mo . j 3 p . 36 . Hunter and Eatont i iHIS sermon is entitled to aa JL equal rank with those that the same annual occasion has brought before us . The preacher explains the nature of faith in Jesus as the Son of God , arid then descants upon its holy and happy influence . In the former
part of the discourse he shewa himself an enlightened and judicious critic * His remarks ( pp . \ S—15 ) upon I John v . 20 , 21 , are particularly worthy of attention : no impartial person can read them without being convinced that in this place the apostle
, I ,, . - ¦ ¦ - .,-, ., ' - ¦ ¦•* * Within six hours after the pious author had written this affecting peroration , he himself was very suddenly and nneju pectedly re in o ted out of this world . He had finished his composition at midnight * and read over the last paragraph to a friend
who was with him ; after which he retired to rest in his usual health and spirits ^ to ii « 6 no more till that day when all who are in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God and shall crime forth » Bldwed is that set rant whjom liia Xor 4 vtlhea fe ® conieth shall fifed lo doing * "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 766, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/38/
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