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propriate style of the awkward censor , " the lady-politicians of the modern day , ' " Happy , ' * says he , " would it be for the country and for the world if every female would emulate the qualities of a distinguished character of
former times , ' a mother in Israel / who thus explained her pretensions to Joab , I am one of those that are peaceable-and faithful in Israel" ( P . 55 . ) Now , really , there is deep but scarcely concealed Radicalism in this
recommendation ; for " the mother in Israel " was no other than the wise woman ( 2 Sam . xx . 16—22 ) who proved her peaceableness and fidelity by using her eloquence to procure the destruction of a troubler of her native city : Then
the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom , and they cut off the head of Sheba , the son of Bichri , and cast it out to Joab , We are no friends to turbulent Reformers , but neither are we to the
thoroughgoing , unblushing advocates of ichatever is ; and we deprecate sermons like this , from whichever side they come , as tending to exasperate men ' s minds , and to prevent those temperate and healing measures by which alone the distresses of the country can be cured or alleviated .
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Art . VII . — The Resurrection from the Dead , an Essential Doctrine of the Gospel : and the Neglect of it by reputed Orthodox Christians an Argument against the Truth of their System , By Richard Wright , Unitarian Missionary . 12 mo . pp . 38 . 1820 .
IN the design of this little pamphlet there is something of novelty ; and the argument i 3 forcibly as well as ingeniously put . We can imagine minds that resist the impression of particular texts of Scripture , but would nevertheless be affected bv this
reasoning from the undisputed object of the Christian revelation , and by the contrast here exhibited between apostolic and modern sermons ; and therefore we cordially recommend Mr-Wright's tract to the perusal of intelligent and candid persons of ' * reputed orthodox" predilections and partialities .
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118 Review . G ' — . Claytons Sermon . —Wright on Resurrection .
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Art . VI . — The Warning Voice ! A Sermon , preached on Sunday , Dec . 10 , 1820 , at Walworth , in Surry . By George Clayton . 8 vo . 2 nd ed . pp . 62 . Black and Co . WE have here a coarse political Sermon against the study of politics , and a violent remonstrance on behalf of quietness . In a style of vulgar flippancy , and by sad jokes and strained metaphors , the preacher endeavours sometimes to insult ,
sometimes to ridicule , and sometimes to denounce and proscribe , with what is commonly called Jacobinical fury , all the Reformers of England , including the most exalted in our aristocracy , our wisest and wealthiest commoners
and a large proportion of our educated , moral and religious public . There is , indeed , a marvellous indistinctness even in his satire , but if he do not mean all that we have stated , his oration is sound without sense . Let him attack bad
men of all parties , if he please ; but let him not , without discrimination , fling his saucy common-places , gleaned from our most depraved and venal journals , at that large body of Englishmen , of every rank and denomination ,
who , feeling deeply for their beloved country , seek to suve it by restoring in a constitutional manner the great political principles on which the Throne and the seats of justice can alone securely rest .
In his " Advertisement , " the political preacher betrays an apprehension that his doctrine is not quite English ; for he boldly avows , that if he were to exercise his functions in Westminster or at Whitehall , he might expose " grievances / ' and call for a diminution of " the onerous weight of civil and ecclesiastical taxation , under which the
nation groans . " And yet he seems to condemn , almost to future punishment , that part of this " groaning nation" who are legally endeavouring to persuade such as they send to Westminster and Whitehall to relieve this " onerous weight , " and to save the people from being ground to dust !
With a higher aim , perhaps , than he chooses to avow , this advocate of social order degrades the pulpit into a vehicle of abuse on those of the other sex that manifest public spirit , or , in the ap-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1821, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2497/page/54/
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