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NOTICES OF FOREIGN THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE.
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on behalf of the noblest of Dissenting charities . One reflection of the preacher ' s -shews how great an interest eyery Dissenting Minister , whatever be his present station , may have in this Fund :
" Such , indeed , is the instability of all human affairs and events , that the aged daughter of Dr . Chandler , its eminent founder , is now , by the special bounty of the Trustees , a dependent on the Fund for her support . "—P . 16 .
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[ We have various channels of information on the literature , and especially the theology , of Foreign countries , and finding by experience that we cannot safely trust to our last sheet for the communication of this important species of intelligence , temporary questions so often giving rise to papers the insertion of which , on account of their
immediate though perhaps local interest , cannot be deferred , we judge it best to open a new chapter of our work corresponding to the title above given . The department of " Intelligence " will be continued usualbut in this
as ; new department we shall insert JNbtices of Foreign Literature , especially Theological and Biblical . In this particular , as in some others , the Monthly Repository will be distinguished from all
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the spirit of the Christian religion . " Under these heads the proper characters of revealed truth are well described , and towards the conclusion the- preacher says , with a boldness becoming an able advocate of pure Christianity ,
" If instead of these characters , 1 saw in that which professed to be revelatio n from God , opposing facts , contradicting principles , palliatives of vice , discouragement of virtue , a substitution of modes of worship or forms of faith , of any thing whatsoever for piety of heart , the habits
of virtue , and the performance of moral duties , or if I saw in it doctrines which could not be received without rejecting reason , perplexing conscience , and shaking the foundations of morality , 1 should think it a duty which I owed to myself , to society , and to God my Creator and
my Judge , to appeal from it to that law of God which is inscribed upon , the heart of every man . Be this , I should say , my revelation from God , till it shall please the great Author of my nature to grant
me one which shall prove its authenticity and authority , by enlightening and not confounding my understanding , by building up , not breaking down , the best and noblest part of man , the moraL constitution of his mind . "—Pp . 21 , 22 .
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other periodical works . Great care will be taken that the foreign literary intelligence , here communicated , be correct . We invite the assistance of such of our readers as have
correspondents abroad , or have access to the journals and other publications of the continents of Europe and America . Ed . ]
GERMANY . The new Ecclesiastico-laic Order , whi £ h has been some time established at Vienna , appears to have a tendency to a religious and political faith , like voice
that of the Jesuits . The public names persons , distinguished by their rank and influence , who have entered into this pious association . We are assured that the new Journal , an-
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Art . V . The Faith and Practice of Christians tried by the Spirit of the Religion of Christ . A Sermon
preaohed before the Southern Unitarian Society , at Chichester , on Tuesday , July 11 , 1820 . By John Morell , \ LL . D . 8 vo . pp . 26 . Printed by Baxter , Lewes .
TT ^ R . MORELL pursues the inte-JiJ resting subject of this discourse ( from Mark vii . 9 ) " by consulting the Christian Scriptures" to <( learn from them what is the proper spirit of the religion of Jesus , " " by reviewing the worship and the morality of the Christian world in times past and present , " to see " they have been , and if they are , instructed and animated by
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242 Notices of Foreign Theological Literature .
Notices Of Foreign Theological Literature.
NOTICES OF FOREIGN THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/50/
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