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of his resurrection as a proof of our omi . These various interesting topics are ably argued ; and throughout the whole of the discourse there is a striking consistency and connexion , which is one of the best but rarest qualities of a sermon *
Art . V . —Various Views of Detttk , for illustrating the Wisdom and Benevolence of the Divine Administration m candtacting Mankind through that awful Change . By the Rev . Thomas Watson - 8 vo . pp . 208 . Longman and Go . 1819 .
MR . WATSON has here compiled a truly * interesting and useful book , on the most important of all subjects . He has collected a number of striking facts , cm which he ably argues the wisdom and benevolence of Divine Providence . The obvious
tendency of the work is- to reconcile man to his lot , and to inspire him with hope . Some of the reasonings on behalf of Natural Theology are very ingenious , and the views of Christian doctrine appear to us quite scriptural . But we cannot say so much in commendation of the volume , without
adding , that the writer ' s politics have led him into certain observations in praise of military prowess , and in extenuation of the guilt , or rather in defence of the practice , of war , which we deem altogether dissonant with the strain of his work . Should another
edition be called for , which we sincerely hope will be the case , we submit it to the consideration of the respectable author , whether these passages should not be expunged , or at least modified . It is of less moment to observe , that there are many verbal inaccuracies and some glaring Scotticisms which demand correction .
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Art . VI . — The Welsh Nonconfoi * mists Memorial ' , or Cambro-British Biography ; containing Sketches of the Founders of the Protestant Dissenting Interest in Wales , fyc . Sfc \ By the late Rev . Wm . Richards , LJXD . Edited , with Notes and Illustrations , by John Evans , LL . D . 12 mo . pp . 640 . Plate . 8 * . Sherwood and Co . 1820 . npHE author whose posthumous A work is here presented to u » bjr
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Dr . Evans was a zealous Welshman * and though the " Sketches' * are incomplete , they are a valuable contri bution to Cambro-British Nonconformist Biography-The volume contains also a Sketch
of Druidism , " an interesting picture of the most singular institution : that was ever established , an ** Essay ^ oa the Introduction of the Gospel into Britain , " and an " Account of Pela * gins - / together with some minor pieces . Some of these content * were inserted in our earlier volumes . Dr .
Evans has added a " Postscript , on the Rev . J . Ivimey ' a History of the Baptists , and the Treatment of Dr . Riehards ' s Memory , " meaning by the Baptist Magazine ,, which would not even record the death of so sturdy a heretic Yet W . Richards had his
line of orthodoxy , and Unitarians ( according to a quotation from a letter * given by his present Editor , p . 498 ) were not included in it : that is , they are not generally Baptists , and baptism was a cardinal point with the worthy Gambro-Briton .
We had marked some passages for quotation , but find we must content ourselves with this brief notice of the " Memorial . " To some readers it will communicate much information , and there are few to whom some passages and papers will not impart Christum , satisfaction and even pleasure .
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Art . VII . — The EviU of Education , elucidated in a Letter to Henry Bankes , Esq ., M . P . 8 vo . pp . 48 . 2 s . Wilson . 1821 . E do not like what our neigh-W bours the French expressively
call persiflage oa subjects of grave interest to mankind . Long-continued irony , even when pointed against ignorance and superstition , appears to us to be laborious idleness . But all tastes
are not alike , and to such as relish keen sarcasm and well-sustained banter , the present will be an acceptable pamphlet . They who least approve of the author ' s mode of writing , muat admit
his talents > and tbe most ri ^ id critics may well pardon a little levity , when the object , a * here , is to shame > dawn that amtocraticaJ , prejudice ajjaiiast the Education of the People which cannot be reasoned out of the world .
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fieoiew . —Watson ' s dews of Death . —* Welsh Nonconformists * Memorial . 305
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/49/
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