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    J hunibly beseech tli ^ e , to dedicate the short remainder ot my life * wholly to thee . I ask TL 6 i so much to be exempt from the weaknesses arid pairis of declining age , as

    that I may so tofidiict myself under tfhem , whatever they may be , as shall finally tend to 4 hy glory , and to promote the interests of true * and undefiled religion . Amen . Amen .

    " September , 1814 . "—P . 44 . " On her last birth-day . " June 14 th , 1821 . By thy good providence , O most merciful Father , i have this day entered into the seventy-eighth year of my age . Many indeed have been my failings and imperfections , but to thy

    goodness I am unspeakably indebted , that by the gracious arrangements of thy providence I have been uniformly preserved through the course of a long life from the guilt of wilful transgressions * The time cannot now be distant when I must render up my account , and my earnest

    prayer is , that the small remainder of my life maybe wholly dedicated to fchfce ; Hot that I may be exempted Froin th £ pains arid sufferings of the dying hour ; but that , in hutnble imitation of my Lord and Saviour , I may so sustain whatever thou mayst see lit to appoint , as not through my feebleness and want of faith in the

    precious promises of the blessed gospel , to cause the way of truth to be evil spoken of . And now , my God and Father , I . would commit the keeping of iriy soul to thee . O enable me , I humbly beseech thee , by whatever meafas thou pleasest , so to dfemean myself * that whether in life or hi death * thy name ina £ be glorified . Ameh . Ameu . "—Pp . 45 , 46 .

    We rejoice to see announced by Mr . Wellbeloved , as shortly to be published , in ohe volume , 8 vo ., ' * Memoirs of Mrs . Capjte , written by Herself .

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    548 Review . —KenficWs Sermon .

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    Art . Vlfr . —The Temper and Mariner in which Inquiry into the jDoctrihes of Religion should be conducted . A Discourse delivered at Halifax , May 9 th , 1821 , before the Association of Presbyterian Ministers of

    the Jrest-Riding of Yorkshire , and the West-Riding Tract Society , and published at their Rtiqtxebt * By John Kehrick , M . A ., Yofrk : printed by Wilson , hnd sold itlXondoii by Hunter , and by Eaton . 12 ftlo . pp . 32 .

    THIS discourse is worthy of the reputation which its author has deservedly acqti&red by his former pub * .

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    JKeatiohg : * a highly important and appropriate topic , is here treated with the tare that it requires ; and Mr . fCettrick still gratifies and , instructs us by his precision of statement , his soundness of Reasoning , his compre - hension of views , and his elegance of style and riiethod . There are those ** who riiake their

    desire of hitrtian virtue the plea for their hostility to knowledge , " Who allege that the mind , " by acctistornliig itself to call every thing in question , and to suspend its belief till full evidence has been produced , conies to take a perverse pleasurfe in discovering reasons

    for doubt , and prefers the scepticism Which displays independence and originality , to the humble and Obscure duty of f-ecfciving the truth and living in obedience to it . ' * Ifc reply , however , to the individuals , who , by the ^ e pleas , Wotild brfevent mankind front

    exercising free inquiry , Mr . K . observes il that good and evil &te necessarily intferWoveii in the Divine plans , and that we iiitlst fchoose the part in which good decidedly preponderates f * and he afterwards shews " that the least

    faith , and the most relaxed morality , h&ve been found in those countries in Which the greatest pains had been taken to prevent all libetty of speculation . ' * Commenting fcn his text , ( 1 Titess . v . 21 , ) this preacher asks ,

    c If indeed there were any necessary connexion betweeh a bold inquiry aod a wavering * doubting mind , what would be the meaning of the Apostle's exhortation to prove all things , and hold fast that tbhich is good ? It would have beeri , on this supposition , an exhortation to combine things mutually inconsistent . "

    While " the liberty of thinking for ourselves is apt to be turned , like every other kind of liberty , into licentiousness , the proper remedy is to she ^ the limit between tfoe beheftcial Use and the dangerous abuse , the spirit and tempet in which out inquiries should

    he begun , ana the metnort by wnwn they should be conducted , in order that we may so prove all things as to hold fast that which is good . " To this employment Mr . K . according ly proceeds : he remarks that we must i deally be seekers after truth ; that reH" ' " * w ~ " "' " r . i »¦ — ¦ ii ¦¦¦^ ¦ .- ¦* — , M ¦ ¦—¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ i * . »« ii il I I I * Mun . Repos . IXv 238 , &c ; XII . 733 > Ac . ; XIV . 573 , Ac .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 548, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/44/