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it , we presume , from the Lady * s Magazine , ) which is the boast of the Caledonian orator . The early Reformers , according to Mr * Burns , were in the Jewish rather than the Christ tian state . The misrepresentations of Christ ' s law which / Mr . Burns changes upoii Mr . Jrvitfg , are , that it is riot
literally practicable ; that it is inexorable in its ultimate judgment ; that beifig broken , justice requires satisfaction and that this has been given by Christ , and that it is not fulfilled by acts of beneficence . The Argument for Judgment and the Sermon on the Mount are then put in contrast
in parallel columns . On the subject of the Fall , too , Mr * Burns arraigns Mr . Irving * of servile submission td the authority of the elders : and he concludes with sotne strictures upon the orators description of the state after death and his picture of the joys of lleaven , which his Censor pronounces to be very Mahometan .
This writer is one of the very few who think for thetaselvea : he subscribes to no system . It is too much , to hope that Mr . Irving or his ad * takers will profit by his strictures \ but there are some readers to whom the pamphlet will be acceptable and useful .
We can give only one short specimen : the passage relates to the third part of Mr . Irving ' Argument , viz ., the provision made for reconciling the justice and mercy of God in his treatment of mankind . * ' But I know very well what you would be at . You want to conjure down
that phantom of your own raising , ( so far as your argument supports it , ) the terrible and bltfody law ; the Inexorable justied of an implacable tyrant ; and to make us believe , that Christ accomplished this by obeying the behests of your law * and suffering the penalties inflicted by
such justice , iri our behalf . When once you have brought the mind into such bondage , something like your remedy may be needful to deliver it again ; but denying as I do ytmr doctrine of * law and jiistrce , I need not trouble myself about the metaphysical jargon and artificial
feeling , by which you deliver men from this Egyptian darkness of your own making . And think nor > my dear Sir , to twit me , as is customary on such occasionsj , with want of respect for our blessed Lord and his sacrifice , as it is called ; confining the idea to this point , ' I know
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in whom I have believed , ' t am perfectly indifferent to the cry of * Lo ! here is Christ , or lo ! there ;* as if he was only jo be found under a consecrated wafer of bread , or under certain forms of speech and scholastic categories , consecrated in the ages of barbarism , and called orthodoxy . " —Pp . 24 , 25 .
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Art . IV . —Devotional li&ercises , consisting of Reflections and Prayers for the Use of Young Persons ; to which is added , A Treatise on the Lord ' s Stepper , By a Lady . Norwich printed . Sold in London by Hunter . 3 s . 6 d .
WE feel much concern and some compunction that an earlier notice has not been taken of this elegant little manual ; which is understood to be the production of a young member of one of the iftdst timae *
rotas and public-spirited families con * nected with our botiyT and we are harjpy to know that this is by no means , the only pledge which we possess , thai it vHll maintain its eminence m the coming generation . We ar& persuad&d that the excellent author of tW * Devotional Exetcises / ' which
litive sb long contributed to the main * tfctiahee of poetical religion among otir youth of both sexes , must have felt , ih comrnon with many others , a £ leasifr £ gratification on the perusal of this by ho means unsuccessful imitation of his own beautiful model .
And if it should have any effect iri stimulating him to bring forth out of his treasures his long-promised second volurne , we are sure that many a parent , and eventually many a child , will feel this circumstance as an
additional obligation . The " Thre «* Weeks * Exercises" will be considered , we doubt not , as Mutually supporting and strengthening ohe &hother . The volume btfofe us is formed , as
we have said , qli the ntodel of Mr . Wellbeloved . The subjects afe such iis hfcte most forcibly struck the author herself Ih the ebuts ^ of her religious meditations . " Eteing yet youfig , " she says , " I have a vivid retnembfanee of
the ideas and feeliftgs oh devotional subjects which , in early youth , I found to be most impressive , and to excite the most powerful emotions $ and which are by no means the same id ^ as a nd feelings which produce these effects at a mote advuriced age . I * os-
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360 Review . —DeVOfionat Exercises for the Use of Itoung Persons .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 360, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/40/
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