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    The following passages shew , what have always suspected , and have before intimated in this account of Penvs ' book , that for some time after the Resto ration , it was doubtful whether the Church of England would be 1 . 1- * n ^ tann .

    a July 26 th . Mr - Hill , of Cambridge , tells me ' that yesterday put a change to the whole state of England is to the Church ; for the King now

    would be forced to favour Presbytery , or that the city would leave him : but I heed not what he says , though upon inquiry I do find that things in the Parliament are in great disorder .

    " Aug . 3 rd . At Cambridge , Mr . Pet-hell , * Sanchy , and others , tell me how high the old doctors are in the University over those they found there , though a great deal better scholars than themselves ; for which I am very

    sorry , and , above all , Dr . Gunning . At night I took horse , and rode with Roger Pepy 3 and his two brothers to iuipington . U 4 th * To Church , and had a good

    plain sermon . At our coming in the country people all rose with so much reverence ; and when the parson begins , he begins , * Right worshipfull and dearly beloved / to us . To Church

    again , and after supper , to talk about publique matters , wherein Roger Pepys told me how basely ^ things have been carried in Parliament l > y the young men , that did labour to oppose all

    things that were moved by serious men . That they are the most propkane , swearing fellows that ever he heard in his life , which makes him tlunk that they will spoil all , and bring things into a warr again if they can . " 1 . 112 , 113 .

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    time , may t be permitted to make a remark ot \ ffvdupon a passage wH \ &tt it wfcre to be desired that the * w ' cfjthr author had rendered a little liiore ftfflt and complete than it appears to be iti its present state > Dr . Channing has clone well for the cause of truth and

    the ministers of truth in pressing upon the latter the duty of keeping pace with the spirit of the age , of enlightening their own minds as far as possible , and ennobling and enriching

    their statements of doctrine by the united strength of tasteful language and energetic sentiment . In all this I cordially acquiesce . But perhaps Dr-C . goes rather too far in his estimate of the advantages to be derived from

    this high state of mental cultivation ; or rather , in his anxiety to fix his standard of excellence high enough , he a little depreciates the power of simple truth . It is true he does endeavour to shew that there is no such

    tiling as simple or " naked truth /' " Truth , ' says he , " is always humanized in passing through a human mind . " This is , no doubt , phitosophically true . Yet surely there is ia practical incorrectness in the inference

    which Dr . Channing would hai ^ e us draw , if he does not allow that tile majority of hearers are fully able to separate the human from the cHviiite in the word spoken to them . And that the test to which , ostensibly at least , preaching is brought by Christian hearers , is , as it ought to be , the word of God . " Who does not kntiw ;*'

    asks Dr . C , " ¦ that the subhmest doctrines lose in some hands all th&r grandeur , and the loveliest all thtit attractiveness ? " Now he is not speaking in this place of false doctrine— -he is speaking of truth—the whole

    tenour of the argument seems to be&r me out in this assertion . Assuming this then to be correct , his meaning must be , that the sublimest , the most true > the most attractive doctrines , may lose all their power simply by being conveyed in an unpleasant

    manner . This is a discouraging doctrine to the " brother of low degree / ' but it is comforting to feel the persitasion that it is not warranted by experience . Practically , I am persuaded that the most important truths of the gospel are received with more reverence , more lasting good consequences , and more universally salutury effects , when

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    On a Passage in a Sermon of Channing ' s . 527

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    Sin , THE unfortunate note appended to Dr . Channing ' Sermon on the Ordination of Mr ! Gannett , has been the subject of much discussion , both

    "i this country and in America . It is jiot my Wish to revive this discussion ; » ut deeply impressed by the powerful eloquence of the discourse itself , and tfte ongmai maimer ; tl which it treats a [« subject of higji importance , I cannot > l hope it will be extensively read a du ] r appreciated . At the same

    \« -i « i " i Jolm" PeGheH , made Master of ¦ WMene College , Cambridge , 1679 / '

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 527, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/15/