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cc Thoir former of the st&iry frame , Haw wide 1 thy pdwer * how bright tby name ! Who , oa thine everlasting throne , Hast countless ages reigned alone . Those roiling orbs , by thee hnpelFd , By thee are in their courses held ; And all , throughout the realms of space Maintain their own appointed place . When all the leaves of Summer past , Lie withering in the Winter blast , Thy word contracts the fleeting day , And dims the sun ' s reluctant ray . So when more bright his glories shine , And late his lingering beams decline , 'Ti » thow dost give the lengthen'd light > 'Tis thou dost sneed the ranid night .
Thy goodness and thy power appear In all the seasons of the year : Seed-time and harvest own thy hand , And blessings pour on every land . All things within thy vast domain , Undeviating laws restrain : To thee all living creatures tend ; In thee all worlds and systems end . '
In rendering these lines of the I * atiri poet into English , Mr . Lamport lias Illustrated his own judgment , by the omission of a few terms and allusions borrowed from Heathen mythology ; such as Boreas spiritus—mitis Zephyrus — ArCturus — Sirius .
We think him generally less suecessful in his hymns than in the other compositions which this volume contains . To the measures of the short piece , which he entitles The Sacramenty we must object that they are not sufficiently dignified for the subject and the occasion .
Ihe effect of many pleasing devotional poems , of the present day , is injured by those light and airy metres , which afford great facilities to the substitution of words and rhymes fpr sense . Let * ub take the liberty of
adding that the studious introduction of texts of Scripture into nearly alt Mr , Lamport ' s hymns , is a blemish , and not an excellence . Thus , in the short poem on the versification of which we have been animadverting , we cannot approve of the lines .
cc We pray to be fed With ' the living bread That comcth down from heaven . ' " The author of Sacred Poetry has evidently a taste for enlightened , scriptural and truly evangelical devotion young persona , in particular , may find
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the samf * taste to be cherished in them by-an' acquaintance with his -compositions ; and for such , as well as for other readers , we trust that he will not have written in vain . _ N .
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172 Review . —HdRPf Sermon on the Death vf &r + Ryland .
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Awr . II , —A Sermon , occasioned by the Death of the Rev . John Ryland \ D . /> ., preached at the Baptist Meeting , Broadmead , Bristol , June 6 , 1825 . By Robert Hal ] , M . A . Second edition . London , published by Hamilton , Adams and Co . 1825 . 8 vo . pp . 54 .
^ | X ) turn many to righteous-JL ness , " to " sow that seed which shall be reaped in life everlasting , " * is the noblest distinction of the Christian preacher , and will be his governing desire . Mr . Hall , we doubt not
zeaiously pursues this object : may he richl y enjoy this honour ! In the mean time , he has a pre-eminence , which , far from being inconsistent with the highest , may vastly promote his own supreme wishes , by advancing the best interests of his fellow-men :
those of his discourses , which he lays before the world , come into the hands of an almost unexampled number of individuals . Hardly any single sermons , of the same rank , can vie with Mr . Hall ' s in popularity . Nor do we ascribe the circumstance of their
passing so often through the press , merely to the occasions on which they were delivered , or to the influence of fashion and a name . With very few exceptions , the merit of this
gentleman s writings is intrinsic and superior ; his eloquence such , as will most of all enkindle admiration in persons of a cultivated mind and of a pure and refined taste . To such persons the discourse before us is sure of approving itself : even though it may not extend , still it will not impair the author ' s reputation .
Mr . Hall ' s text is John xxi . 7 , " — that disciple whom Jesus loved . " His first paragraph furnishes a concise and satisfactory answer to the objection urged against the morality of the gospel , from its silence respecting patriotism . Three pages are next employed in repelling a similar objection with regard to friendshi p * * Pi > . 46 , 47 , of this sermon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1826, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2546/page/44/
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