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la the New Testament . * Having spoken of bis friend ' s reluctance to adimadvert openly on the unmerited wrongs which he experienced , the preacher adds ,
" He repressed his anger but indulged his grief , and was accustomed on such occasions to conduct himself rather like a person wounded than offended . Thus the uneasy sensations with which his mind was fraught were allowed to accumulate , producing not malignity indeed or rancour , of which he was incapable ,
but permanent disgust . * Be ye angry > sarth the Scripture , * and sin not' A violent suppression of the natural feelings is not the best expedient for obviating their injurious effects 3 and though nothing requires a more vigilant restraint than the emotions of anger , the
uneasiness of which it is productive , is , perhaps , best evaporated by its natural and temperate expression ; not to say that it is a wise provision in the economy of nature for the repression of injury , and the preservation of the peace and decorum of society . "—P . 41 ,
These are the remarks of a man who well understands the human mind , and comments with sound discrimination upon the ethical lessons of the Christian Scriptures .- \ Some of the precepts of the New Testament will be ill understood , if we attend not to the distinction of acts and
habits . What , in particular , is the just , consistent import of such language as this , " pray without ceasing' * — " men ought always to pray , and not to faint" —unless the difference upon which we insist be kept in view ?
7 o the philosopher as well as to the general reader the following paragraph offers an interesting communication , in respect of one of Dr . Ryland's favourite pursuits , and of that peculiar structure of his eyes , which enabled him to engage in it with singular advantage : "He had a passion for natural history ,
* Eph . \ v . 26 . f See Sermons by W . Gilpin , M . A ., No . XL ., together witii the Discourses of the Rev . and truly excellent Kdmund Butcher on our Lord ' s Sermon on the Mount , [ 287 , &c . J and an admirable annotation of Bishop Fearce ( Commentary , &c . ) on John ii . 19 . We must express our wonder that the case has been so much mistaken .
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in the pursuit of which he was rnucfr assisted by the peculiar structure of his eyes , which were a kind of natural microscopes . The observations he made on various natural productions , . without the aid of instruments , were really
surprising ; and though the peculiarity in his visual organs deprived him of the pleasure of contemplating the sublime and magnificent features of nature , it gave him a singular advantage for tracing her minuter operations . "—P . 43 .
There was in Dr . Ryland a considerable decree of Catholicism and liberality , with regard to many from whom he differed on the subject of baptism : of the part which he took in the controversy on that rite Mr . Hall justly observes ,
" His treatise on baptism * furnishes a beautiful specimen of the manner in which religious controversy should be conducted + on a subject on which the combatants on both sides have frequently disgraced themselves by an acrimony and bitterness in an inverse proportion to the importance of the point in debate . "—P .
36 . The conclusion of the discourse is in this preacher ' best style and taste : carrying * forward the views of his hearers and readers to the heavenly states , he thus proceeds :
" To that state all the pious on earth are tending ; and if there is a law from whose operations none are exempt , which irresistibly conveys their bodies to darkness and to dust , there is another , not less certain or less powerful , which conducts their spirit to the abode of bliss , the bosom of their Father and their God .
The wheels of nature are not made to roll backward ; every thing presses on to eternity ; from the birth of time an impetuous current has set in , which bears all the . sous of men towards that interminable ocean . Mean while heaven is
attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature , is enriching itself by the spoils of earth , and collecting within its capacious bosom whatever is pure , permanent and divine , leaving nothing for the last * The praise belongs as justly to his Candid Statement , &c .
-f * It is remarkable that Mr . Belsham [ Plea for Infant Baptism , 11 , 12 ] has spoken in the same commendatory terms of Dr . Kyland ' s temper in the controversy on Baptism . The coincidence , we hope , will not be' lost upon our readers and on Mr . Hall , if he be in the number of them .
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I 74 Review . *—Hall ' s Sermon on the Death of Dr . Uylnnd .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1826, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2546/page/46/
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