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quantity of water , producing a splendid and beautiful array of glittering froth and painted bubbles . A few years ago , this new volume of Sermons , by Dr . Chalmers , would have been immediately republished in America . But I have seen no notice
of it here as yet . How much Irving and others , of the same school , have contributed to effect this decline of their master ' s factitious reputation on our side the Atlantic * , or bow much the absence of novelty has produced the same result , I cannot say . One
William Craig Brownlie , a violent Scotch Presbyterian , now preaching in or about Philadelphia , has published a sermon most ridiculously imitated from the manner of Irving , and entitled somehow thus : — "For Missions :
an Oration / ' &c « To one who knew not the real existence and character of the author , the whole affair would appear to be a broad burlesque upon Irving ' , written by the authors of Rejected Addresses .
Thoughts on Titus ii . 13 . I cannot think Mr . Jevan 3 has proved his point . There are various ways in which the glory of God may be made to appear , without an exhibition of his person . Does Mr . Jevans suppose that the real person of the Deity was displayed in the numerous instances cited by him from the Old Testament ?
Without resorting to the low , physical explanations given of such passages by Eiehhoru and other German rationalists , how can an enlightened reader of the Scriptures understand the exhibitions in question as any thing more , than comparatively very faint miraculous manifestations of the
power of the Deity ? If , ir * a future state , we shall he indulged with perpetually new displays of God ' s power , wisdom and other attributes , coupled with new assurances and experiences of his love , our happiness will not he diminished by his eternally veiling from our knowledge the mysteries of his
person . Extract from Job Scott , the Quaker . Here are the conclusions of a strong mind , unassisted l > y the torch of true criticism , yet bursting through the darkness in which many portions of the English Bible arc shrouded . Tkv extract contains some Accurate distinctions , worth any one ' s study .
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There is something quite profound , in the remarks on the phrase attributes , as applied to the Deity . Letters to Richard Baxter . How great was the reverence paid to Rich , afird Baxter by his contemporaries 1 * ' Your name , Sir / ' says the letter of
introduction borne by Sharpe , " has engaged him to this journey , and you wilj soon be convinced the high esteem he had of you was the only motive to it . " " Pardon , I entreat you , " says another correspondent , ** this interruption given to your studies . " I suppose that his talents and the state of the times combined to elevate him
with many persons into some such awful personage as the Grand Lama . I see no proof in these documents that " the most religious people of Kidderminster were dissatisfied with
Baxter , " or thought that he Lad " played fast and loose with the Church of England " The paragraph in which this matter appears to be alluded to , when closely examined , will be found necessarily to warrant no such conclusion .
Will some one remove for me a difficulty occurring in one of these letters of Mr . Ravvlett ? He represents himself as being still an officiating minister of the Church of England , in
the diocese of Bishop Wilkins , yet is anxious to have his objections against subscribing removed . Could he already have subscribed , in spite of his objections ? Or was he permitted to officiate , at the time in question , without having as yet subscribed ?
May not the peer , to whom Baxter addressed one of these letters , have been Powis , who , according to Hume , actually interfered with success on this very occasion for Baxter ' s relief ? Dr . Jones on Phito ' s Christianity * The argument , when reduced to a syllogism , runs thus : —
Whoever praises and describes a Christian , is a Christian ; Philo praised and described Christians ; Ergo , Philo was a Christian . Most persons will , at iirst sight ,
demur at the major proposition > many will doubt whether the minor have any surer basis than Dr . Jones ' s ixnagination ; and so , what will become of the conclusion , is more than I can say .
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198 Critical Synopsis of the Monthly RepoMtwt / for March , 1825 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/10/
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