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if he have tnot . a goOdjstoefc of-former notions , or an inwardmiat of new ] be shall soon run out of all * and as some forlorn bankrupt grow weary qf himself . Hereupon it is , that men of b ^ rre p . and unexercised hearts , can no more live without company , than fish out of the water . Aud those hereniites and other
votaries , which , professiog only devotion , have no mental abilities to set themselves on work , are fain to tire themselves , and their unwelcome hours with the perpetual repetitions of the same orisons , which are now grown to a tedious and heartless forraality . Those contemplative spirits that are furnished
with gracious abilities , and got into acquaintance with the God of heaven , may , and can , lead a life even in the closest restraint , or wildest solitariness , nearest to Angelical ; but those , which neither can have Mary ' s heart , nor will have Martha ' s hand , must needs be unprofitable to others and wearisame to them .
selves . "—Pp . 9 , 10 . Fuller . " . I heard a preacher take for his text , Am not I thine a < ss upvn which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine , unto this day ? fVm I ever wont to do so unto thee ? I wondered what he woul # make thereof , fearing he would starve his auditors far want of matter ; but hence he observed ,
" 1 . The silliest and simplest ^ being wronged , may justly speak in their own defence . " 2 . Worst men have a good title ta their own goods : Balaam a sorcerer , yet the ass confesseth twice he was his .
" 3 . They who have done many good offices , and fail in one , are often not only unrewarded for former service , but punished for that one offence . < c 4 . When the creatures , formerly officious to serve us , start from their wonted obedience , as the earth to become barren , &nd air pestilential , man ought to reflect on his own sin as the sole cause thereof .
" How fruitful are the seeming barren places of Scripture ; bad ploughmen , which make balks of swrfi ground * Wheresoever the surface oiM&Qd s word doth not laugh and sing % Sth corn , there the heart thereof fvithiu is merry with mines , affording , where not plain matter , hidde i * mysteries /'—Pp . 26 , 27 .
Sir Thomas Browne ' s Evening Hymn < i The night is come , tike to the da ; y Depart not thou , great God , away : Let not my sins , black as the night , Eclipse the lustre of thy light ; Keep still in my horizon ; for to me The sun makes- not the day , but Thee . Thou , whose nature cannot sleep , On my * temples sentry keep j
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238 Rtvietv . —Golden Sentences *
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of Jxidah ! How truly , alas ! has this malediction , denounced against thee above three thousand years ago , been verified during thy eighteen hundred years of sad pilgrimage ! How truly is it still verifying in many countries ! The light of knowledge shines with
resplendent lustre , but it shines not for thee- !—Loud , and sweetly too , does humanity plead the cause of wretchedness ; but it pleads not for , thee . The benign eye of Benevolence darts its vivifying Looks every where , but it regards not
thee . Thou alone—thou once great amongst nations—thou art still derided , despised , and neglected ! For thee eloquence is dumb—compassion deaf—and pity blind . But despair not , Israel ! The same awful voice that denounced
the malediction , did also promise thee happier days . It rests with thee—with tjie , e alone . ' Return unto me , aud I will return unto you , says the Lord of Hosts * ' Mai . Hi . "—Pp . 69—71 .
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Art . III .- —Golden Sentences ; a Manual that may be Used by all who desire to be Moral and Religious . Selected b y the Rev . Joseph Hunter , F . A . S . 12 mo . pp . 88 . Bath , ) rinted by Crutwell ; sold hy R . Hunter , St . Paul ' s Churchyard ^ London . 1826 . 4 s .
WE rejoice to see a taste reviving for our older practical Christian writers . Mr . Hunter has selected the names of a few of the most worthy , and has given a series of extracts from their choicest works . His
authors are Bishop Hall , Thomas Faller , Sir Thomas Browne , Dr . Whichcote and Dr . Richard Lucas . The extracts are 'not € t excerpts from continuous compositions ; but each is a finished and perfect whole . " They are from Bishop Hall's " Select Thoughts ;"
Fuller ' s " Good Thoughts in Bad Times ; " Sir Thos . Browne ' s " Christian Morals j" Dr . Whichcote ' s * ' Aphorisms ; " and Dr . Lucas ' s " Practical Christianity . " " Biographical Sketches , " drawn with peculiar felicity , " are prefixed to each fasciculus / ' We shall give one portion of each author .
Bishop HalL " He had need to be well underlaid , that lenows how to entertain the time and himself with his own thoughts . Company ^ variety of employments , or recreations , may wear out the < lay with the emptiest hearts ; but § -when a mato hath no society hut of him * self , no task to set himself upon , but ivhat ariees from his own bosom , surely ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/48/
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