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reignty , in plucking sueh a lovely flower by so sad and sudden a blow . He that sitteth upon the flood , Lath swept away a beautiful virgin with a flood . God , that sitteth upon many waters , and saith
to the proud waves , < Hitherto shall ye go , and no further / was able to have carried her through the water , and to have secured her from drowning ; but he gave commission to that merciless element to hurrv her down and choak her .
Her will was left to venture upon apparent danger , after she had but crossed it with difficulty . God denied strength to the beast to " wrestle out , and prevented the efficacy of help : God thought fit to secure the horse , not her : it was an act of his prerogative and justice . Oh , dreadful blow " ! Oh , astonishing
spectacle ! A fresh , lively young woman , likely to live many years , snatched away on a sudden , laid by as a dead corpse in a few moments ! Yea , a praying , hopeful child of a pious , praying , gracious father , and a precious mother , long since
with pod . What shall we say ? God is righteous , yet mysterious in his Providences . Thy righteousness , O Lord , is like the great mountains ; who can reach the top ? Thy judgments are a great deep ; who can fathom the bottom thereof ?
They are sometimes unaccountable , always holy and righteous . It ' s true , cloud and darkness are rousi about him ; but righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne . The great God doth what he pleaseth in heaven , in earth , in the seas , and all deep places ;
and sometimes gives not the creatures account of his matters . He taketh away , who can hinder him ? Who will say unto him , What doest thou ? It becomes us silently to adore his infinite majesty , and lie down under his wise providences . He taketh but his own . Our borrowed
comforts must be cheerfully restored our dearest relations are more his than ours ; and , when they have done their work , it becomes us to lay hands off , and let God take them . Nor must we prescribe to him by what death he shall remove them : in the soft waves , or in a soft bed ; by lingering consumption , or
sudden suffocation ; by a slight river , or in the main ocean . To God , the Lord , belong the issues of death , and from death . But , surely , there is a peculiar hand and end of God in pitching on this person , an eminent Christian ' s dear
child : making them the talk of the country , the scorn of the wicked , at such a time as this , when our meetings are despised and afresh prosecuted . Who can tell what misrepresentations profane men may make of this ? Who kiwws how
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many will take occasion to h&rdeu their hearts herefrom , and insult over us all with madness ? Lord , teach thy servants the meaning of thy rod , and give all that see and hear thereof the sanctified use thereof ; especially let the death of this young woman be the spiritual life of young persons . Oh , that others may he d fe and do
ar , an ar , no more wickedly . The time is observable , when youth think they are let loose to be vain wanton , profane , —this Christmas time ' as they call it ; and think , by the birth of Jesus , they are delivered to do all their abominations . Oh , blasphemy [ Lord , let this be a check to sin , a spur to holiness . If God be so severe to his
own children , what shall become of stubborn and rebellious children ? If these things be done in the green tree what shall be done in the dry ? God Almighty , dry up the flood of licentiousness that drowns the world , lest a flood of wrath overflow us . Oh , what cause
have I to admire distinguishing Providence to me and mine ! What dangers have I escaped ! what deliverances have I enjoyed ! My more than ordinary wan derings have exposed me to many seen , but more unseen , hazards ; but hitherto God hath helped . " —Pp . 75—79 .
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Art . IV . — The Necessity of Philosophy to the Divine . A Sermon , preached at Bridgetcater , at the Primary Visitation of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells , on Wednesday \ the 31 . 9
of August , 1825 . By John Matthe \ v \ M . A ., Rector of Kilve and String-ston , Somerset , and late Fellow of Baliol College , Oxford . Svo . pp . 36 . Bridgwater , printed by J . Poole and Son ; sold by Rivingtons * , London . 1825 .
WE hear that this discourse has produced a great impression in the West of England , and we are not surprised at the fact . That a clergyman should assert in a Visitation Sermon the absolute necessity of the use of reason
in matters of religion , and moreover attack some of those popular doctrines which are thought to constitute the essence of religion and the distinction of the Established Church , is
not a little alarming to such members of the hierarchy as reckon absolute uniformity to be one of the signs oi the true church , and to all such professors of Christianity , whether in or out of the pale of the Establishment ,
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238 Review . —Matthew ' s Primary Visitation Sermon
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/50/
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