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in behalf of the works here specified . This is an age in which almost every thing * in the way of patronage must be secured by persona ] application . It is true , judgment and caution must be employed by the solicitor , in order not to be troublesome or disrespectful
to those to whom he applies . Generally speaking , a simple exhibition of facts is sufficient to win our jvatrona # e to a good object . Should it be asked , why such statements in
advertisements and magazines are not adequate to the purpose , —I answer , there are many benevolent persons who , after reading these statements , cannot afford the time to write or apply to their booksellers for the works
recommended ; there arc others who defer the business to some future opportunity , which slips by for ever ; and there are others who are more wrought upon by the sight of a single work brought to their houses , and presented before their very eyes , than they would be in their confused and hurried visits
to the bookseller ' s . For my own part , though I have been considerably annoyed by the carriers of prospectuses , subscriptions , &i \ , yet I am under a far greater weight of obligation to them for bringing good books to my
floor , and for even sometimes , by a little gentle violence , overcoming my tendency to indolence or avarice . We are full apt to forget the double importance of supplying our libraries with valuable works , and of promoting the general cause of good literature .
" Christum Prayers and Discourses : Very good . Yet in these extracts there is a tendency towards extremes . « ' Serious sermons / ' after ail , are not incompatible with * ' rhetorical and philosophical" qualities , " which dazzle by the beauty of their imagery , " or which sometimes lead
into " abstruse speculations . '" Serious sermons ought not to be put in diametrical opposition to moral essays , nor displays of biblical criticism , nor philosophical defences of the gospel , all of which , even in the pulpit , may be excellent in their way , and on the proper occasions .
Dr . Jones on the Unjust Steward . Numerous treatises have been written on this parable . Dr . Jones has contributed some light on the subject , btftf / not all / I think , which-is wanted . J--tfbufU wither we might to press
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every part of the parable into an allegorical resemblance of corresponding objects around the Saviour . Thus it is not necessary to suppose that he meant to typify the Scribes and Pharisees by the unjust steward . His object seems to have been , to recoaimend to his disciples something in the conduct of the steward which even his
master had pratsra ^ m- spite of its fraud , cunning and injustice . Nor tvas it actually the fraudulent and unjust part of his conduct that Jesus intended to recommend . It was simply his prudence and fosesiglit . * But further , even to this prudence and
foresight he gives a beautiful , spiritual sense and bearing . " Make to yourselves , " he says , ( Luke xvi . 9 y ) " such friends of the mammon of unrighteousness , that when ye die , they may receive you into everlasting
habitations . " That is , Assiduously do your duty towards them as religious teachers , heap upon them spiritual , as the steward did pecuniary favours upon his master ' s debtors , and they will thus be the instruments of your
obtaining everlasting felicity in heaven . See Kuinoel in toe . So far from recommending to them any concern at all for their pecuniary or earthly welfare , I think his principal object in the parable was to repress it . And this view is confirmed not only by
vers . 10—13 , which Jesus utters as a kind of commentary on the parable , but also by ver . 14 : " And the Pharisees , also , who were covetous , heard all these things , and they derided him . " Would covetous men Lave
derided him for giving prudential maxims , 'to his disciples ? Mosaic Mission . Christianity Judaism under an improved foriu ? A very improved form indeed !
American Quaker Creed . I regret that a typographical error should have misled me so far from the true meaning of Bereus . I assure him I was " serious '' in my apology for the Quakers .
Remarks on Resolutions of Dissenting- Ministers . Never were observations more seasonable or instructive . May they produce good effects in tne ri ^ ht quarter . „ Schiller ' s Remarks on the /* tw Human Society . I ani belter satis * tird , after all , with the plain statements of Moses , encumbered * 1111
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464 Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for Jftty , 1825
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 464, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/20/
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