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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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is the deep , radical sin of the church * She conceives herself to have a right not only to use the words , but to put forth the ciaVms of a pure and unearthjy guardian , and to demand the renunciation of that which she has given no syniptom of a desire to renounce for herself . When we see her putting off her earthly crown , presenting herself to the public with no claims but those of her own inherent excellence , displaying no goMen baits , holding out no worldly terrors , relying on the Spirit and power of truth , we then , from the spiritual mother , rriay look for spiritual children . Till then , we caonot allow that , if they are holy , it is because they are hers .
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Art . IV . —Religious Discourses . By a Layman . 8 vo . We have , under this title , two discourses from the pen of the celebrated poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott . They are an object of curiosity and admiration , inasmuch as they evince in a new and peculiar manner the versatility of of tne author ' s genius . But the reader will he disappointed who hopes to find in them " some of the most momentous
questions which can exercise the human mind , discussed with great eloquence , ingenuity , and force of argument , " which the writer of the preface leads him to expect . The author , in a letter to the friend for whose benefit they were published , prefixed to them , gives the more just estimate of his productions , " that they contain no novelty of sentiment , and no
attempt at brilliancy of composition . " cc They were meant ,. ! may remind ; you , " continues Sir Walter " to shew that a rational and practical discourse upon a particular text is a task more easily performed than you , in your natural anxiety , seemed at the time disposed to believe . " We do not mean to eay that it ) s a very difficult task , trot Sir Walter Scott ' s experience of what 19 easj or
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difficult in the way of composition can hardly furnish a criterion for another . Written with a purely benevolent intention , and published on the part of the author with a reluctance only overcome by a similar feeling , they deserve to be read with indulgence , and they may undoubtedly be read with pleasure and improvement . They are plain , simple , and unaffected discourses , written in the author ' s pleasing , easy , and elegant style ;
They are for the most part adapted to all classes of Christians ; but at the close of the first sermon the author seems to slide into orthodox language as most familiar to him in writing on such subjects , and in a manner which makes us a little curious to know whether Sir
Walter is a sincere believer in the doctrines of the Atonement and Original Sin , as commonly received * or hae merely adopted the expressions out of accommodation to the friend for whom he wrote . Speaking of Christ he says , " He paid in his own inestimable person that debt which fallen man' owed to
Almighty Justice , and which , bankrupt by nature , it was impossible for him to diecharge . The first sermon is on Matt . v . 17 : " Think not that I am come to destroy
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Wfa . Critical Notices . £ 23
Critical Notices.
CRITICAL NOTICES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page 623, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/39/
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