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those which regard the Deity , as in any - of ioferior importance ; audthe religious emotions possess too much of individuality to be aptly embodied in a general or invariable form of expression . As long , therefore , as the present modes of worship are in use , it is desirable that as great a variety as possible should be introduced into the devotional portions . The volume before us affords this variety
to such a degree as to remove some of the impediments which have been pleaded in excuse for the neglect of family worship . The pious thoughts of many minds , the devotional feelings of many hearts , are here offered ; and where they lead , we hope many minds and many hearts will follow ; for however peculiar may be the religious emotions , they cau scarcely fail of finding congeniality somewhere in these pages .
In the volume of Sermons we were presented with an excellent discourse on Family Worship by the Editor . He has followed up his exhortations to devotiou by a collection of original prayers , which are remarkable for their fervour , aud for their legitimate scriptural expression . They appear to us to have opened up the sources of religious emotion . A higher incentive to their use we cannot offer .
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Art . VIII . — Two Sermons : 1 st . On Christ ' s F ^ ove to Good Persons ; and lid . On Doing all Things in the Name of the Lord Jesus . Preached at Alnwick . By W . Turner . Davison , Alnwick . Pp . 26 . TiiEiiK discourses present a new proof of the tai iicfctnehH of their respected author in the cautic to which he has long
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devoted his exertions . He has rendered an important service to that cause by having founded the Newcastle Unitarian Tract Society , and by continuing to supply it with useful publications , both original aud selected .
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Critical Notices . — Theological . 329
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Art . VII . —A Sermon , preached at the Chapel in Flowergate , HHiitby , at the Opening of an Organ , Aupust 23 , 1829 . By Joseph Ashton . Pp . 90 . Baldwin and Cradock , and Hunter . 1830 .
The object of this discourse is intimated by its title . The aid to devotiou affoided by music in the public services of religion is explained , and its employment justified . We are sorry that a recommendation of harmony as a ineaus of soothing and softening the spirit , should be followed by details of a misunderstanding between the preacher and some of his flock , which it must be alike painful to the writer to relate and to his readers to receive .
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Art . IX . — The Reasonableness of Religion in its Doctrines and Institutions , with a Particular consideration of Believers' Baptism . Pp . 94 . By Benjamin Mardon , M . A . London : Hunter . 1830 . The reasonableness of religion , a doctrine revived at the Reformation , has been , since that time , professed by every
denomination of Christians , whether ( as in the instance of the Catholics ) their forms of worship are multitudinous , or ( as in the case of the Quakers ) their rites are few and simple , or , as in other cases , some forms are admitted and others rejected . Whatever may be the
ritual employed , it is defended on the ground of its reasonableness , either as a matter of positive injunction or of expediency . The difference betweeu the various parties lies in the comparative consistency of their appeals to reason ; for the appeal is made by all . The writer of the little work before us is an
advocate for the adoption of certain forms which he holds to be positive Christian institutions , aud we find , as a preface to his arguments , an exposition of the design of Christianity as a religion of reason , and of the truth that the " meagre Christianity '' of Unitarians was the Christianity of the primitive believers . Few will be found to dissent
from the arguments contained in the first portion of his work : whether his defence of certain positive institutions ( as he assumes theua to be ) can be allowed , his readers must judge from the evidence he lays before them . The Christian institutions which he
holds to be positive are the public aud private worship of God , including the establishment of regular Christian societies ; the ordinance of baptism by immersion ; and of the Lord ' s supper . It may appear to some that these institutions cannot be maintained on the same
ground ; the last having been originated by Jesus himself , and the others subsistiug before his time . To others it may appear that other rites may be justified on the same grounds . For fasting , for instance , there aeems as much authority as for public worwhip- Christ practiced and countenanced them equally ; and if he defended his di&ciplcs for
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1830, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2584/page/41/
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