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Oil tatry yet , sweet soul ! this world is dark , And needs the light and coin fort of those eyes ; Thou art a dove and must not leave bur ark , Thou ever with the olive branch thy prize ;
Thou hast a mission , ere thy spirit flies , To teach all others to resemble thee , That o ' er , away unto thy native skies , — Away immortal soul , thy bonds are free , Away , and find thy heaven—Love and Eternity !
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588 A $ plan $ Sermons .
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The author of these Sermons seems to be an admirer of the style of Tillotson and Blair , and in our opinion has / bettered the instruction' which is to be derived from that school of composition . Like theirs , his discourses are characterised by fcound sense , always perspicuously , and often elegantly expressed ; there is scarcely ever any thing in them which can offend , usually much
which must please ; and if passages are rare , which , by their eloquence or originality , stand out in relief , there is a general harmony , proportion , and polish , which enhances the effect of each discourse as a whole , and tends to produce on the mind the kind and degree of impression which we may infer that the
preacher contemplated . We seldom meet with compositions which have more the appearance of being precisely what the author intended they should be . So equable are they , that a specimen might be taken almost at random ^ without partiality or unfairness , to exhibit their characteristic qualities . We select the following on account of its subject :
* In the midst of commotions we tremble arid complain . A thunderstorm aldrrnfc us , for wefedr that the lightning may fall upon our own roof ; but presently all is serene in the heavens , and we philosophize upon the salutary tendency bf storms and tempests . Under a civil tyranny , a rebellion breaks dut , and the timid and selfish predict universal ruin—without them , and in spite of them , liberty is established , and their ^ children and their children ' s children go up to the temple to praise God for putting the love of liberty into thel hearts of some of those that went before them . In the reformation of the
Church , the philosophers of the day see nothing but the loosening of the bonds of religion , and an inundation of moral and spiritual evil : thus Erasmus , who was foremost to expose the corruptions of the Church of Rome , alarmed at the effect of his own works , predicted unheard of miseries from the defection of the people from the
priesthood ; but the Reformation , falling in with public opinion , went on ; error after error , superstition after superstition , imposture after imposture fell , and there is not now an enlightened Roman Catholic in Europe , who does not look back with pious gratitude to the Refor-* Sermons on various Subject * , chiefly practical . [ By R . A upland . London , Hunter , 1833 .
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ASPLAND'S SERMONS *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1833, page 562, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2620/page/50/
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