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    Psalmist was thus meditating , the sun might arise ; turning " to that glorious luminary , and struck with his splendour , his thoughts would instantly be transferred frpm earth to heaven . . Hence he brojce put into that iioble hymn of praise of which the author of these discourses has endeavoured to give ajuster idea in the following paraphrase ;

    " The heavens declare the glory of God , and the firmament proclaims his workmanship . Day unto day uttereth . speech , and night unto night teacheth knowledge ; no speech have they indeed * no language , and their voice is not heard 3 yet into all the world is their sound gone forth , and to the end of the earth their words / i . e . It is true the

    Ee&vetis have no audible voice , but they have language which all rational spectators can understand . If they merely spoke to the external sense , by those only would they be understood whose language might be similar tp theirs , they address not the ear but the understanding ; their language is universal , it is heard from one end o £ the creation to the other , understood not only throughout this earth of ours , but

    throughout the universe of God , and wherever there is an intelligent spectator , whether here or in any other world , there they proclaim the goodness of their Creator . " " In these heavens God hath set a tabernacle for the sun , who ( add * the Psalmist ) is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber rejoicing , as a strong man to run a race . His going forth is from the end of the heaven , and his circuit to the end of it , and there is

    nothing hi 4 from the heat thereof . How vast , how amazing is the course he must finish before night , from that extremity of heaven wheiace h& is now issuing forth , through the immeasurable vault that bends pver tny head , to the extremest west , where I last night watched hif departing beams ! Nor is the extent or the rapidity of his yearly circuit which ing DeamS ; IN Or IS me extent or me rayiuity ui ma ycany tntuit wxiii ^ ii less wonderful than those of hi

    forms our seasons and their changes , ? diurnal round , which constitutes our day and night ; by means of pne the inhabitants of every land enjoy in regular succession the benefits of light and darkness $ by the other , at uniform and equal periods , every enjnate is blest with the necessary interchanges of seed-time and harvest summer and winter ; and thus are the benefits of his enlivening warmtfi

    equally and liberally dispensed to every portion of this globe , and to every creature under heaven *' But it is time to close this long critique with observing , that the last sermons by Mr . Cappe in this volume were composed and preached after his recovery from a severe and dangerous illness , and that they present an admirable picture of $ truly pious mind . It is only necessary to add , that to all the diswrittin

    courses in the book are appended suitable prayers , en a style very superior to most compositions of a devotional kincj ^ and well adapted to promote the author ' s uniform purpose qJ making every idea , and every argument minister to virtue md devotion . j . rL

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/43/