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    drawing from the house of prayer ; nor think so lightly of yourself ft * to imagine , that your presence adds nothing to the solemnity of public worship and the energy of devotion /*

    The social worship in which we engage with our fellow-Christians is a public avowal of onr faith in the divine mission of Jesus of Nazareth : it increases the attachments , strengthens the ties , and enforces the duties of social life ; it cannot fail to draw attention and excite inquiry , and is calculated to abate the pride of rank and station , to elevate the dejectecj spirit of the lower orders of mankind , and to inspire all with a spirit of mutual candour and good wilL

    No injurious reflection ought , however , to be cast upon those excellent characters who ^ from principles of conscience , have withdrawn from a form of public worship which they judge to be unscriplural . Mr . K . next replifes to two objections ( they were those * we

    believe , of the late ( filbert Wakefjeld ) against public worship , and concludes by observing , that habit will render these services agreeable , notwithstanding they may at first be performed with reluctance . Recommending an attendance upou them , he says : —

    €€ This subjugation of the conduct to the judgment , ofthe affections to the will , while it is the parent of true wisdom , is also the inost acceptable sacrifice which an imperfect creature can render to its Creator . "

    Our opinion of this discourse is sufficiently declared by the long abstract we have given of its contents : the subject , the reasoning , the illustrations , and the style , have entitled it to more than a common share of our attention ; and , in reading it , we have frequently had occasion to

    repeat—Juvat usque morari ! We perceive with pleasure , that the next discourse ( the twenty-second ) is likewise of the devotional and practical class : its subject is , " The fear of the Lord , the only sure guide to a complete knowledge and uniform practice of virtue / ' and the text , Ps . cxi . 10 . " The fear of the Lord is the beginning of

    wisdom . " The fear of God , remarks Mr . K . is the surest guide to the discovery of our duty , and furnishes the best motives for the practice of it ; and he examines the justness of this position in respect to the three great divisions—divine , personal , and social . This examination , in the course of which we meet with some deserved strictures on the works of ancient and of modern unbelievers , is made with considerable fairness and perspicuity ;

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    310 Kenrick ' s Sermons .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/30/