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    to be more or less interesting' as they are connected with and have a bearing * on this ; it has pressed upon his mind the more forcibly , as he Las felt his days

    rapidly passing * away , ; and every thing" has reminded him of the approach of the moment which will terminate his earthJy pilgrimage . "——P . 61 .

    The Essayist views the subject in all its bearings , and gives in a few pages the substance of volumes . He believes in the total mortality of man , and consequently places his hopes

    of life future upon the resurrection . His statement of bath , the evidence of the resurrection of Christ , and of the purport of the general resurrection is remarkably clear . And at the end are Six Meditations of a devotional

    character , which are as well calculated to affect the heart , as the former part of the work is to satisfy the understanding .

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    Art . VII . —A Dissenter s Reasofis for not observing Good-Fridafj and Christmas-Day . By James Hawkes . 8 vo . pp . 26 . Lincoln , printed and sold by W . Brooke ; sold by Eaton , London . Is .

    rjMHlS Tract consists of a Sermon JL and several pages of explanatory Preface . The preacher takes for his text Acts xii . 1—4 , making use of the last of these verses as an opening to his subject . The verse contains the word

    Easter as the name of a religious festival , and the English reader would hence infer that the church-holiday now known by that title is intended by the Evangelist and is of apostolic origin . JSTo such thing . The term is thrust in by King James ' s

    translators to shew their anti-puritanism . There is no colour of reason for it . The word is passover , and is thus given in other parts of this very translation , and it had been so given in this place by preceding translators . Mr . Hawkes says , u It is rather curious to observe how a « ham » -e of circiunstunccs sometimes pro-

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    duces a very different mode of thinking-, m > at least of speaking and acting 1 . When James was King of Scotland he co , uld find no authority in Scripture for either Easter or Christmas . In a speech delivered in

    the Scotch General Assembly , held at Edinburgh , August 4 , 1590 , he is said to have used the following * words : * The Kirk pf Geneva , what are they ? They keep Pasck and Youle [ i . e . Easter and Christmas ] : what authority have they in God ' s word , and where is tUeir institution ? And as for our neighbour the Kirk of

    England , their service is an evil-said mass in English ; they want nothing of the mass but the liftings ; but the Kirk of Scotland is the iinesl in all the world . ' ( See Calderwood ' s History of Scotland , p . 256 , )"—Pp- 11 , 12 .

    In a note , p . 24 , Mr . Hawkes gives the following passage from Turner ' s Hist , of Anglo-Saxons * IL 15 : u Bede , in his History , mentions JSostre as the name of one of the Anglo-Saxon Goddesses , whose festivities were celebrated in April , which thence obtained the name of Eostre-Bfonatk . Her name is

    still retained to express the season of our great paschal solemnity , and thus the memory of one of the idols of our ancestors will be perpetuated as long as oiir language and country continue . " The preacher makes great use of Robinson ' s humourous tract entitled

    " The History and Mystery of Good Friday . " While Mr . Hawkes vindicates to Dissenters the " liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free , " and exhorts them not to be " again

    entangled with the yoke of bondage , " he speaks with great candour of such as can seriously and profitably obr serve days and seasons . This is agreeable to Paul ' s liberal doctrine and benevolent advice , Rom . xiv . 5 *

    6 , " One man esteemeth one day above another : another esteemeth every day alike . Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind . He that regardeth the day , regardeth it unto the Lord , and he that regardeth not the day , to the Lord he doth pot regard it /'

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    576 Review *—~ & Dissenter ' s Reasons for not observing Good ^ Friday .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/52/