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    t ) f self-subjection and submission to domestic and homely difficulties ; the iove of human praise , the willingness to give it , the danger of mere irritation without deep conviction , these , —and the minor foibles of spiritual gossip , exaggerated expressions , &c , are all diitfy and sensibly animadverted upon . There is a great deal of shrewdness , and occasionally considerable talent , displayed in her works ; but her spirit of severity would tell much against

    her with young people who have been brought up according to modern ideas . She evidently wishes to bring back the days of Richardsonian autho-i rity and formality ; she is too violently opposed to the manners and spirit of the times . Had she gone only half as far as she does , she would have a better chance . But to a certain extent she is perfectly right . Modern education is , as far as respects the discipline of forms , too lax ; and in this concession we are strengthened by the authority of one whose kind and

    benevolent spirit is as far removed from the desire to make the duties of filial obedience galling and oppressive , as is his deportment from the uncourteous manner which he reprobates . ( Dr . Carpenter—Principles of Education , pp . 195—197 . ) Mrs . Sherwood is herself , we understand , the mother of a large family ; and cannot , therefore , be addressed as a theorist in education ; but her manner of imparting religious instruction would , it must be confessed , appear little Jikely to effect the desired purpose . The

    doctrine of the Trinity is with her the beginning and the end . It is the prime , grand truth apparently upon which all the rest hangs . Instead of beginning , like most orthodox teachers , at what may be considered as of personal application , namely , the propensity to evil , or corruption of human nature , she mostly presupposes the fact of the self-devotion and sacrifice of the Deity , End then proceeds to inquire how or why this was necessary . This is the basis of all her doctrinal instruction . Is a sinner to be

    converted ? (< That striking peculiarity of the Godhead which is revealed in Scripture , namely , the Trinity in Unity , is pointed out as the means and motive of his conversion . The word of God / ' Mrs . Sherwood continues , " shews the believer how God the Father , who foresaw the fall of man before the foundation of the world , ( brought about by the malice of Satan , ) provided for him a Saviour , who should have power to overcome his spiritual foes , and to present him before the bar of Divine justice , clothed in unblemished and spotless

    righteousness . It points out also how God the Son , the second person in the Godhead , coequal and coeternal with the Father ^ undertook to become the Saviour of mankind , and to endure the utmost weight of the Divine anger against sin , in order that he might bring the sinner to glory , and , finally , it shews the nature and offices of the Holy Spirit , the third person of the everblessed Trinity , by whom the redeemed are convinced of sin , and taught tlveir need of a Saviour , having their dead souls regenerated and quickened by his infinite power . "—1 . 65 , 66 .

    But this is nothing to the " scriptural" instruction given to a young child by its mother : " At one time , she would point out to him the first appearance in Scripture of the second person of the Holy Trinity , under the type of light , which , at the command of the Creator , poured itself upon the dark face of the earth : and then she shewed him how this light was embodied , on the fourth day of the creation , in the substance of the sun , that heavenly luminary thus becoming the image of God incarnate , who in the fifth millennial was revealed to man in human flesh in the person of Christ , Hence she led him to trace this emblem through Scripture in all its various bearings , until she brought him to the completion of all things , when the man Christ , having finished his office ,

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    Review . ** Mrs . Sheribood * * Lady of the MnnoY . \ $ )

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/37/