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      tain ; whether to the elect or the non-elect . Was this pure mo . desty 2 or was it a sarcastic , allegorical representation of the state of matrimony ?

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      one cooling drop into their tongues and pens , too , too much exasperated against each other /'

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      NO . U H * - ' Reformation of Worship . An English country parson , says Dr . Campbell , [ Lect . on Eccles . Hist . ii . 201 , ] was bragging , in a large company , of the success he had had in reforming his parishioners , on whom his labours , he said ,, had produced a wonderful chan * s to the better * Being asked in What -respect , he replied , that when he first came among them , they were a set of unmannerly clowns , who paid him no more deference than they did to one another , dkl not so

      much as pull off their hat when they spoke to him , but bawled out as roughly and familiarly as though he were their equal ; whereas now , they never presumed to address him but cap in hand , and , in a submissive voice , made him their best bow , when they were at ten yards distance , and stiled him , your reverence , at every word . A Quaker , who } iad heard the whole patiently ' , made answer , i ( And so friena , the upshot of this reformation , of which thou hast so much carnal glorying , is , that thou hast taught thy peoplfc to worship thyself /'

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      Gleanings ' . 121

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      No .-L . VIII . A Hint to Reviewers . The brave Tartars used formerly to- put their names to their arrows , that the person attacked might know his adversary .

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      No . LJX Figurative Praying . Mr . John Hales concludes his sermon on Peace , the Legacy of Christ , " with a prayer addressed to the" Lord Christ ;" in which he invokes Christ as God , and prays that he would hasten the coming of his Son , our

      • savioury and , - in-conclusion , asks all favours for his Son ' s , sake , Jesus Christ , our Lord /' It is yet to be explained , who is the Son of the Lord Christ . Mr . Hales himself would , we believe , have been the last to have ventured upon the expounding of such a mystery , but the first to applaud us for refusing our assent to him , when he has not

      our understanding . In the same prayer , this excellent writer ' s wish for moderation and charity , is ingeniously expressed in the accommodated language of one of . Christ ' s parables . Tropes and similitudes are not fit ornaments of prayer ; otherwise , we should be pleased , in no low degree , with the prettiness of the accommodation .

      u Be with those , we beseech thee , to whom the prosecution of church controversies iscommitted , and , like a good Lazarus , drop

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      Np-LX . Ambition . A person never mounts so high , said Cromwell , as when be does not know himself how far he dc * sires to go .

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      No . JLXII . A Nursery Clock * In the year 1760 , Lady Arabella Denny presented a clock to

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/25/