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    same simplicity , united with the same fervour , of manner , which eminently distinguished the late excellent Mr . Howe . „ t The object of the discourse is to shew cc the reason of the ordination of death , " to explain < € the true nature

    of it , " and to hold ^ forth " some of the consolations which the Christian religion affords us under the temporary evils occasioned by it . " Under each

    head there are ingenious and weighty observations , calculated to reconcile man to the lot of mortality , and deserving of the attention of such Christians especially as through fear of death are all their life-time subject to

    bondage . Dr . Smith says , ( p . 28 , ) that I 113 own observation would lead him to the conclusion , which is agreeable to a remark of Lord Bacon ' s , that there is usually no pain in dying . Most earnestly do we wish that the fact could be more fully ascertained . We apprehend that we have witnessed cases with

    which this statement does not agree . But suppose the crisis of death to be accompanied in many instances with conscious pain and agony ; is not this , compared with the general economy of Providence , one of the strongest presumptive arguments in favour of a future state of existence and of recompcnce ?

    We hesitate to admit a conjecture of the preacher ' s , that in the world to come we shall be (< made acquainted with the nature of the Deity . " He quotes 1 John iii . 2 , which he reads , < f We shall see God as he is , " substituting God for him . In grammatical strictness , the antecedent is no doubt

    correctly supplied , but the style of the writer allows us to understand it in what we conceive to be the more natural sense , that is , of Christ . There are instances of the same latitude of speech in ch . ii . ver . 29 , and in ch . iii . ver . 5 , a few sentences below that

    which is quoted by Dr . Smith . On the former of these passages , Grotius says , " Nempe Deus . Transit de Christo ad Deum , quanquam nomine Dei hie non expre ^ so ; ut mox iii . 5 , et 1 G , it Deo ad Christum . Nee id

    , cum utriusque mentio praeces serit . Similis transitio infrk iv . 17 et 1 ? " On the latter he says , " Jam diximus subaudiri life nomen Christi ,

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    \ quanquam ex longinquo , et quanquam Dei mentio intercessit . " An interesting memoir of Mr . Howe forms the conclusion of the sermon . The leading biographical particulars have been

    inserted in our preceding " numbers by Mr . Fawcett ( pp . 52—54 of the present Volume ) and Mr . Bransby ( Vol . XV . pp . 717—722 ) . The latter correspondent furnished us ( p . 722 ) with a list of Mr . Howe ' s publications .

    Dr . Smith has drawn the character of Mr . Howe with great truth . The following is a pleasing description of his dying views and feelings : t € 1 was with him , not when he first conceived the idea , but when he appeared first to receive the conviction that his

    disease was mortal . His complaints had assumed an alarming character . I was solicited to see him with his medical friend who was in the habit of attending him . When he conceived that I had satisfied my mind with regard to the nature of his disease , he fixed his eyes

    upon me composedly , yet earnestly : * I am not afraid to know the truth , ' said he , and I do not wish to be deceived . ' And when the solemn truth , solemn to all , took possession of his mind , the placid expression of his features altered

    not . ' It is well , * said he , * I trust I am prepared ! ' And immediately he joined the family circle , conversed with his usual cheerfulness , and without pretension , and without effort , was cheerful . And to the latest moment of life he continued

    cheerful . He mixed with the living , knowing that he was marked as the prey of death With an intelligent and contemplative mind , fully aware of his situation , conscious that a disease was at work within him , whose ravages could not be checked , but might at any instant , and which

    probably would very suddenly , separate lain from every earthly object , he continued to derive from those objects their wonted satisfactions , saying , in the true spirit of an elevated devotion , Whenever it shall please their donor , I am ready to resign them ! " —Pp . 44 , 45 .

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    Art . III . —An Eaoa ruination , SfC . ( Continued from p . 113 . ) IN Chap . III ., Dr . Carpenter gives a " General View of Unitarian Doctrine : what Unitarianism is and what it is not . " Would Bampton Lecturers and other worthy divines who think themselves called to denounce heresy ,

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    Reviett " . —Dr . Carpenter * * Examination of Bishop Magee . 169

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/41/