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    which Unitarians desire to direct the attention of the inquirer . It lays down , in the first place , the principles which they adopt in interpreting- the Scriptures , and then slates the doc- * trines which the Scriptures so

    interpreted , seem to them clearly to express . It takes a broad view of Unitarian doctrine , and respects almost solely " those topics on which our sentiments have been misrepresented , or which distinguish us most widely from others . "

    The mode of statement adopted by Ot . Channing is judiciously adapted to conciliate , without sinking into unmanly concealment . It unites the plain delineation of truth , with the manifestation of earnestness of

    conviction founded on a sense of its importance . It shews the Unitarian doctrine in its connexion with its practical influences ; and few serious , intelligent persons , if they have not much attended to the differences among professed Christians , or been impressed with the shibboleth of party , would hesitate to receive the sentiments of

    the discourse as the faith once delivered to the suints . Its truly evangelical character , as well as its impress of high intellectual talent , make it admirably adapted for distribution among persons of intelligence and Christian dispositions ; and as there

    are no opposing associations connected with the name of the author , and it comes from a far country , it may sometimes gain ( indeed it has been known to gain ) a degree of attention among the orthodox , which even its intrinsic merit might not otherwise have secured it .

    Taking them in the order in which the American pamphlets have been reprinted in England , the next is A Sermon delivered Dec . 18 , 1821 , at the Ordination of the Rev . William Ware , to the Pastoral Charge of the

    First Congregational Church in New York , - By his Father , Henry Ware , D . D ., Jlollis Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge , Massachusetts . From the New York Second Edition , Liverpool , 1822 . Price (> rf .

    Dr . Ware is the respectable individual whp drew up the queries to JVlr . Adam agd . Banunohim Boy ; and he appears in this Sermon in an interesting -character both as a Pjvinte . and as a

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    Father . When Dr . Channing returned from Baltimore , after the ordination of Mr . Sparks , he was urged to preach at New York , by some distinguished individuals , who obtained for him the use of the Medical Hall ; and this led to the establishment of a Unita *

    nan congregation and the building * of a place of worship . JVlr . Ware went from Boston to aid in carrying on the object , and he was afterwards appointed to the pastoral charge , Mr , Henry Ware ( his younger brother we presume ) is designated the ' ? Minister

    of the Second Church in Boston , " in the title of a Jittle volume , of which we hope soon to give some account , $ ad which has already been reviewed in the Eclectic Review . It is entitled Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching ; and we recommend the study of it to our young ministers and students .

    Professor Ware ' s Sermon is founded on Acts xxviii . 22 . It displays the baneful influence of bigotry in preventing a due attention to evidence , and interrupting the progress of free inquiry ; and it points out the course which the Unitarian minister has to

    follow , in order to weaken prejudice , and to gain a fair hearing for what he deems the truth . It is earnest , argumentative and impressive . It is probably not much known among as ; and as it has not yet been noticed in tiie Repository , we will select a few

    passages from it . After observing that the liberal and enlarged spirit which has gradually destroyed the restraints once imposed in other departments of human inquiry , hae not extended

    itself , in equal degree , to the subject of religion ; and shewing that the work of reformation must , from the very nature of the subject , be gradual and slow , Dr . Ware proceeds , with truth and beauty of comparison ,

    " It is no reproach to those who took the lead in jfcat important work , that they stopped at the threshold , and left it to be completed by their successors . To the most perfect and faithful organs of vision , the first dawn of returning light

    mast present objects but imperfectly ; not vyitb distinctness , nor in their j «« t shape and dimensions . And if , besides , the organs themselves have become distempered by groping in the dark , or their power or exactness be impaired by distise , it may serve still further to prolong the period pf jrnperfect vision , and , even at

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    3 $ 8 Occasional Notices of Aittericun Publications .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 366, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/40/