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    tttey are * pit ^ 'mfa ' * ttd ti ± t ,--Hfr at fak tekd of this ilfeckmrse . Tftee * - ^ dsirion and application fcf the t& £ t hk &ifod tottfatfds the end of the Sermon . Amongst the errors of the

    Christifttt w 6 i * ld , Mr . Belsham reckons a frefliante tipon tTie " mediation' * of Chrfefv *< as a means of acceptance with < $ od / ' on which subject , he says , f £ tf > tf a word is advanced from the

    beginning to the end of the New Tes ^ € anfeftt' "( pi > . 196 > 197 ) - He must Purely triean to be understood of the mediation of Christ according to the Calvimstic sense . Of a part of our Lord ' s office of mediation or delegation , he bh&sfclf says in another dis * coarse ( XV . p . 355 ) ,

    * / The Christian Scriptures reveal the interesting fact , that the Lord JesuS Chri&t / wiirt > e the delegate of his heavfeniy father , to hold the grand assize , and to occupy the seat of judgment on that all-important day ; of which delegation God hath given the fullest assurance , in that he hath raised him from

    the dead /' We should hesitate in setting down to the account of " Superstition" the persuasion , that Christian teachers d are under peculiar obligation to sanctity of conduct and severity of

    morals" < p . 201 ) : nothing appears to us plainer than that , according ta the Apostle ' s doctrine , Rom . ii . 17 , et $ e , q ., the criminality of bad actioas is in the direct ratio of the knowledge and profession of virtue , and of the motives which must be resisted and

    violated in the commission of evil . Ser . X . ** The Character and Destiny of the Righteous and the Wickerf , " is an exposition and application of ' the first Psalm . It is a plain and useful'discourse . In explaining- tlie u destiny" of the " wicked , " Mr . Belsham ' exhibits " the terrors of the

    law " . " The Analogy between Natural and Moral Disorders" ( from Luke v-31 ) is the title of Ser . XI . In less judicious hands than Mr . Belsham ' s this would have been a subject of

    questionable propriety . However treated , it is a humiliating topic . Who does not envy Mr . Belsham' ' s clear and bright views of the Divine government ? ** Ooirect views of moral subjects will alsti m&n * fe $ t the perfect eonsti-

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    tefify of rti&rat ^ e ^ an ^ re « epomibtliip imtk the' Msti 0 t j ^ fr k ? iowl $ dge and the overfylmg Wfo ^ dence of G 6 d : Pp . 2 ^ # 7 f ; f \ The preacher thus defines Vipe : " The true definitioiy of-1 vice iis that s ^ &te of mind , or that modification of the habits and affections , whivfo consti ^

    tutes or tends to the greatest ultimate mi ± sery of tbe agent , or Which detraete from or diuiiRishes his greatest ultimate bap - piness . " ~ P . 237 , Is not sometftinff vvapted to make the definitidn perfectly Cb ^ ti aa ?

    Sen XII . is entftfed < c Tlie Transitory Mature of th 6 \ VorM apA- its jpesires / ' and is from 1 John iL 17- T ^ he Introdoction is a very fioe passage . The preacher , in explaining his . text , seera ^ to have had in hie- eye Dr . J >

    oddridge ' s beautiful hyittii upoa the kindred passage in 1 Cor . vii . 31 , one verse of which is in our judgment etninently poetic : we remember hear ing the late Mr . Worttiington quote it in the pulpit in hi 3 best manner , and with uncommon effect :

    The empty pageant rolls along ; The giddy , unexperienc ed throng Pursue it with enchanted eyes : It passetii in swift march away , Still niore and more its charms decay , Till the last gaudy colour dies *

    The word " disgrace" is used in its etymological rather than its customary sense in the following : sentence , ; pji 265 : " Mortality is the dikgruce of all tilings here below . " May we add , that here bednv is one of the frequent inelegancies of pulpit compositt ^ u ?; The next Sermon , the Xftttjv is from the same text , but on a ( JiffVrenlt

    subject , viz- " The Stability of the Good Man amidst tlie Changes of Life . TUe division of this Sennou is , unlike the excellent preacher ' s usual mode , smart and almost epicrrammatic : " We have here a

    cfiaracter described aad a ['' | irivilege * & nexed . ^ P . 285 . From a siinilar text we remember nearing a celebrated preacher amongst the Calvinistic Dissenters , yet living , announce his subject in this manner : " V \ e shall shew the condition of the

    privilege , and the privilege of the condition . The Sermon is what hearers are accustomed to call " very good : " the conclusion merits a higher and lesa b&cknied epithet r *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1826, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2550/page/40/