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From the following specimen , the reader will , we think , form no unfavourable judgment of the merits of the work . ' Observe , my countrymen , I set out with deprecating the erroneous notion , that this is a time for considering whether the war were originally well or illfounded ; whether it were a matter of choice , or necessity -, whether it were ,, or were not , misconducted . If it were commenced in error , and misconducted in its progress , your duty to yourselves requires that , now you are
acting on the defensive , you should exert your utmost vigour . You are now at war , on the defensive , ir . very disadvantageous circumstances ; and this stake not less than existence . It is now your business to consider , not howit began , but how it shall end ; not to debate whether , in 179 a , you committed an act of aggression on Prance , or she on you ; but whether , in 1798 , you will tamely suffer yourselves to be destroyed by France : not to brood with fruitless lamentation and vindictive malignity over the calamities you have sustained , but to search for means to secure your future successes . '
A Sermon preached at Monkivell-street Meeting-house , OBoher 16 th , 179 6 , on Occasion of the Death of Dr . James Pordyce , formerly Pastor of that Congregation , by James Lindsay . Johnson , is . ( id . THE subject of this sermon is the general character of a christian pastot , ¦ with a particular account of the ministry of that able and good man on whose death it was preacheJ . It is the produ ' & ion of a well-informed ,
comprehensive understanding , inspired by liberal sentiments . He considers Christianity as a most excellent system of practical p iety and morality ; and the end of the christian ministry to be the explanation of its doctrines , and tbe impression of its precepts , motives , and sentiments , for the promotion of the temporal ancl eternal happiness of mankind : he estimates the constitution , and the individual chara . l ' ers of its members , by their tendency to the attainment of these important objects .
' What , ' says he , ' is the end of the Christian ministry , according to the design of the office on its first appointment ? Is it not to spread the knowledge of its doctrines among the people , and to insure , as far as human means can ensure , its reception and effeQ : ? Is it not to remove , by candid appeal , the causes which obstruct its progress , and to open the hearts of men to
embrace ir , in the love thereof ? Is it not to present , from time to time , such views of this high dispensation of divine grace to a sinful world , as may inspire them with love to God , and to one another ; as may render them more active in the discharge of duty , more impregnable against the assaults of temptation-, more independent of the world , in respect of happiness , and more resigned , in all circumstances , to the appointments of infinite Wisdom ? Is it not , in short , to lead the weary and heavy-laden to those sources of
never-failing consolation , which mitigate the evils of mortality ; and to make them triumph in the thought , that they shall quit ere long this vale of tears ; to follow those good men , who have been their guides in the way of wisdom , and are their fore-runners to the mansions of g lory ? ' The author avows himself inimical to all civil establishments of reli g ion ; and . though we by no means concur in this conclusion-, candour obliges us to declare , that we think the arguments which he adduces to establish itcombine moderation
and'in-, genuity . On the whole , though we do not approve of his antimonarchical notions , we think the sermon displays habits of accurate composition , knowledge , ability , and liberality , and recommend itto the perusal of all those readers , 'who can beai- piety , morality , and reasoning , though not squared exactly by die rule of St . Athanasius .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications:
From the following specimen , the reader will , we think , form no unfavourable judgment of the merits of the work . ' Observe , my countrymen , I set out with deprecating the erroneous notion , that this is a time for considering whether the war were originally well or illfounded ; whether it were a matter of choice , or necessity -, whether it were ,, or were not , misconducted . If it were commenced in error , and misconducted in its progress , your duty to yourselves requires that , now you are
acting on the defensive , you should exert your utmost vigour . You are now at war , on the defensive , ir . very disadvantageous circumstances ; and this stake not less than existence . It is now your business to consider , not howit began , but how it shall end ; not to debate whether , in 179 a , you committed an act of aggression on Prance , or she on you ; but whether , in 1798 , you will tamely suffer yourselves to be destroyed by France : not to brood with fruitless lamentation and vindictive malignity over the calamities you have sustained , but to search for means to secure your future successes . '
A Sermon preached at Monkivell-street Meeting-house , OBoher 16 th , 179 6 , on Occasion of the Death of Dr . James Pordyce , formerly Pastor of that Congregation , by James Lindsay . Johnson , is . ( id . THE subject of this sermon is the general character of a christian pastot , ¦ with a particular account of the ministry of that able and good man on whose death it was preacheJ . It is the produ ' & ion of a well-informed ,
comprehensive understanding , inspired by liberal sentiments . He considers Christianity as a most excellent system of practical p iety and morality ; and the end of the christian ministry to be the explanation of its doctrines , and tbe impression of its precepts , motives , and sentiments , for the promotion of the temporal ancl eternal happiness of mankind : he estimates the constitution , and the individual chara . l ' ers of its members , by their tendency to the attainment of these important objects .
' What , ' says he , ' is the end of the Christian ministry , according to the design of the office on its first appointment ? Is it not to spread the knowledge of its doctrines among the people , and to insure , as far as human means can ensure , its reception and effeQ : ? Is it not to remove , by candid appeal , the causes which obstruct its progress , and to open the hearts of men to
embrace ir , in the love thereof ? Is it not to present , from time to time , such views of this high dispensation of divine grace to a sinful world , as may inspire them with love to God , and to one another ; as may render them more active in the discharge of duty , more impregnable against the assaults of temptation-, more independent of the world , in respect of happiness , and more resigned , in all circumstances , to the appointments of infinite Wisdom ? Is it not , in short , to lead the weary and heavy-laden to those sources of
never-failing consolation , which mitigate the evils of mortality ; and to make them triumph in the thought , that they shall quit ere long this vale of tears ; to follow those good men , who have been their guides in the way of wisdom , and are their fore-runners to the mansions of g lory ? ' The author avows himself inimical to all civil establishments of reli g ion ; and . though we by no means concur in this conclusion-, candour obliges us to declare , that we think the arguments which he adduces to establish itcombine moderation
and'in-, genuity . On the whole , though we do not approve of his antimonarchical notions , we think the sermon displays habits of accurate composition , knowledge , ability , and liberality , and recommend itto the perusal of all those readers , 'who can beai- piety , morality , and reasoning , though not squared exactly by die rule of St . Athanasius .