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A Retrospective View Of The Literature Of The Year 1797.
present , when not only religious days of commemoration are contemned , but even the high and ancient appropriation of orle day in seven to devotional rest is slighted . The Charge of Dr . O'Beirne , Bishop of Ossory , at his annual vi ~ station , 179 6 , 1 s a discourse that calls for particular notice and recommendation . The duties of the clerical body are elucidated and inculcated in a forcible , and , in many respects , novel manner .
The Discourses of the late Bishop Thomas of Rochester are entitled to respectable mention : as is the memoir of the venerable author prefixed . The controversy excited by the abandoned author of' The Age of Reason , ' we are sorry to observers still kept up , through the ' injudicious zeal of some well-meaning believers . Plad this most wretched production of infidelity been suffered to remain in its deserved obscurity , we should have had little reason to lament its ill effects . The only
answerto it that falls within the limits of our present notice is Mr . Levi ' s Defence of the Old Testament , ' which is highly creditable to the writer , and deserves very careful perusal . Mr . Wilson ' s ' Illustration of the Method of explaining the New Testament by the early Opinions of the Jews and Christians concerning Christ , ' is a performance of much learning and ingenuity ; though it adds but little to the strength afforded to the orthodox cause bthe
y labours of Waferland and Horsley . Dr . Priestley ' s' Discourses on the Evidences of Revealed Religion , ' in two volumes ,. will be read with pleasure by every enquiring mind , as being both abundant and novel in argument , on a most important topic .
• To notice any great number of single sermons would be a tedious and impertinent task . We shall , therefore , only mention a few of the most eminent . Dr . Eveleig h ' s ' Plurality of Persons in the Godhead , ' before the University of Oxford , is in fact a continuation of a ' controversy between him and Dr . Blayney , the translator of Zechariah . Dr . Eveleig h ' s abilities as a linguist , theologian , and logicianare of the first rank . It is singular that the Trinitarian cause
, in the present century has had two champions of the same name ; the other was the Rev . Josiah Eveleigh , the antagonist of Pierce and Hallett , the founders of an Arian assembly at Exeter . Dr . Gregory ' s ' Sermon on Suicide' before the Plumane Society is an ingenious discourse on an affecting subject . Dr . Gerrard's sermon ' On Indifference with respect to reliious
g Truth , ' before the Synod of Aberdeen , is a close and animated composition . Dr . Hunter ' s Funeral Sermon for Mr . Fell we have read ivith great pleasure . Of discourses preached on public days we shall say nothing , as , however well-written they may be , they usually die with the occasion . [ TO IE CONTINUED ]
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A Retrospective View Of The Literature Of The Year 1797.
present , when not only religious days of commemoration are contemned , but even the high and ancient appropriation of orle day in seven to devotional rest is slighted . The Charge of Dr . O'Beirne , Bishop of Ossory , at his annual vi ~ station , 179 6 , 1 s a discourse that calls for particular notice and recommendation . The duties of the clerical body are elucidated and inculcated in a forcible , and , in many respects , novel manner .
The Discourses of the late Bishop Thomas of Rochester are entitled to respectable mention : as is the memoir of the venerable author prefixed . The controversy excited by the abandoned author of' The Age of Reason , ' we are sorry to observers still kept up , through the ' injudicious zeal of some well-meaning believers . Plad this most wretched production of infidelity been suffered to remain in its deserved obscurity , we should have had little reason to lament its ill effects . The only
answerto it that falls within the limits of our present notice is Mr . Levi ' s Defence of the Old Testament , ' which is highly creditable to the writer , and deserves very careful perusal . Mr . Wilson ' s ' Illustration of the Method of explaining the New Testament by the early Opinions of the Jews and Christians concerning Christ , ' is a performance of much learning and ingenuity ; though it adds but little to the strength afforded to the orthodox cause bthe
y labours of Waferland and Horsley . Dr . Priestley ' s' Discourses on the Evidences of Revealed Religion , ' in two volumes ,. will be read with pleasure by every enquiring mind , as being both abundant and novel in argument , on a most important topic .
• To notice any great number of single sermons would be a tedious and impertinent task . We shall , therefore , only mention a few of the most eminent . Dr . Eveleig h ' s ' Plurality of Persons in the Godhead , ' before the University of Oxford , is in fact a continuation of a ' controversy between him and Dr . Blayney , the translator of Zechariah . Dr . Eveleig h ' s abilities as a linguist , theologian , and logicianare of the first rank . It is singular that the Trinitarian cause
, in the present century has had two champions of the same name ; the other was the Rev . Josiah Eveleigh , the antagonist of Pierce and Hallett , the founders of an Arian assembly at Exeter . Dr . Gregory ' s ' Sermon on Suicide' before the Plumane Society is an ingenious discourse on an affecting subject . Dr . Gerrard's sermon ' On Indifference with respect to reliious
g Truth , ' before the Synod of Aberdeen , is a close and animated composition . Dr . Hunter ' s Funeral Sermon for Mr . Fell we have read ivith great pleasure . Of discourses preached on public days we shall say nothing , as , however well-written they may be , they usually die with the occasion . [ TO IE CONTINUED ]