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THEOLOGY AND ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. 
Art. XLV. Britons exhorted to the Defence of their Country, in an Address on the 
threatened Invasion by France, delivered Aug. 28, 1803, at Trim-Street Chapel, Bath, 
by the Rev. Tuomas Broapuurst. 
«“ IT is a good land,” saith the 
preacher, from Deut. i. 25, which the 
Lord our God doth give us.” Warmed 
by the contemplation of its excellencies, 
indignant at the threats of an usurping 
enemy to rob us of our envied enjoy- 
ments, he endeavours to excite in the 
breasts of others similar feelings, and, 
we apprehend, not without success. We 
cannot forbear from making one short 
extract from this animated address : 
«« Blest with the enjoyment of personal 
liberty, and the seeutity of property, and 
free from all oppression of rank and greatness, 
the inhabitants of Britain are deeply interest- 
ed in the preservation of much actual and 
positive good. But even if our situation 
were less favourable to happiness than it is, 
eyen if our lives and our property were en- 
dered Jess secure by the misconduct of our 
governors, and by acts of extortion and of 
cruelty, we cannot suppose that our condi- 
tion would be at all ameliorated by a change 
of masters, and especially of such masters 
as we should find those to be, who are an- 
xiously endeavouring to make us their prey. 
No, my countrymen, our situation would be 
a thousand times worse. We should be 
scornfully trampled to the dust. We should 
be ground to pieces by oppression. | Our 
implacable enemies would satiate their ut- 
most vengeance upon us in every possible 
way that malignity and ingenuity could de- 
vise. We should become hewers of wood, 
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and drawers of water. We should be chain- 
ed to the oar, or consigned to the dungeon. 
Foreign troops would take up their abode ~ 
with us in our dwellings ; and we should be 
daily insulted by the sight of those who had 
deprived us of every thing but life, and who 
would be ready to deprive us of that upoi 
the slightest suspicion or provocation. The 
roduce of our industry we should not be at 
iberty to enjoy. We should, indeed, plough 
and sow our fields, but our proud conquerors 
would reap the harvest. ‘The flower of our 
youth would be pressed into the service of 
their tyrannic masters, and be sent from their 
homes to engage in supporting a system of 
universal oppression, and in making fresh 
additions to lawless power. O fatal day! 
when such is the lot of Englishmen! That 
day will be a day of weeping and lamentation. 
That day wil! be wrapt in clouds and dark- 
ness. f 
awful day, wishes for the advent of all that 
is calamitous and dreadful. He is the ene- 
my of his country. He is the enemy of the 
human race. Tie is a base degencrate son 
of Britain, fit only to be a slave 5 fit onl 
to associate with those, who have lost all 
dignity of sentiment and elevation of mind. 
He possesses neither the spirit of a man, 
nor the philanthropy of a Christian. There 
is not such a man among us. If there be, 
he was not born in this happy isle. .He was 
never nurtured in a land of freedom. * From 
his natal day he has breathed only the pol- 
luted air of slavery.” 
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Arr. XLV1. Courage and Union in a Time of National Danger, a Sermon, preached 
Oct. 9, 1808, at the Unitarian Chapel, Essex-street, by the Rev. JerEMIAH Joyce. 
Second edition, 8vo. 
FROM the example of Nehemiah, re- 
corded Nehemiah vi. 13, Mr. Joyce re- 
commends the most strenuous and fear- 
less opposition to that ambitious power 
which threatens to invade us; and ex- 
horts his countrymen to determine to 
risque their lives to defend their inde- 
pendence. This sermon is another of 
those animated patriotic addresses which 
, 
the peculiar circumstances of the times 
have called forth; and will, no doubt, 
greatly contribute to “ rouse his coun- 
trymen to the exercise of those rights 
which may be the means of securing to 
themselves and their descendants the 
same honourable rank in the world they 
have so long held.” 
FAST SERMONS. 
Art. XLVII. Britain’s Defence. A Sermon preached Aug. 21, 1803, in the Protestant 
Dissenting Mecting House, Battersea. By Joseru Hucues, A.M. 8vo. pp. 43. 
OF this sermon many passages are 
eloquent and beautiful; and many others 
claim a much higher praise, that of be- 
ing animated by a spirit truly benevolent 
and evangelical. Weare informed that 
the subject of this discourse was chosen 
with an immediate reference to a circular 
meeting for prayer and exhortation, re- 
Whoever wishes for the arrival of that —_ 
