Comments on Sterne, SB 
my opinion, that the manner, the ftyle, and the 
felection of fubjects for thofe Sermons, were derived 
from the excellent Contemplations of Bifhop Hall. 
There isa delicacy of thought, and tendernefs of 
expreffion in the good Bifhop’s compofitions, from 
the transfufion ef which Sterne looked for immor- 
tality. 
Let us compare that f ngular Sermon, entitled 
Tre Leyme ano nis Concuzine, with part of the 
Bifhop’s Contemplation of the Leyite’s Concustne, 
I bis follow Sterne’s order. 
— Then fhame and grief go with her, and 
‘« wherever fhe feeks a fhelter, may the hand of 
** juitice {hut the door againft her.”* 
What hufoand would not have Jfaid—She is gone, let 
Shame and grizf go with her; I fhall find one no lefs pleaf- 
Jing, and more faithful.+ . 
** Our annotators tell us, that in Jewifh econo~ 
** ‘micks, thefe (concubines) differed little from 
** the wife, except in fome outward ceremonies and 
* ftipulations, but agreed with her in all the true 
** effences of marriage.” 
The Law of God, fays the Bifhop, allowed the 
Levite a wife; human cénnivance a concubine; neither did 
the Fewifh concubine differ from a wife, but in Jome out- 
ward compliments; both might challenge all the true effence 
of marriage. ' 
of marriag i 2 
* Sterne, Sermon xviii. 
+ Bp. Hall’s Works, p. 1017. 
$ Sterne loc, citat, 
