Record Number: 12997
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
"The following remarks made by the compilers of the Monthy Review for 1788, page 286, are so applicable to the present subject, that I hope my introducing the passage will not be deemed improper." Quotes "Such doctrine no doubt must be comfortable to poor wretches so circumstanced as those were to whom this pious preacher had the goodness to adedress his discourse; but some (and those not men of shallow reflection) have questioned whether it is altogether right, thus to free the most flagitious outcasts of society from the terrors of an after-reckoning; since it is too well known, that most of them make little account of their punishment in this world. Instead of the 'fearful looking for of (future) judgement;' they are enraptured witht the priospect of a joyful flight 'to the expanded arms of a loving Saviour__ longing to embrace his long lost children' Surely this is not the way (humanly speaking) to check the alarming progress of moral depravity; to which, one would think no kind of encouragement ought to be given."
Century:1700-1799
Date:unknown
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:31 Aug 1746
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Bookseller rising socially
Bookseller
Religion:lapsed Methodist
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Monthly Review
Genre:Other religious, Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsMonthly Review, 1788 (page 286)
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Source Information:
Record ID:12997
Source:James Lackington
Editor:n/a
Title:Memoirs of the Forty Five First Years of The Life James Lackington
Place of Publication:London, Temple of the Muses
Date of Publication:1794
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Page:283
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Citation:
James Lackington, Memoirs of the Forty Five First Years of The Life James Lackington, (London, Temple of the Muses, 1794), p. 283, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12997, accessed: 27 September 2024
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