Lectures Illustrating the Contrast Between true Christianity and Various other Systems. By William B. Sprague, D. D. [pp. 524-536]

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condition soever, though each in different sort and manner,
yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of
their peace and joy."
ART. 1II.-Lectures illus?trating the Contrast between true
Christianity and various other Systems; by William
B. Sprague, D.D., Minister of the Second Presbyterian
Congregation in.lbany. New-York: Daniel Appleton
& Co. 1837. pp. 386.
DR. SPRAGUE holds the pen of a ready writer. It seems
to give him little trouble to throw off a volume of several
hundreds of pages. And as he is a ready, so he is a useful
writer: his opinions seldom furnish occasion for just censure;
and his style is so free from blemish that there is little left
for the critic but to applaud. The only fault which we re member to have heard charged against his style is that it is
so smooth as often to be deficient in vigour. But what ever may be the fact in regard to former publications, we
are of opinion that the lectures now before us furnish no evidence of) the fault in question: they are evidently written,
not only in a style of uncommon perspicuity, but with point
and force. It was our design before this time to give a review of this publication, which seems not yet to have attracted as much attention as the importance of the subjects treated, and the excellence of the composition demand; but by
the press of other matters our space has been so pre-occupied,
that we could not find room for many things which we wished to lay before the public.
These lectures furnish much correct and valuable information respecting the false systems of which they treat; and
will, we think, be hereafter considered by the judicious part
of the Christian public, as a production of Dr. Sprague's pen,
which has as good claims to become a standard work in our
Theological literature, as any other with which he has favoured the world. The lectures are eight in number. The following are their titles, in the order in which they are arranged:
1. Christianity contrasted with Atheism. 2. Christianity contrasted with Paganism. 3. Christianity contrasted with Deism.
4. Christianity contrasted with Mohamedism. 5. Protestant
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