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1793 Jun
 1793-Jun | Critical Review, review of "Sermons on Various Subjects, Intended to Promote Christian Knowledge and Human Happiness, By the Rev. Luke Booker, (London, 1793)," Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature 8 (1793-Jun): 169-72; Online at Google Books.
Sermons on various Subjects, intended to promote Christian Knowledge and Human Happiness. By the Rev. Luke Booker, LL.D. Minister of St. Edmund's, Dudley. 8vo. 6s. Boards. Rivingtons. 1793.
Of this volume we are informed by the author, that the sermons it contains were written to be preached rather than to be published. Perspicuity and plainness therefore, are qualities which he has been solicitous to attain than elegance and refinement. Had his mind been pre-occupied by the idea of Publication his diction might have been more polished and correct; but would it not have been less warm and impressive?—He would then have written from the head,—whereas these discourses flowed from the heart. To an enlightened public he submits them with a cherished confidence in its candour; yet not without a just apprehension of its censure,—a more painful apprehension, he confesses, than at other times he experienced when approaching his tribunal.
The subjects are:— 1. Faith. 2. Hope. 3. Charity. 4. Suicide. 5, 6. Disappointment and Happiness. 7. The peculiar Duties of Christianity, (a farewell sermon.) 8. Britain's Happiness. (An Assize Sermon.) 9. Justice and Mercy, ditto. 10. The Duty of Children to their Parents. 11, 12, 13, 14. The Divinity and Humiliation of Christ. 15. The Divinity of Christ. 16. Addressed to young Persons on Confirmation. 17. Christ weeping over Jerusalem. 18. On Humanity to the Brute Creation.
Dr. Booker is the author of several poetical compositions, which have been received with general approbation; and if a numerous list of subscribers be vouchers of their merit, this evidence he can produce in favour of his sermons. Indeed, so extended is their number, that a large impression, we understand, have been found insufficient to supply the demand. These discourses are written with considerable animation, but whether the style be not rather too lofty for a common audience, and sometimes too poetical, we will leave for others to determine.…
…Dr. Booker will, no doubt, aptly to the syndics of the university press to introduce, in the future editions of the prayer-book, his emendation of the Nicene creed.
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