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from heaven upon every opponent , he may give his body to be burned in mainfaifiifig the sentiments of his party , and go round the world to make prbselytes , and boast of
his faith and inward feelings , and extraordinary exertions to suppress whatever he calls heresy ; but if he be not meek and lowly of heart , if he be oppressive and unjust , if he be filled with wrath and malice
and envying , if he circulate an evil report of his neighbour , and do not do to all others as he would bfc treaited himself ; and if his piety beMnothin g else but clamour and grimace , and if he do not manifest his love of God by the love of his fellow creatures who are
made in his image , he only deceives himself whjlst he claims a peculiar interest in his favour . The righteous Lord loveth and re . watfdetfi the righteous-only , and rkjuiret-h * th & t we turn unto him
wilh aH the heaftt , that we grateftuly embrace the message of his gr && , and so make our light to shine ^ tb & t others seeing our good wxrrks may be likewise taught to glorify our heavenly Father . Let u £ Mot trust in imaginary feelings
ahd revelations therefore , nor in tlidse rapturous flights which are th & fruits of ignorance and a Pharisaic pride and frenzy , nor look ( 6 i mira £ ulotis conversions , and the interposition of an irresistible gr & ce ; but if we value the divine wisdom , and believe in the
testimony of Jesus , we must , in the first pla £ e , deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts ; and in the next pla £ e live sdberly , righteously and piously in the world ; we rMast frrifrnifest our I 0 V 4 ? of God by tftfck & epiligof his commandments , afid the love of our Lord Jesus Ofriritft bywelteing even as he
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wa 1 ked ; we mtis t d £ v 6 u t \ y ®&& f & ship the alone Sovereign , and o ^ ft ; our hearts to all the instrucuorii of his word ; we- must sftpf ) refcg all our wrathful , envious ,- tft *< l
malignant passion ; we must love ^ all our fellow creatures , and be kind , merciful and forgiving , peaceable , gentle , and easy to be intreated : we must watch and
pray against temptation ; and , looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith , must endeavour to have always the same mind in us which was also in hifrv ,
to be always doing good and making happy , to make the Lord our refuge , to praise him tor the
glorious light which he has given us into another world , arid to t > e making suitable preparations for it , by resigning ourselves to th ^ divine pleasure in all circumstan
ces , by fixing our hearts upon trie inheritance which is before u & > and adding to our faith fortitude , knowledge , temperance , & c ; and thus , as the consistent heirs and expectants of a blessed
immortality , securing to ourselves our house which is from heaven . This is the true way to eternal life , instead of a confident reliance upon
the doctrines and commandments of men , or a clamorous substitution of works of supererogation , and our belief in we know not what , in the room of that righteousness which the gospel enforces upon us as essentially requisite to the divine favour .
But we must also consider , that the Lord Jesus came into the world to confirm to us this important truth , that we ate only pilgrims and sojourners her £ < vho
look forward to a diir & ble habitia ^ tion in the'heavens ; that we riitnt copy his example to unheirit tli & fe
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/19/
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