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como under our consideration , being led thereto by the following reasons : — We have with concern for some time past looked upon the
congregation as dwindling in numbers and destitute of those Christian graces , that were the beauty and excellency of dissenting congregations , when our ancestors for conscience sake , and for Christ ' s sake became dissenters , and which we now see among those congregations where those doctrines are
proclaimed . We cannot also but lament the present unpromising prospect of otrr ' s being otherwise . True it is , a Paul may plant and A pottos may water , but all to no purpose , without it please God to bless and prosper their labours . We would therefore learn not to depend upon man , as the Lord can make
the weakest instrument subservient to the greatest good ; but without his blessing the most zealous and laborious of the servants of Christ will labour but in vain . We do not in this * attempt to lay any blame upon you , as we cannot but hope that what you have received of the Lord , that you have
delivered unto us . Yet , as we here see and know but in part , it appears to us that you have not those views , at least , do not proclaim those truths which we think a minister of the gospel should have and do , we mean such as we think Paul and other of the disciples and ministers of Christ had and did * Here *
dear Sir , we hope you will not stop and censure us , as positive and dogmatical , but beg your candid hearing whilst engaged in this task in which we think it is our duty to be full and faithful . We apprehend you do not , agreeable to the word of God , in that express manlier which the gospel seems to point out ,
inform sinners of their lost and undone state by nature and practice , nor display their wretchedness whilst in such a state of nature , and their danger of perishing for ever , if found out of Christ at death ; and that you do not in that full
and express manner which we apprehend the gospel does , in- » vite , encourage * allure and drive sinners to the Lord Jesus Christ as the only refuge and only hope ; nor do we think you sufficiently set forth the beauty , excellency , sufficiency and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 22, 1819, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1710/page/12/
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