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r r srppearedwith more propriety , and to greater advantage , somewhat nearer to the time when they were delivered . We hope our brethren of the South wilPavail themselves on future Occasions of our hint , which is given solely with a view to the pro * motion of their and our great object , the spread of ** Scriptural
Christianity *" Gah iv . 18 * " Tt is good to be zealously affected always in a good -thing /* This is a standing text on the subject of ' Christian zeal ; and . as a motto it is excellent ; but it may not be improper to remark , that the supplementary word * thing' suits not the Apostle ' s argument so well as the word person ^ adopted by
modern translators . When passages of scripture are used with but even a shade of difference from their true original meaning , it is better we < x ) nceiv « e to avow and explain the accommodation ; the contrary custom of preachers has * contributed more than any thing to obscure the sacred text .
Mr . Youatt presumes very fairly that the object of this Society is a good thing : " kbeing , according to their own declaration , " the promotion of the knowledge of the Scriptures and the practice of virtue by the distribution of books / ' There
cannot indeed be anoWer object of association . Zeal in the cause of the Society is recommended by the preacher , on the ground of a regard to the honour of God- ^ -to the spread of the gospel—and to the prevalence of devotion ^ peace of mind , ap 4 virtue . His censures on the Calvinistic scheme of doctrine are bold ; but they will not be deemed uncandid by those that reflect , that as a Unitarian , he must necessarily look upon Calvinism as a deplorable corruption of the Christian faith , and that a pattern of zealous opposition to error
was set him by the Apostle , from whom he borrowed his text , to whose honour it is recorded that he withstood a fellow-apostle to the face , because he was to be blamed . " The discourse is commen ^ ably plain , serious , and energetic .
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REV . MOSES NAILE- —On the 15 th of February died , at Frome , in the 36 th year of his age , the subject of this obituary , of a paralytic affection . His parents belong to one of the societies in the connexion of the late jMr . Wesley , and are persons of a respectable and religious character . He was educated in the same persuasion , and possessed in the earlier part of hlS life similar religious senti-
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ments with his parents and friends . But inquiry led him to conclude that Christian Baptism was a Christian personal duty ana the subject m £ choice , the resuit of conviction , consequently incumbent on adults only , they being exclusively moral agents , and that it should be administered by immersion . This conviction he car *» ried into efTect , and joined himself to the General Baptist Church at Fromc .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/49/
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