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good action ? To have ati exalted idea of the glory and majesty of God * is it necessary to believe that He , of his own good will and pleasure , sends millions ofhis creatures into a place , where , through , the countJess age&of eternity , they shall suffer
tortures equal to the fury of a burning fiery furnace ? Will nothing but sighs , groans , and outward gestures , manifest that a Christian has ** the spirit of God , bearing witness with his spir rit that he is a child of God ? " These questions , Sir , you will allow , involve consequences of the utmost magnitude , and are connected with subjects of the last importance * I wish the Unitarians to declare how far they affect their eause . For my own part , I beg leave to add r that I have
oftentimes exercised the ministerial duties , perhaps in some such methods as are recommended by the Unitarian Fund , and yet found no difficulty in earnestly enforcing the peculiar doctrines and privileges of Christianity , without feeling myself under any necessity of paying supreme adoration to any other Beino- than .
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ . I could speak of the blessings of redemption , without even hinting that the death of Christ was to be considered as a vicarious sacrifice . I exposed and reproved the great depravity of mankind , and yet did not insist upon it , that my auditors were necessarily dead to everv principle of divine life * I have found it no hard task
to declare , on the authority of the Scriptures , that without holiness no man shall see the Lord ; " and yet I bare not deemed it needful to add , that every sinner shall suffer the fierceness of the divine wrath , while God himself shall exist , I could speak :
of the comforts of religion , without insisting upon supernatural illuminations , extraordinary visions , or enthusiasticaJ raptures . I could exhort my hearers , in strpng and plain terms , to cease to do evil , and learn to do well , and yet ascribe our final sal- < vation to the mere mercy of God in Christ Jesus . I have insisted upon a true and lively fatih , without asserting that mere faith is the whole duty of man . In short , ihave found it ex-,
trejnely easy to adopt much of the simple , but energetic phra '<~ seology of the Holy Scriptures in my discoijrses , without leadi ng my hearers into the inexplicable mysteries of modern orthodoxy , or the intolerable rant of fanaticism and superstition ; and yet , by the divine blessing , I could produce some living
** ssals to my ministry , " who are carefiy to aqprn the gospel 1 of God , our Saviour , in . all things . Had it been my lot to have possessed a sufficient degree of policy , I might still have passed for an evangelical minister , aad thereby have saved myself from many outward inconveniences . X ° w ' &c - . London ^ May 4 > , 1 S 06 . Joseph Niohtihgale ,
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On Unitarlanisni . 245
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/21/
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