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cc It behoves those who assert that Go 4 never jgave sucjj an order to Mpses as that of \ Jof \ the extirpation of the Canaanites to explain , if they can , how Moses and the Israelites came to embrace such a design , and how it proved successful . The importance of preserving the purity of divine worship is hence evident , "
We shall leave it to the readers of this sermon to determine whether Mr » K . has not given the just solution of the greatest difficulty in the pages of Jewish history . It was with good reason that his hearers requested the publication of these four discourses * in answer to Mr . Painty whose
attack on revelation , however deficient in knowledge and candour , was certainly made in a manner that could sqarbely fail of Being popular f . The subject of the ninth sermon , from Deut , vi , 6 , 7 > ** And tiiese words which I command thee , " &c , is C € the religious instruction of children . " From the considerations that chil « .
dren and young persons are ignorant of the principles of religion ; that these , principles may be communicated to them by instruction ; that to do this will be attended with the happiest effects ; and that to neglect it will be productive of the worst
consequences , Mr . K , argues very abl y and satisfactorily in favour of the practice for which he pleads . In behalf of it he properly appeals , on the oile hand , to the case of the Jews ; on the other , to that of the class of Protestant dissenters
commonly styled Presbyterian ; the former shewing the advantage of early religious instruction ; the latter , the evils arising Frorri the neglect of it ? - —a neglect ^ however , in which he himself had # O concern . €% On giving the Lord ' s supper to children , " is the title of the tenth sermon , from Exod . xii . 26 , 27 . ( " And it sh&ll
come to pass when your children shall say unto you , " &c , ) Mr . K . illustrates the remark , that men who adopt new prin * . ciples do not always follow them to their consequences , or that we are more the creatures of habit than of reflection , by the practice of kneeling at the Lord ' s supper , which is retained in the church of England , and b y a like inconsistency in the conduct of Protestaritrrdissenters in regard to the same > ite ; for it is
although they s ^ y that a plain and simple ordinance , yet they do not encourage children and young persons to partake of it , To shew the propriety of early communion , o \ ir author rnain > r tains that this service } s level to the capacity of children * that a corresponding practice took place ^ by divine direction , among the J ews in regard to $ t sirpil ^ tr institution , ( viz . the passover ) and that the cystoin pf giving the Lord ' s supper to infants # frcf . p . i . + Witness , in particular , his 5 tatcnt < rpt of Htim ^ fajnpus pbiectipn against all , testimony to iniracl ^ ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/42/
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