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is to be derived from' our love to > Christ ; whereas the New TestamgBt teaches us , that it is our love to God "which deserves that honour . ' * € C The observance of the Sabbath" is the title and subject of the 19 th sermon ( Matt . xii . 8 . " The Son of Man is Lord
even of the Sabbath-day ") . By " the Son of Man" in the text ,. Mr . K . supposes our Lord to mean rfiah in generah- And after many preliminary remarks , he enters on an examination of these four questions : " Is the command which directed the Jews to celebrate the Sabbath obligatory upon Christians ? Have Jesus and his apostles delivered any injunctions on this head ? Why do we observe the Lord ' s-day ? and how ought it to be
employed ? " We are mistaken if most of the author ' s readers will not warmly approve of his answers to these inquiries : they amount to this , that Christianity knows nothing of a sabbath , but that upon principles of expediency , and from veneration for the pattern of the apostles , &c . the Lord * s-day should be set apart for public worship , and spent with devout cheerfulness .
Did this decision of the case reqtire the authority of celebrated names > for its support , those of Spencer , Ogder * , Hallett , Paley , and of many of the first divines would serve to recommend and vindicate it . Of the twentieth sermon , which should have been arranged together with the others on doctrinal subjects , the title is
cc On the Humanity of Christ , " from Acts ii . 22 . " Ye men < € of Israel , hear these words : Jesus of Nazareth , a man ap-Ci proved of God among you" [ or , according to the better rendering of Bishop Pearce ] , " u a in an from God , Manifested " among you , " &c . The author first considers the p tain account here given of Jesus Christ , shews , secondly , how well qualified Christ is , as a man from God , for fulfilling every purpose of his mission , and concludes with three inferences . When Jesus : Christ is called a man , the word means the
same thing as when it is used upon other occasions . Our Lord was distinguished ^ however , fronfe ordinary men by being from Gody i . fr by acting from his immediate orders , or bringing a message from him . In several respects , he was far more highly favoured than former prophets ; and hi& miracles were valid proofs that he was a divine teacher , A man thus commissioned and attested was sufficient for
preaching tli € gospel to the Jews ; and such a prophet they were more likely to receive than one who pretended to be of a nature superior to the human . The resurrection of a man is the best pattern and assurance of the resurrection of other men ; his example , the fittest to be proposed to them . In the character , then , of a man from God , &c . Jesus was amply quali-
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508 Kenrkk'S Sfermofis .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/28/
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