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that he had shewn , in preferring their nation to all the nations of the earth . This justice will appear injustice in
ling the blood of the victim ; and , la short , injustice and cruelty will appear inconsistently tmited in this circumstance , " that mankind could not ha * ve been redeemed * if the 'Veil ' s had received , instead * f crucifying the JMessin / j ; and yet that tbdtf . tvert rejected then . and -hwue bee ? i fiunishety e * ver since , for not receiving s and for cruci- - \ fying him . '*
all the circumstances of the fail , and in the redemption of man , by the propitiatory sacrifice of an innocent per-» on . This goodness will appear cruelty when it is considered that the propitiation was made by tormenting and spil-
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ON THE DISCIPLINE OF A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY . LETTER II *
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To the Editor of the Moiithly Repository .
SIR , In my last I supposed ^ that several persons born and educated in those sects in England , which worship three persons as God , had
been converted to the faith as taught by Jesus Christ and his apostles , and had determined to worship only one God the God and Father of our Saviour , They had also determined to follow the
scriptures only as their guide ; and no longer to be bound by those traditions , which had been set up by fallible men , and which are appealed to by the teachers of the different sects , as of equal if not paramount authority with the words of revelation . In
consequence of this determination the bible is before them , not as a subject of endless discussion , but as containing simple plain rules , evident to the well-intentioned mind and to be implicitly obeyed
without deviation , in every instance to which the rule is applicable . it a rule is not plainly applicable , I mean , if the application is not obvious to a man of a very ordinary capacity , it cannot be pressed into the service ; for our
Saviour ' s yoke is easy and his burden is light : his religion is made not for philosophers and learned men , but for the great bulk of mankind
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and perhaps it will be found thai all the evils by which Christianity has been oppressed , are owing to philosophers and the learned . To
get rid of their sophisms and their frauds is now a very difficult task : the mind , entangled in the net of controversy , struggles to be free ; but its very struggles frequently render its escape impossible *
Our Christians then informing their society , will naturally look first to the words of their master , to see whether he has given any directions upon this head . They do not find any positive rule laid
down by him , but they find a direction to keep them from error in a very material point . "Be ye not called Rabbi , for one is your master even Christ . '' "The gentiles exorcise dominion over ona
another ; but it shall not be so among you : but he that woulcj be the greatest , let him do the part of the least . " And that his
disciples might understand his precepts ., he , their master , did the most menial office fov them , and thus taught them with what dispositions they ought to be affected one towards another . Hence in
this Christian society , it is evident , that no individual can arrogate to himself any dominion pre-eminence , authority , or ju-
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On the discipline of a Christian Community , Letter II . 8 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/29/
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