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former be < : 6 mes its ally and expositor * Though the false friends and mistaken adherents of Reason and Revelation , have long endeavoured to create animosity between
thpiujf and set them in opposition to each other , to the great injury of the interests of both , yet they have remained harmonious , amid all the broils of their professed devotees , nor has the slightest discord ever subsisted between
them . Those who would set them at s , variance are manifestly the enemies of both ; for they , are mutually dependant ^ and their respective interests are best promoted by being combined . As lievelation without Reason would
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My Christian Fnends , I have already pointed out to your attention several important ends , which the ordinance we are now met to celebrate , is calculated to answer . It will be my present object and aim to deduce an argument in favour of the charac-(—7 i ter and claims of Jesus , from the
consideration of that serenity of mind whicja appeared in I ) is language anVl jmariner , when in the course of his ministry , he found occasion to speak of his approaching sufferings amj death , and when , at the last interview lie
had with his disciples previously to his crucifixion , he' instituted his supper with the express design of keeping up a remembrance of
himself among them , after his departure . That he several times jprcjdicted hi £ own death , and -mentioned various antecedent and concomitant circuirfstances ; which
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be useless , so Rcasdn without the aid of Revelation would be in total darkness respecting all the objects which lie beyond'the regions of mortality . Reason discovers the being of God ; Revelation makes known his character .
designs , mind and wuL These two are destined to attain the empire of the world ; but it is only by their united exertions they can conquer their xleaclly foes , . ignorance , error , superstition and vice , and make mankind free and hap * py . They must conquer and reign jointly or not at all- Saccess to the cause of Reason and Revelation ! W-
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nuist have had a tendency to excite the strongest dread of thts
event , and yet did this without ; exhibiting symptoms of the exist * ence of violent emotions of mind } or a consciousness of guilt , tl * c authentic memoirs of his lite sufficiently prove . To announce at all to his followers or any other of his countrymen ^ who evidently expected in the person of their Messiah , a national cielm rer an < 4
a vicrorious leader , that a most ignominious and painful deatU awaited hinij must have appeared to them like a renunciation of the very character , which lie at the same time wished to maintain ,
and . have tended as much as or perhaps more than , any thing else , to make th * m suspect him to be 9 , deceiver , and to dash at once , all the pleasing expectation ^ they could indulge froip attaching themselves to him cir to ki *
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An Address at the Lord * s Supper , by Mr . JBretlcuid , of Exeter * \* 2 f
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AN ADDRESS AT TUB LORD ' S SUPPER , £ Y MR , 8 RETLANO , OF EXETElt ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/7/
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