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characterized for great justness of thought * and for an accurate display of the rules < rf human duty , expressed always id a forcible and
neat , atM frequently in a very animated manner : in proof of which we should be glad to lay before our readers a vaiiety of extracts , if the linjits of our own work would allow it . We shall content
oufi « tves % ith giving an example a * two © f 1 he ^ Do ctor ' s method of h £ ttdllft | j his subject . In bis sermon on " The Practical Ijifluence of the Resurrection of
Chrkt ;* from the words " Because I live , tie shall live $ lso . " after an admirably impressive introduction , he ofe ^ ervea that the words of the text imply nm only th $ future triumph of tile disciples , to whom they were addreased , over death , and their
felicity in a future world , but the resolution Arid activity with which , id Consequence ttf the resurrection ctf their master , they would been . abled to- propagate his religion , and serve the best interests ot
mankind , and the glorious success that would crown their patience and labour . And he asks , . if any one can consider the surprizing change that was produced itrlhe temper and conduct of our Lord ' s first
disciples , without denying a strong presumptive pr , oof that be was really raised from the dead , at the time and ind tjie manner which he had predicted ? No other principle' eatt account for a change so sudden and so signal . Before his
death , they were timid , dejected and desrppnding : when he was apprehended and condemned and led out \ o crucifixion , they were seen dissembling , or denying , or afraid of avowing their connection with Mai : and when they saw him dead
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i on the cross , their society wasrdSs * solved and they retired from the scene in grief arid despair . B * it in a few days , these same persons rally , re-unite , and seerti to be divested of all former passions and feelings- to account for this the preacher s&Vs ^
Nothing could have united them f ttO * thing could have inspired them with the resolution and intrepidity , whicfHthey to signally manifested ^ nothing could have supported their patience , encouraged their perseverance , and secured their success ^ but the resurrection of Christ from ttOS
dead > and those powers which he imparted to them as an evidence and confirrna * tion of the truth of this fact . Because he lived , they lived also . Conscious of his restoration to life : deriving
supernatural influence from huh , and aniTtatM& by the hope of finally sharing ith him in his triumph over death and the graV £ r the fearful became valiant ^ the ; weaJt became strong , and the gospel approved itself the power of God to the salvatiOB of them who believed /^
"Vol . 'l . p . 101 * ^ We have observed that Bti Rees does not enter into coritrovefsial points of doctrine ; tBere i ^ however , in this sermon , p . 10 9 ^ a passage thai seems to holdmu ^ h stronger language with regard to
the common opinion of thefatoite * ment , than we could have expect * ed . Speaking of Christy he says ^ " His death was a eacrijfice of propitiation for t / he sins of men /* £$ < : ? We are aware , from wfrat followsk that the whole passage may be in * terpreted in a more general aens ^
than that Which a certain cla ? s of persons will attach . to it . Th ^ f will construe the paragrafrir ifr such a way as to shew the auth < fir is in union with them in renderiipqf the Almighty an inexorable beirag , who requires an atonement to b ^ made before be can pardon theofc . fences of the humaa race : a d « -
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Ae ^ tetp ] — Dr . Ree s ' * Sermon * . , 4 B 8
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/41/
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