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obligation , viz ; to do justly , to love mercy , and ' to walk humbly before God , I fear a long period will elapse before these will really become the maxims oh which the rulers of nations will govern their actions .
In my remarks on the Epistle for 1811 ( p . 716 of voK vi . ) 1 no . ticed two singular instances of ambiguity in the use of the possessive pronoun if his , " by one of which the ** death ** of God is spoken of instead of the death of Christ ; in
the other the duty of worshipping God , is recoramended , as an " acknowledgment of our dependence *' on the " power" of Christ . Such mistakes as these , tending to confound the most important scri p * tural distinctions , cannot be too
carefully guarded against , and require to be pointed out whenever they are fallen into . The Epistle of the present year begins with an ambiguous expression 44 Being permitted at the
present time to investigate the state of our religious society ;** but whether it means by the favour of God , or by the indulgence of a tolerant government , does not ap . pear . " If the former it should , I think have been so stated , if it was
deemed necessary to announce so self-evident a truth . i 4 For in hifki we liye and move and have our being /* The natural reference of the
passage as it stands , seems rather to the government , and if so , to ififtmate either some recent inter * rUtition to their meeting as usual , ok * an apprehensibn of spefk art e ^ eall N * Ubej of which coM d * I think , b £ intended . How much
Better arid more simple would it hav ^ beeu to say , Being met to ftWaitigfettf , &c . ^ Tht plmgraph
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goes on excellently in ascribe ing the origiii * of * that love" of which they partook together , to 44 the boundless mercy of &a 4 through Christ out Holy Redeemer , through Aim who died for u *> , and who ever Iroetk to make intrrct&m
sionjor us . " This is sound , scri ptural , ; and strictly accordant to the standing , and almost uniform , language of their ancestors , in religious profession . What is it this passage' asserts or necessarily im . plies ? _'
1 st . That the love of God to man his rational offspring " takes its origin in his own " boundless mercy . * ' Ot that he is essentially merciful in and of himself , and is not rendered placable and forgiving by another . 2 nd . That under the Christian
dispensation this original love and boundless mercy of God is communicated to mankind 4 < through Christ our holy Redeemer . " 3 dly . That these benefits flow .
ing from the unbought mercy and goodness of God , vtfefe conveyed to us through a being capable « f dying , which cannot truly beftf . firmed of God , but through him
who died for us , " that is , " Christ our holy Redeemer . " 4 thly , That this same being Ci Who died for » s , ever Kv ^ th to make intercession for us / The
Epistle says' nothing respecting the true scriptural Mm ^ -ftf w term translated intercession , but it seems to m ^ they cannot ha *« understood it as explained by tb « Calvinists , 6 n whatever g ^ oUn ds *^
declaration rests , wHh Which th * y conclude the subject of the " bbuiiatesi ^ Msrcy c ^ Ood ^ Ttoy say " we hube fmmd M $ \ vt * M extend to y < m Mt Ikrethtm ^ ^^ mi ^ fimmm ^ Ate $ , * +
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614 Remarks on the Qua £ er $ ** fre& > ly Epistle *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1812, page 612, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1753/page/16/
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