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40 . Divilie government and providence . 41 . The power of man to do the will of God . 42 . Sacrifices . Plan . Exordium . The antiquity , universality and great stress laid on sacrifices .
I . Three leading errors respecting tliein . 1 . Their being * thought necessary and efficacious to placate the Deity . 2 . Their heing thought a price or an equivalent for divine favours . 3 . Their 13 fe 1 r » g regarded as a substitute for moral virtue and personal
righteousness . II . The probable origin and real design o £ sacrifices . 1 . Gifts presented as an expression of gratitude , dependence and subjection ; and the acceptance of them a token of approbation and favour . 2 . The seal and . confirmation of a covenant .
III . The sacrifices persons are still re--quired to offer . 1 . The sinner that of a broken and contrite spirit . 2 . The Christian the sacrifice o ( praise continually . 3 . That of benevolent actions .
. 4 . Ourselves , as living sacrifices , holy and acceptable to God , 43 . The leading design of John ' s gospel , to prove that Jesus is the Messiah , and that weiiave life through his name . 44 . Christ and God one . A discourse on three texts , viz . " My Father is greater than I " u I and the Father are one .
" That they all may be one , even as we are one . " 45 . Original si a . 46 . The first principles of all true religion . Pj . an . —I . On the use of reason in matters
of religion . II . Leading principles stated . 1 . Faith in God and the grounds of it . 2 . The unity of God and the arguments in support of it , from reason and revelation . 3 . That God is the Father of all . HI . Practical inferences arising from the
subject . 47 . Doing" justly , loving mercy , and talking humbly with God , the whole of what he requires of man . 48 . The happiness of the obedient , or the reward of keeping" God ' s
commandments . 49 . All the kindreds of the earth to be blessed in the seed of Abram . 50 . The apostolic benediction , " The grace of our I ^ ord Je&us Christ be with
you all . " I have given the above list that the Committee may know to what subjects their Missionary endeavoured to engage the attention of his hearers . Those which re the most leading vrere usually fixed on
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for places where the Unitarian ( Wt- ; was not previously received . On a nUtn ber of the subjects I was requested t preach . I have given a few specimens of the plan adopted in preaching on pariicu lar subjects . I wish , as far as possible to acquaint the Committee with what I d ' aad the manner of doing it . With best respects to those gentlemen , rejoicing with them in the success of their plans I remain , your fellow-servant , R . W '
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360 Intelligence . — Mr . Wright ' s Missionary Tvur .
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The Unitarian Society for promoting Knowledge and Virtue ^ by the Distru billion of Books . The twenty-fourth Anniversary of this this Society was liolden on Thursday the
13 th of April , at the London Tavern , Bi . shopsgate Street . Previously to this , in the forenoon , the Society met at Essex-Street Chapel , where an admirable sermon was delivered by the Rev . Robert Aspland on the Power and Progress of truth , of which we have no need to g-ive an account , as it will , at the unanimous desire of the
Society , be beiore the public in a few days . More than sixty persons dined together ; the Chairman , Mr . Gibson , after the health of his Majesty had been given ( to whose situation and good wishes " that every subject should be able to' read his Bible , " he made some appropriate allusions ) , detailed
m a very neat speech the objects of the Society , and the advantages whict had accrued to the propagation of true and unadulterated religion by its establishment . It appeared that since the formation of this Society , in 1791 , that societies of the same kind had been instituted in the West , at
Bristol and Plymouth ; in the South at Portsmouth ; in the North m Derbyshire ? and at Newcastle ; in the East at Norwich ; and in the midland counties , of which the centre was Warwickshire , all of which were in the most flourishing- circumstances ; and the same was equally applicable to some similar institutions in
Scotland and Wales . On this day , and in the course of the present year , a number of persona had become members of the Unitarian Society , which , by the liberality of its forme * members , had been enabled to reprint and circulate , independently of works avowedly intended to promote the strict sentiments o
the unity of God 5 others of a more general natu re , which hac ( been long out of PllIl f ' and which , though of great importance ^ the religious world , were not likety to d republished . Such are the work s 0 w late Rev . Hugh Farmer , on « ^ , } on « " The Demoniacs mentioned in » , - New Testament , ' \ and " On Cbritt ' Temptation i » the Wilderness 5 ' ah £ ' is the admirable volume of ^ ^ T rf . Hayites * on the Attributes of' Wi « printed first under the ware of m
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/60/
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