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our Lord ' s inculcating brotherly love with so much solemnity and earnestness . Jesus foresaw the persecutions which his disciples were soon to encounter : he knew , moreover , that if they were not closely united to each other in the bonds of mutual affection
they would be destitute of a powerful motive to courage and perseverance in the profession of Christianity . No great stress , we humbly think , should be placed on the fact of our Saviour ' s not commencing ( in Dr . M ' s . language ) this part of the discourse recorded , in John xiii . till after Judas had
withdrawn . It is true , the false apostle , the Iscariot * ( so the Professor quaintly and somewhat improperly styles him ) , was an utter stranger to the virtue of benevolence . Yet from ver . 12—' 18 , we learn that , Christ had just been inculcating , very significantly , one of
the qualities of evangelical loveera this discip le s p res en ce . The Margaret "Professor ( 15 ) is " thoroughly convinced that the Articles of the Church of England are in all respects conformable with scripture- ' * If this were not his conviction , he would , no doubt ,
resign his preferment , and no longer hope for stations yet more eminent and profitable . But we are extremely desirous of seeing an exposition of the articles from his pen . And to this undertaking we would invite him , after he shall have completed his annotations on Michaelis ' s Introduction to the Books of the New
Testament . Why will he not gratify and instruct us by finishing these the most valuable of his labours ; labours in which he appears like a Cotes commenting on a Newton ? Dr . Marsh ' s abundant use of italics
is nn injurious and disagreeable singularity : they recur so often as to defeat the very end for which they are introduced ; and we imagine that iris printer and his readers would congratulate themselves were the Professor less partial to such marks of emphasis . N .
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Unitarian Fund . By Thomas Mad ** 12 mo . pp . 60 , is . Hunter anri Eaton . uu OF this animated and eloquent sermon a faithful character was given in our report of the Unitarian fund Anniversary , p . 322 . We shall select a few passages for the gratifi cation of our readers .
The text is Mat . xi . 5 . And the poor have the gospel preached to them , The following is the introduction -. J . " One of the most striking- features in the character of Christ as a public teacher is the eon « tfant attention which he paid to the poor , his provision for their wants
and the adaptation of his instructions t <> their capacities . This circumstance seems not to "have escaped the observation of the Evangelists , as appears . from the connex - ion in which the words of my texkstaiid . That J-esus Christ preached the g-ospel to the poor , is numbered among-the mightiest
of his works \ among * those signs and wonders which announced him to be a prophet of the Most High . " The blind receive their sight and the larne walk , the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear , die dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them . " In the Pagan system ? of theology there were the initiated and the
uninitiated \ there was one set of doctrines for the learned and another for the unlearned ; and that which philosophers and teachers were accustomed to ridicule and explode in the company of their select disciples , they respected and defended in the presence of the multitude . But it was not » o with Jesus Ch rist . He had but one
school , and in that school were collected together ricli and poor , literate and illiterate , bond and free . He came professedly to open the eyes of tke blind , to exalt the intellectual and moral character of his poorer brethren , to tear down the veil which excluded from their minds the liglit
of truth , and to assert for all the rational creatures of God the capability and tie rig'ht of knowing who it was that made them , of understanding their duty , and of worshiping their Creator in the heautjV " holiness . He had no mysteries to promufw or rather he unravelled all mystery . ^ W had no secrets to impart only to a select few—what he communicated in the car
. he was ready to proclaim on the housetop . The truths which he delivered res ] pected the glory of God and the good ot man ; they were concerning all ana to * all : conscious of the hiffh mission « ltfl
which he was charged , he resp ected n the persons of men , that consideration ' ^ sunk in the superior estimation n \ wiic lie reg-arded them as sons of God and hei- ^ of immortality . How opposite this to conduct of the boasted wise ones ot
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440 Review . —Madge ' s Unitarian Fund Sermon .
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"iCTiTT—i Art . II . —A Vindication of the Principle and Objects of the Unitarian Fund * A Sermon , preached at the Unitarian Chapel in Artillery-Lane , London , on Wednesday , May 17 th , 1815 , before the Supporter sof the
* i . e . of Ccenioth or Keriotb , Josh , xv , 25 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/40/
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