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his honours with him . Divine revelation presents us with but one object of religious adoration and worship , the Litany with various objects
of address in our prayers , viz . God the Father , God the Son , God the HoJy Ghost , and then all united under the appellation of " the holy , blessed and irlorious Trinity . *
Though 1 do not consider the differences su bsisting among the various classes of Christians , as affecting the essentials to salvation , which depend more upon the sincerity of 1 he heart , the piety and benevolence of the disposition and the holiness of the life ,
than the peculiarities of the creed ; yet surely what respects divine worship must be admitted to be of great importance * This , my dear Madam , is deserving the serious attention cf every professing Christian , who toishes to serve God : agreeably to the rules
prescribed in his word . We should endeavour , by the daily study of the sacred scriptures , ( like the Psalmist , Whose " delight was in the law ef the Lord , and in whose law he meditated day and night , " ) uniting our
earnest prayers for all needful aid , with our diligent and impartial inquiries , to enlighten our minds in the knowledge of his will revealed by Jesus Christ , as well as to follow the dictates of our consciences . Then ,
whatever system of faith and worship we embrace , we shall feel the pleasing consciousness of Christian integrity . We shall adorn and recommend the doctrine we profess , by a suitable life and conduct , and lay a good foundation for the hope of divine acceptance through the inercy of God in Christ Jesus
Now , my dear Madam , adieu . I need not surejy express a wish that you will take what I have written , in good part . Had I not addressed you Fr-eely on this occasion , though 1 trust
with respect aim candour , it would not I think be doing justice to you , to myself , and to 1 he principles i profess . Believe me to bo , though no longer your paster , ) cnvv sincere friend , and a fervent well-wither to
your religious improvement , your present comfort and your future happiness .
N . B . As there is no secret in this letter , you are at liberty to shew it to any one you think proper .
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Sir , Bromley , Oct . 29 , 1815 , AM old enough to have witnessed I the interest excited , among serious persons , by the publication , in 1776 , of Mr . Soanie Jenyns ' s View of the internal Evidence of the Christian
Religion . The author had been suspected of Deism , probably on account of some passages in his Letters on the Nature and Origin of c Evil 9 though in tl e preface to a 4 th edition of that work he had disclaimed the imputation . That suspicion was , however , now revived . The author of the View
was supposed , with what justice I cannot discover , to h * tve insidiousl y caricatured Christianity by representing it as prohibiting w . ° . r under every pretence ; also as excluding from the rank of Christian virtues , Patriotism and Friendship , according' to their common definitions , * It is © ulv with
Mr . Jenyns ' s account of patriotism , which I transcribe , that 1 am concerned at present . " Patriotism also , that celebrated virtue so much practised in ancient , and so much professed in modern
times , that virtue , which so long preserved the liberties of Greece , and exalted Rome to the empire of the world : this celebrated virtue , I say , must also be excluded 5 because it not only falls short of , but directly counteracts the extensive benevolence of
this religion . A Christian is of no country , he is a citizen of the world $ and his neighbours and countrymen are the inhabitants of the remotest regions , whenever their distresses demand his friendly assistance : Christianity commands us to love ail
man-* The following very modern view of the duties of a patriot , I extracted from a public print at the commencement of the late sanguinary contest . The doctrine it teaches has not been always so fairly » - vowed , yet it may be regarded as describing' the practical patriotism of our Chris * tian Courts , Camps and Corporations .
u lament that our own hopes are not so sang-uine as most of our contemporaries ' , but our wishes are equally ardent , though we are not persuaded , to the same degree , of the justice , policy , or necessity of the war . However , it is the duty of every
man , from the moment that his country J * involved in hostilities , Ixe the principle legitimate or unjust , to direct all his efforts , as well as his vows , to promote th # honour and success-of'the national arms . Public Ledger- Monday . June 5 , 18 i § 5 ' .
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CQ % Mr . Rutt on S . Jenyns * notion of Patriotism *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1815, page 692, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1766/page/28/
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