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thing of a-very different nature . For there is no medium between the figurative and uufigurative meaning of buying and setting . The "two ways of understanding these terms are essentially different , in the very nature of things . We must have been bought
either in the strict literal , or in a figurative and accommodated sense . Let no man therefore deceive himself in understanding these expressions in some dark , ambiguous , undefined sense , which in fact means nothing ; and let him not build on the acceptation of words thus dark and
unascertained a doctrine irreconcileable with the genius of Christianity . What was the grand design of the gloriotcs gospel of the grace of God ? To teach us * that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts , we should live soberly , righteously and godly in this present world : ^ -4 hat they who have believed in God should be careful to 1
maintain good works . ' What did Jesus Christ redeem believers from ? " From all iniquity" to be " zealous unto good works "—from the previously vain conversation of the world , from the power of sin , from their evil habits . What did he purchase for them ? The means of moral
reformation through the gospel , with the favour of God as a necessary consequence . 1 Pet . ii . 9 . Christians are 46 a peculiar [ margin , purchased ] people , to shew forth thfe praises of him who called them out of darkness into marvellous light . "
How astonishing is it , that ages of ignorance and barbarism should have so far tarnished the glory of Christianity , that men , instead of understanding its obvious and plain principles , should be irretrievably
bewildered by the occasional use of a f £ w phrases ' adapted to the notions of those who had '" been brought up under the old dispensation ! What can the most metaphorical of those expressions mean—that w * e are washed white hi
the Hood of the lamb—but that the new moral dispensation introduced by that innocent person , whose testimony was sealed with'his blood , has been the means of freeing all who have truly received it from their moral pollution and sinfulness ? How long will the New Testament be read in vain ? When will its words be understood
Jn the sense and meaning in which they were originally delivered ?
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Proclamation against the Bible Society . 741
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Hackney ; Nov . % 3 , 1815 . Sir , IF you think the following notice explaining why a late Bible Meeting was not to be held in a church but in a chapel , is worth preserving
in your pages , as a specimen of the genuine spirit in which the circulation of the Scriptures without the Prayer Book , has been recently opposed by a beneficed clergyman of the Established Church in this neighbourhood , it is at your service . The Rector ' s letter was sent to Mr . 1
Bragg , «« the churchwarden , ' late on Monday night , the 13 th inst ., and the " adjourned" Bible Meeting , which was large and respectable , was held on Tuesday , the 14 tb , Mr . Byng the member fir the county * in the chair .
Whether the frequent repetition of the Athanasian Creed , with its damnatory clauses , which are required by law to " be sung or said at morning prayer , instead of the Apostles * Creed , " no less than thirteen times in
the year , on certain festivals and Saints' days , " by the minister and people standing" and the reverend gentleman ' s inability to find anything like it in the scriptures , excited hi& vindictive zeal against those who promoted the circulation of the latter
without the former , or from what other cause such zeal may have arisen , is not for me to determine . But I can * not help thinking , that the periodical profession of such a creed has a natural tendency to beget an uncharitable
and intolerant disposition of mind , or , what is alike to be lamented , a total disregard to all religion , but that of the state , and an equal zeal to defend that , whether . it be true or false . I am , your constant reader .
PHILEMON . " ST . MATTHEW " , IBETHNiiL 'GREEN * " The Rector of this jParisfi , claiming his right of opposing the circulation of the Holy Scriptures amongst his parishioners , sent , late last night , ( the 12 th of Nov , 1815 ) the following letter to the churchwarden :
" c opy : * Rectory House , Nov . 13 , 1815 . " < Sir , " * As the church is my freehold * and is consecrated for the celebration of divine worship alone 9 I cannot but call to mind , with merited indignation and abhorrence , the conduct of those parish officers who , shrinking
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1815, page 741, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1767/page/13/
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