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will prepare us for happiness , both in this world , and in the world to come . " Pp . 290 , 291 . There are some of the Discourses from which we have made no quotations , which we esteem very high ly * and particularly those on the Unity and the Goodness of God .
In reviewing the volume , it has again and again occurred to us , that it will be found exceedingly useful in congregations destitute of ministers , where there is a taste for plain
preaching , and in families , the members of which are engaged in religious inquiry , and are , at the same time , solicitous to cherish in their circle just religious feelings .
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system which , as we think , opposes alike the just philosophy of the mind and the tenor and declarations of the sacred volume . Although pure religion tends to interest the feelings deeply and effectually , it must at the same time be embraced by the
understanding : and while that man reads his Bible to the greatest advantage , who makes the best practical use of it , yet , in order to learn what it really teaches , we must diligently compare it with itself , nor affix to the language of ancient and of Eastern writers ideas
which are exclusively the growth of modern days , of Western climates , and of a corrupt and scholastic Christianit y * This duty , we presume , is only of inferior obligation to the habit of perusing the word of life for purposes expressly devotional and moral . And the cure of those wild and
visionary theories which abound in what is called the religious world , would perhaps be met with in the diffusion of accurate scriptural knowledge among all ranks of the community . A highly seasonable and important service is therefore rendered to the most valuable of all causes by the publication of the discourse before
us . Mr . W , takes his text from Acts iii . 10 : " Repent ye , therefore , and be converted , that your sins may be blotted out . " After offering some
pertinent remarks on the error and the danger of applying such language , < c without any regard to the original import of the terms , or to the peculiarity of the circumstances attending the instances of conversion in the
apostolic age , to subjects and cases perfectly dissimilar /* he enters on an inquiry into the meaning of the phrases conversion , to convert , to be converted , &c , in the New Testament , and , after a critical examination of them , infers that they are almost constantly used
there to denote the relinquishing of Judaism or Heathenism for the faith , and profession of the gospel . He does not indeed deny that such words may in some passages relate to the temper of the heart and the conduct of the life : " but then , ' * says he , * ' we are to consider that this holiness of
heart and life is regarded in the sacred writings as an effect , a consequence , a fruit of faith in the gospel . ' * In this examination of theise terms ,
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Art . II . —The Doctrine of Instantaneous Conversion from Sin to Holiness , a Doctrine unsupported by Scripture . A Sermon preached before the Association of Unitarian Christians , residing at Gainsbro \
Hull , Thome , and adjacent Places , at the Chapel , Bowl-Alley Lane , Hull , on Wednesdaif September SO , 1818 . By the Rev . C Well beloved , of York . Hull , printed by Ross , and sold by Rodford and Co . London , sold by Hunter . 1818 . 8 vo . pp . 50 .
fTpHE learned Dr . Jeremiah Hunt , JL who died in 1744 , " had a strong persuasion that the age succeeding that in . which he lived would be as remarkable for enthusiasm , as his own was for infidelity . ' * * That his prediction has been accomplished , the
present state of religious opinion amply shews . It would not be difficult to trace the leading causes of the ascendancy of this fanatical spirit among our contemporaries . Fully to pursue the investigation , would be little consistent however with the end that we
have now immediately in view : nor should we in any degree have adverted to the subject , were it not that the true remedy or preventive of a mental as of a bodily disease may happen
to ^ be suggested by an acquaintance with its source . The neglect of the application of sound criticism to the stud y of the Scriptures we cannot but consider as one of the principal reasons of the prevalence of a theological lyippis ' s Life of Lardner , xxxv .
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184 Review . — Wellbeloved on Conversion .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/48/
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