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those who receive this doctrine . No doubt this is true ; but still there will be this difference : . those who are Jed to such an improvement of the death of Christ , by the authority of
the numerous passages which are regarded as teaching the atonement , will consider the death of Christ , in this respect , as a much more important and significant event ; as forming an
integral and necessary part in the plan of redemption : inasmuch as they see it so frequently and expressly pointed out to their notice by God himself , as the way in which they have been saved . Our Lord ' s death is thus invested
with a holy moral meaning , which is nearly lost when it is viewed so much with an historian ' s eye , as a mean of confirming truth or advancing a cause . In this influence of the cross of Christ
on the heart of a Christian , I think we may see the best explanation of the doctrine of the atonement . Lastly , that Unitarians should allow the extravagance of Calvinists to drive them
into an opposite extreme , appears to me lamentable . It is the rejection of this doctrine which makes the great breach between them and the rest of Christians .: it is this which makes
the hearts of other Christians shrink from their communion as a dead and unholy thing : it is this which makes them to be esteemed impious , presumptuous and God-denying , So
thinks the Christian world : for myself I will only say , it is this , possibly , which contributes to shed a chilly influence on their communion , which even they themselves are constrained to acknowledge and lament . T . F . BARHAM .
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ning of this service is most unpromising to la Unitarian ; for though the first words o £ the Creeds I believe in God the Father , are in the margin , they are expanded in the text into , Z believe and confess my Lord God , one in
substance and three in person , Father * Son and Holy Ghost . " There is , however , nothing of this theology in " the Form of Marriage , " ( p . 249 ) . At the close of the service , " the minister cornmendeth them to God , in this or
sueh like sort : < The Lord sanctify and bless you : the Lord pour tho riches of his grace upon you , that ye may please him and live together in holy love to your lives' end . ' 'Then is sung the 128 th Psalm , or some other pertaining to the same purpose /"
These appear to have comprehended all the devotional part of the service . I need scarcely add , that there was no form of wedding with the ring , iior any of the exceptionable language
which the Church of England connects with that ceremony . This Calvin ' s Common Prayer Book was the form used by the English at Geneva , " during their exile in the reign of Mary . At the end of the French Protestant
Testament , published at Charenton , 1668 , I find , among * other public forms , La ManiSre de celebrer le Ma ~ riage . This is in substance the same as the Geneva service . At the end is a short ^ prayer , which , like every reference to the Deity through the whole service , is strictly Unitarian .
I also mentioned at the meeting in January , the very just views of marriage , as a civil contract , entertained by the Short Parliament in 1653 . That legislature has been assailed by the ridicule of almost all political writers , who , probably , were ill-informed of whom it consisted and how
it was employed during they four months of its sitting . I have now before me a collection of their Acts , all attested by " Hen . Scobell , Clerk of the Parliament , " arid * printed by John Field , printer to the Parliament of England , 1655 . " A perusal of these would , 1 think , serve to shew that the ridicule attached to Bdre ~
'bone ' s Parliament , " has been very ill deserved . Praise-God Barbone 9 as he is named in the List prefixed to Scobell , or Barboti , as in the List of Commissioners ,
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, Commonwealth Marriage Act . 357
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r Sir , Clapton , June I , 1819 . TTjWER since I read your Number J 2 j for January last , I have designed to offer you some additions to what occurs [ p . 53 ] respecting that very
important object of attention for the Unitarian Association , a relief from the enforcement of the present Marriage Ceremony . I mentioned at the meeting in January , that " the Ge-1
neva form' was to be found in a collection of papers called the Phcenix . In the . second volume , 1706 , at p . 204 , it appears under the title of " Calvin ' s Common Prayer Book . " The begin-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 357, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/13/
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