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tiaras . Sabbaths and LorcCs-days are there mentioned as if they were convertible terms ; whereas no terms in theology can be more distinct . The Sabbath , however it originated , was become , at the advent of Christ , exclusively Jewish . On that day , by divine direction , all business was
rigorously prohibited , though not innocent amusement , as has beeri often , erroneously , supposed . Respecting the occupation of the LorcT . s day , there is no trace of any prohibition in the New Testament , nor can
it be there discovered , that Christians are commanded , though they have been generally agreed , to meet specially on that day for public worship and instruction ; a custom , the religious expedience of which 1 am not inclined for a moment to dispute .
Should R . F . be a Calvinist he may be disposed peculiarly to respect the opinions of Calvin . In the lnstitutio ( L , ii . C . viii . S . 32—34 ) , he will find a view of this subject very differentfrom that of the English and Scotch Puritans or ihe modern British Calvinists .
A learned writer of the latter class , Dr .-J . P . Smith , in his " Scripture Testimony to the Messiah , " ( I . 81 , ) censures Mr . Belsham ' s well-supported declaration , that •* any employment , or any amusement , which is
lawful on other days , is lawful on the Sunday / ' Not that Mr . Belsham , or those who agree with him , would forget Paul ' s distinction between the lawful and the expedient , or slight his counsel , not to suffer their good to be evil spoken o £
The 3 earned writer endeavours , at the page I have quoted , to prejudice his readers against Unitarians , by representing those who imbibe * the spirit of Unitarianisui , " as disposed to neglect a " sarred obligation . ' He had also examined the lnstitutio
so accurately as to decide ( p . 78 , note ) f that " Dr . Priestley ' s Institutes , considered with a view to its practical bearings only , forms a melancholy contrast to Calvin ' s great work . " He could not then have been ignorant ,
from several passages in that work , of what it was beside his purpose to acknowledge , that wo two Christian writers , though in such different ages and so widely separated on other points , had treated the question of
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the holiness of Sunday more alike , than Calvin and Mr . Bel sham . The learned author of the Scripture Testimony , probably knew also from Owenf as quoted by Mather , in Elliots Life , ( Ed , 3 , p . 29 , ) that there were in £ he
seventeenth century «* sundry divines of the United Provinces , not charged with any heresy , who tailed " the doctrine of the Sabbath , Fiymentum Anglicanum" It is , however , too much to expect that Dr . J . P ; Smith
or any other learned Calvinist will hastily incur the odium of denouncing Calvin , hs what his Judaizing , or rather Ultra-Judaizing followers in Great Britain , call a Sabbath-breaker . Should this representation of
Cal-• * . « -mm » - » . . " - > vin ' s anti-sabbatical notions be dis » puted , I am not destitute of authorities in its support . DOMINICUS . ^^¦ Mrfftkc ^^ b . ¦ ¦
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On a Passage in Tyermatfs Essays . 425
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—^^ mn ^^^^ ' —~ Sm , 1 BEG leave to call the attention of your readers to the following extraordinary position contained in a
work , entitled " Essays on the Wisdom of God , " recently published by the Rev . Daniel Tyerman , a minister of the Independent , denomination of Dissenters , residing at Newport , Isle ofWight .
* ' The difficulty of meeting the claims of the moral government of God forms another obstacle to the salvation of man . As this government must be in all respects perfect , its claims must be honoured , with
respect to man , before his salvation can be possible . Though by the fall , man has lost his ability to meet the claims of this moral government , yet he is still a subject of it , and is under the same obligations as ever to act agreeably to its laws , for a loss of power to obey , by no means infers an exemption
from obligation . Man is still within the sphere of this government , and God still demands a perfection of obedience , and threatens him with an eternity of punishment in case of non-compliance " If this be justice , how falsely has the memory of ait ancient potentate been calumniated , his name made a
by-word and a reproach , and his conduct handed down to distant posterity as the model of injustice and oppression i Pharaoh , it is true , . required thf ; Israelites to produce "the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/25/
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