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Christ ' s kingdom and power , appears io me to be founded In truth , to be impressed upon the convictions of the proud , it must operate with much
greater force in commanding their reason and subduing their passions , than any general denunciations of eternal misery or eternal death to an indiscriminate body of men , denominated the wicked .
As I am convinced that many passages in the New Testament , which have been applied to sinners subsequent to their resurrection , in reality relate to events under the Christian dispensation prior to that epoch , I propose in another letter , with your indulgence , to give my sentiments on such passages . E . S »
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utility principally , but I hesitate whe * ther we can say wholly . In his Dissertation on the Fourth Commandment , to which Dominions refers , he uses expressions which seem to me incompatible with that opinion . After
he has laid down three reasons for the precept , and has observed that the first of them , the prefiguring of a spiritual rest , was fulfilled and abolished by the gospel , he goes on to say : " But , since the two latter
reasons ought not to be reckoned among the typical representations of the old dispensation , and are equally . suitable to all ages ; though the Sabbath be now abrogated , the practice is still kept up among us of assembling to-1
gether on the appointed ^ Jays , * [ the whole connexion shews that he means the Lord ' s-day , ] " for hearing the word , the celebration of the Lord ' s Supper , and public prayer ; and also a cessation from labour is given to our servants and workmen . If the same
necessity he upon us , for the relief of which God enjoined the Sabbath on the Jews , let no one pretend that it has no reference to us . Our Taiost wise and condescending Father has been pleased to provide for our necessity no less than for that of the Jews .
But , it may be said , Why do we not assemble together every day , so as completely to take away any distinction of days ? Truly I wish that were possible ; and it would certainly be a commendable act of religions wisdom , to appropriate to that purpose a small
portion of every day . But i £ from the infirmity of the generality of men , daily religious assemblies cannot be carried into effect ,- —why should we not comply with the arrangement which we see is enjoined upon us [ nobis impositam ] by tlie will of God ?"
In his Commentary on the Pentateuch , Calvin expresses himself in a manner which justice requires us to regard his conveying his more matured opinion . « ' Assuredly God set apart the seventh day to himself and
consecrated it , on the completion of the creation of the world , to afford his devout worshipers a release fi ; om all other cares , for meditation on the beauty , excellence and splendour of his Works * It is proper , indeed , that we should at no time be inattentive to the consideration of the vriadom
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Homerton , Sir , August 13 , 1819 . IT will not be deemed improper in me to request permission to offer a remark or two on the letter of your Correspondent Dominicus , in the last Number , pp . 4 & 4 , 425 .
The design of one of the passages on which he has animadverted , was to express an opinion which to me seems well-founded ; that , in comparing the Institutes of Calvin with those of Dr . Priestley , there appears , in the former work , a richness and
unction of spirituality and practical piety ; and , in the latter , an opposite character of jejuneness in that respect . Whether this opinion be jugt or not , every one of course must
thiuk for himself : but I do not perceive that it is greatly affected by the fact that , on one great branch of obedience , the French Reformer entertained a sentiment lower than that
which most Christians in our country approve . Had I thought so , I should certainly have had no objection to have made the qualification . I was not ignorant that Calvin ' s sentiment on , the sanctity of the Lord ' s-day was
different from that which appears to nie supported by sufficient evidence . [ Let the reader peruse , if he please , Owen on the Sabbath , or President Edwards ' s Sermons on the Perpetuity and Change of the Sabbath . ] There can be no reasonable doubt that he
considered the religious observance of the first day of the week as a duty , upon the grounds of expedience and
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488 Calvin $ Notion of the SubbatJi .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 488, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/28/
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