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    tfHnfeds 4 te * ti # cuitar I \ m \ r & ? ex feU 4 © Uy hoH an tke DeUy , < r £ ? ep 0 i&ly rising the words , ) without the-&id a £# natural object or moral relation faagv j-osved feessa things of the * wih j and , » erkaps , in miads of the wWsst

    ipowers , id * £ . idea of tbs Re&ty to * J # ^ randeur and excellence , is teas *; of $# rse ^ uraebie from great a&d beautiful iobfeets eubuutted to tie g e ^ fife ? , B tcert&ii&y ( Sterns a \ beautUaei <* Q £ 9 £ &a » Oridoti ^ tt to human imperJexiiou , m 4 j * uist be acknowledged & very , iov ^ lf

    -feature of Christian , tra-th , tfcal a $ . pnfe-&entB a Deity to 113 / under the paroatoi tueiation , nad thus greatly &id $ the -figfenaggling jaoind of man ; at ooce ^ jatr flibtia ^ the understanding ia som ^ moa-« Ma ? e . to- gi ^ ap the oJs ^ ct , and jas-ktag Stdear and iuterestioff by ? touohip ^ the

    sweetest affections of the beart . Mi ^ lxt jw > t , Sir , the Christian vrorsWqp « f Ifce jN ather 'be aided by meaas which seem £ q , be atudioualy rejected by the Rer ^ fornaed Christian Churches , jand por « - -ticularly by Noncons of our 4 enornir aiafcion ^ Would it easeotiaUy yioJUcte

    Ahe l ^ w ^ f pure and sp iritual v ^^ orship -to introduce any uoore feasible media ^ if adoration amongst us ? It appears \ to myself , we aim at a aim pie abstract avojrship which wars with hum ^ n inr tstincts , Qnd a-dmracter of mind in ^ epar xable from the , cirmiimt ; aufces af kuman

    life ; and that we deny our dexotxonm -otttttiments the beneftt of associations twhicji might aid their fervour without ; iiAiring their jpurity . The burst of -aooration auggosted by the blue sky tor green earth is surely correct and igood ; and devotional feeling nevor -more pure and amiable than wheu

    . prompted by tjie winds and the waves , , the woods aud the streaBis , the iVaJl ^ y jand J ; he mounta , iiks , &e . We have onuflic cjnd poetry . in our worabip ; onig-ht nort painting and soulptuire aJfeo assist it ? I suggest ^ his witJU wie-^ iviaigs , aware of the shock of it itp 4 foe severer character pf

    NoncoofwimLty , and the jsknplidity of QutUmtftsrW faith . JBut tuay we -uo . t rbe supjerfltitiously ^ afeaid » of superstilion ? And , rthough the spirit and principle pf r « U-^ pan ni ust ever Ue one and it he g cim ^ , maasmt not its ittodes > and Xomns bje

    ttocoinmodated to the character , of tjbwe ^ agie ^ a » di ever modified ^> y the , prevailling « tandard of intellect and X& $ tejt Jk tvas . anoe rtt « ked , ^ ith r-a iittte ill-^ jMiire perhape ^ A ^ h o dDire r XhoiiftiUt Qf

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    tkp fhfff&s ^ f W ^ rjs ^ i p ^ n ^^ o ^ Mrith $ & § JJ ^ it ^ a ^ § uesj ^ fi ? Biit , Sir , wouW i ) pti o « jir

    acceptably tp cer ^ i ^ ses ^ if wc cti ^ w it o | f pj # r $ frpin th ^ 4 nW fs » of a theological ^ r ^ wment ^ an ^ d brought it | p dps ^ r eoniact wj jji the elegant arts of life ?*

    ? The architecture of aheiNew Gb » pel 9 Fiaalmry , Jttdil iw ^ fitrt ^ it ^ ^ Ufiffff ^ ce jaUber < the £ ^ , o ^ i ( a ii ^« J * b < Mir , the iicwd ^ JtjtfJtiWKm , .. - .. '

    &wt I adi tmespas&mg , ^ ir , and need your indulgencerfor the inconsistency of SbArertmg to the j ^ lsfion of facilitating the su& ^ a ^ Jfei Umtarianism witi / the UigheMjytfpk , when my ot ^ giaal objec ^ JnHHKcp itsult your < M > rreep <) nde !^ l '' item | BWPbest mode of

    obviating the diffleuTOy first alluded t ©^ -naiQeiy , that of 'unlettered naiads to form any < joneeption of the Deity without tf&e aid of personality ; that is , < \ yb&t is usually Oke case , ) without the "hum ail fom of Jesus Ghrkt being suggested to tlie iraaginaiibn . ALB ANUS .

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    r Dr . J . Jones on Gen , iy . 2 ^ . NO pa ^ % e Sn tfhe Avhole range of literature , sacred or profane , is 50 \ yidely mi ^ teii , or the mistake of which has opened 30 wide a d # ar to the influx of superstition a $ the fol-%

    lowing : " Then menbeg ^ n q calr on the name of the \ Lord . Gen . iv . 26 . This is the exact rendering of the origin ^ * fcocordkig to the vowel pokits , and yet it is obviously ut variante with the truth , Adam , 'Eye and their

    children , especially Abel , having from tti £ beginning never ceased tocafl on the name 01 Jjie liprd . Jf ^ ve dis , re ^ ard these pqints ype have the true js ^ nse ; * ' Theu mjen beg ^ p to 6 a : ll themselves by the name of Jehotfata , " ^ at is , they assumed the title and attributes of

    the eternal God , thinking thernsefves immortal pn the earth . This presumption , liowever impious or unreasonable it may now -appear to us , was , in the then circumstances of mankind ,

    jf ^ Ky ^ jtuml- T | i ^» l ( B ^| flag ;|> ^ Kich Mqn # v $ r <\ % t 4 ' chq \\ tq ^ e fchafactor of < Sod , . w * W ^^ mpt ^ pt ^ frpm M&h * Wf 1 (^ s ^ ere ^ Wiere ^ m ^ n ^^^ l ^ M ^ ? thp ^ ytiw Jitfed fiqr ^ g ^ in £ u # vigoi ^ , iwitfatnt , it , is ^ p bft ^ , kewg ' .. wiw

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1823, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1785/page/40/