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pecMli ^ r to the Valleys . He i nvited me to accompany him to one of the quarters , vthexe , he m& 9 they assembled in a stable , for want of an apartment pf sufficient size , find that from the crowd and warmth he was ooliged to take off his wqt . The Moderator of the Vaudois Church , or , as Mr . Gilly takes pleasure in calling him , their " Archbishop , " preaching in a stable in sleeves , but not of fine lawn /
My ^ health not permitting me to accept of this invitation , I was glad to avail myself of another opportunity of hearing him , where I did not expect the place would be so confined , in the village of La Tour itself . Here I found hiin addressing the quarter , not in a stable , but in a large woocj-hou . se , or cellar . He was explaining the nature and design of our redemption through Christ . He observed , that mankind had a general Relief of the necessity of some kind of sacrifice for sin : hence all those
bloody expiations by which the Heathen sought to appease the wrath of their gods , Sacrifices abounded in the Jewish ritual ; but they were misunderstood and abused ; and God was continually complaining by the mouth of his ancient prophets of the mistaken confidence which the people placed in the virtue of sacrifices for sin ; and that , while they multiplied sacrifices , t ^ ey neglected to obey commands , which was better than any sacrifice they could offer him . Under the Christian dispensation v our High Priest
once offered up himself , that there might be no more need of sacrifice for sin ; " thus shewing , as an English writer observes , " said M . Bert , " bow dear his children were to our heavenly Father ; for even the angels were never the objects of redemption ; ' but we are redeemed , ' as the apostle says , ' by the precious blood of Christ , as of a lamb without spot and without blenaisrj . ' We are redeemed from sin and iniquity to do good works , to le ^ d us to perform which is the grand design of the death of Christ , without which he died for us in vain * He offered himself a sacrifice , leaving us an
ex ^ njple that we should follow his steps—that we should sacrifice our hearts to God , and be ready to sacrifice our lives too , in imitation of his example , whenever it should be necessary to preserve our faith and keep a good conscience , We are called upon still to offer the sacrifice of ourselves to God by o bedience to his commands , following the steps of our divine Master , who became obedient unto death . " The latter part of M . Bert's address
explained the meaning of a favourite phrase which I heard several times in his prayers and discourses in speaking of the death of Christ , that he died , leaving us an example that we should follow his steps . He said nothing which , implied that he regarded the death of our Saviour as being , strictly speaking , an equivalent paid to the Father for the debt of moral obedience clue to him from his creatures ; nor did he describe and distinguish the offices
of t # e three persons of the Trinity in the work of redemption ; nor did he paint in glowing colours the wrath of an angry Deity , which nothing but bjopd could appease ; nor , in short , did he employ any language in which all Christians could not agree , inasmuch as it adhered closel y to the sentiments an 4 language of those Scriptures which all receive as divine . A few days afterwards , I attended another of these pleasing unions of the
pastor witji B , portion of his flock separated from the rest , that he might apply h j inis ^ Jf % o thei r peculiar wants , and adapt his exhortations to their peculiar qrcuinstances . In this instance the quarter ; was a hamlet , a short distance from $ \ e village , and a part of which is mountainous . Most of the persons present ; y ? ere engaged in agricultural or pastoral labour , and , with his usual judgmgat * the pastor ' s address was specially adapted to their employments * The main topic of the . address was the duty and means of cultivating a piou »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 567, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/15/
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