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preachers , preach unto yourselves ; and when you have purified yourselves , then will your preaching unto others be pure , even as was the preaching of the Lord Jesus . The conduct of the Established Church towards this body had been forced into their debates . The Established Church had indeed of late taken
great interest in their concerns ; and the numerous couversious it had made , through the outpouring of the glorious Gospel of God , had cast a stigma on them and their labours , as servants of their Divine Master . But there had been no interference , except through motives of personal kindness . More had been done , within the last twenty or twenty-five
years , to make the reformed churches better known to each other , than for centuries before . This body as a church had also become better known , through the labours of their missiouaries in the South of Ireland , and their preachers in England and Scotland ; and the circulation of the Bible had made them all better known to each other , and enabled
Christ ' s children to know each other . They were to be kuown , also , by theirpublie officers . If they had an officer , therefore , who had publicly avowed himself anArian , should they , knowing it , retain him in office ? Now that their eyes were opened , let them separate the wolves from the sheep . Let them divide , and let Lot ' s flock take the right bank of the Jordan , and Abraham ' s the left ; but , in God ' s
name , let them divide their nocks . He wished the clerkship to be held in abeyance ; and he would , next day , propose a measure for the separation of this Synod . He illustrated his arguments by referring to an ambassador at a foreign court , who openly avowed his disloyalty to George IV ., and inquired if this rebel would still be retained aa the king ' s ambassador ? How much more
necessary was it , therefore , to dismiss an ambassador who had openly avowed himself the enemy of their Heavenly King ? He thanked his God he was not of the " thiuking few" who would rob the Lord Jesus of his eternal glory ; and called on the Synod , in the name of God , and of his holy Son , and by all the terrors of the day of judgment , to rouse themselves from their slumber of death , to renew their faculties , and to become " the thinking many . "
Wednesday , June 27 th , 10 o ' clock . Mr . Hogg said , that he wished to explain his reasons for not voting on the present question . Mr . Porter was an upright and honest man ; and though he ( Mr . H . ) was satisfied that these secret Allans should be dragged into the light
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and exposed to the eye of government , yet he would not support a measure which would sacrifice Mr . Porter to atoue for the errors of others . Mr . S . Dill said he should deem himself uuworthy of the character of a preacher of the word of his Divine Master , if he did not stand forward and bear testimony to certaiu doctrines of the Christian religion . Though he felt no desire to tyrannize over the mind of
men—for opinion should be free as the wind—yet great care should be taken of the religious qualifications of the members of that body . Liberality had too long been the watch-word of scepticism ; and he much doubted whether the liberality now contended for , did not partake of that character . He contended , that Calviuism and Arianism could not
both be the doctrine of th « Scriptures ; for the poles could not be more opposite than they were . Therefore , Arians and Calviuists should neither worship in the same temple nor give each other the right hand of fellowship . In fact , they did not worship the same God ; for , if any doctrine were more clearly revealed in the Scriptures than another , it was , that Christ is God . Christ was the cornerstone of their religion ; remove it , and the entire fabric tumbled into rum . Mr . Dill then entered into a lengthened investigation of the scriptural proofs of Christ ' s divinity ; and observed , that Arianism led to the principles of Atheism . ( Order , order . )
Mr . Stewart defended Mr . Dill as being in order ; and Mr . Montgomery trusted that if Mr . Dill were allowed to pursue this train of argument , gentlemen on the opposite side would be grunted a similar privilege . Mr . Dill said , that if these were speculative principles , then he should be sorry to adopt this course ; but so far from being speculative , they were the vital principle from which all religious practice must proceed . The Scriptures placed principle as the very ground-work of practice ; salvation depended on principle , and on the very single principle now under discussion . " He that believeth , shall be saved ; and he that believeth wot , shall be damned . " " If ( said Mr . Dill ) what I have now said have any foundation in the Scriptures , Arians and Calviuists cannot live iu the bond
of fellowship . " He then proceeded to eulogize the labours of the Established Church , in the works of which he saw the outpouring of the Spirit . He also saw something of the same kind kindling in that body . Not long since there was a death-like silence in the South of Ireland ; at present they perceived the
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708 Intelligence . —Synod of Ulster
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page 708, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/76/
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