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^ ON DIGNITY OF CHARACTER.
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AwtiDST all the frailty , inconsistenc ^ . ^^ i ^ C ^ j ^ nera ifei ^ ig . , Q 3 f ^ ignity of chara 6 j : e& 0 t the dignity of humau mature we do not now speak ; that eoriiSeS from the hand of God , invested with the % iTOaeurfoMeh ^ ^ jiole creation , incapable of de ^ ada&dh , atid ( iM ^ deptible of ' ' ^ ttgf-f . Tit ' . w ^ called for th out of nothing , endowed witfy irresistible en ^ ipie ^ a n 3 graced by tMTSl ^ Sfl ^ ^ f its Mafcef ; an $ ! sec urq ;^ n its immortality , was senfr ; fbrtfo conquering an $ to conquer , armed with a divine commission to wirestte with (
and Averpjome . the powers of Sin , Death s and Time . It is hoi * fo ¥ \ isto : tf 0-scribeihe majesly of this favoured child 6 f God ; a ^ majesty top' % a ^\ r \ gjoi our w ^ k ^^ o ^^ tdo capadoas for our limited conceptions ., It is not for us to defiti ^ aife that bf which , ami ^ t the clouds and darkness of this world , we can catc | i qnjy iiFaimt andimperfect glimpses , and which is reserved to be one of tferno ^ t stupendous revelations ' of the future-world . ' Wheri we stand oti the threshold of heaven , strengthened to gaze on its glories atid listen to its harmoni cs , we ^ all , for the first time , comprehend the greatness of human rt ^ r ^ V ^ tiS afi ^ quately rejoice in its destination , —a greatness superior to our
preset C 9 Jiceptions of the glory of an archangel;—a destination more blisg-Ful thftu we can now imagine the benevolence of God himself to hdve kppointed . * .. {¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ' - ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ '• " . , ''» ' - . ¦] fl But * tb $ L dignity of human character is not too high a theme for man . It is onl ^ # 6 $ i * tfe ^ gelation which men bear to one another that the perdeptidri of this quality is obtained . In the sight of man alone , is there such a thing as positive . dignity of human character ? To the view of the Divine Being , the of his creatures evident
weakness , the perverseness , the guilt are so , they fall so far short of the standard of moral greatness which he has set up for them , and sq infinitely below the holiness of his nature , that if there beany perception of difference , it can be onl y of a few of the very low ^ sifdegrfe ^ s ' of comparative littleness . It can onl y be that'bn& man is a little above another in the scale of moral greatness ; it cannot be that any are positively gfreai . In proportion to the advances that one man has made over another , is the difference between their perceptions of dignity . He whose moral progress is scarcely begun , is but little * conscious of the greatness of human nature ; more
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NOVEMBER , 1827 .
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VOL . I . 3 F
^ On Dignity Of Character.
^ ON DIGNITY OF CHARACTER .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/1/
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