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•/ £ . I dedftte to you ir the face of heaven and garth , that truth is my only object * and if my reasonings and conclusionaccord with truth , it is to you alone that I am most deeply indebted ; for they are all founded upon those principles formerly adduced by yourself , £ nd declared by you to be incontrovertible . . ; O . I have already said that the doctrines contained in the Holy Scriptures are chiefly matters of faith and not of reason , and that when you trust to your reason , you trust to an esria $ guida . But reason , yea- heaven and earth , may pass away , but one jot or tittle of what God hath saidshail not
pasa away till all be fulftlleeL > fiememberirkK ) , that those things ^ which are impossible ia tbe , estimation of men , are possible ^ with God ; and w if the gospel be hid , it is hid to them that are lost , " ? { v r A . You intimate ^ ther ^ that « \ m ^ j ^ f& f tp y&r > $ i $ w > &f the gospel , otherwise it is at the peril of my perspnal s ^ l ^ ^ v ^^\ ^ n ^ 4 e ^ ion ; may render me a hypocrite , but is » dt calculated ^ tjo inft > rm ^ jn ^ y ^ gipfie ^ . J ; do request ^ then , as the greatest favour ytw ^ can J ^ poiat out the fellacy of iny reasouingS i ^ f > wfei 0 h ^ vapott ^ . iftji feoao ^ i J am not conscious . Failing-to do this ^ . i H is ? io itQ peachmetit of -you ^ sagacity . to ¦¦
sayjthatyou cannot effect an impossibility ^ ¦ ¦** -. ¦ . ? } .- r . h . ¦• Q * Sir , I may take my leave of ^ 0 * 1 with the soletnn 4 eclai ? aidO ) i of the Bather of the faithful , "If youbriieve not Mm&i * nd the pj ^ tkei ^ ' ? . to whom I may add still higher authojrtties , namety , > the Son ; ot 6 i ) d ajad Jbfe inspired apostles , " neither will you believe , though pn 6 rose froitnJfee dead ^ ' Exeunt , [ . r • ¦ ' . . . .. .. . ¦ ¦ '•; : .. / TV *
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Thhrs is / something so consonant to our best feelings in ^ the -circ unvstattce » Maasocia $ ed with the Christian Sabbath , that we qftn' - fc ^ rdly hrfp wondering at its having ev ^ r been made the subject of obje $ i 6 B % .,, Mfe vemi&eaLiof a busy world stopping , as by general consent , the giddy xoxmd
of occupation to devote a day in seven to their Maker ; the-thought 0 & 30 many separate hearts blending in their meditations , so many different voieas rising together to the throne of the Creator , possesses infinite attraction } for the > spirit that has learned sometimes to wander beyond its own narrow ; qsIL ^ NowtV ( we at » e pleased to think ) " the hum of business is hushed , that hum so , full of agitation , that mingled hum of care and gaiety , of fears and hopfcs . Ali ^ hat composed that mass of hu m an passion and energy , are now withdrawn to a temporary retirement : the prosperous man to pay his , trifouje to Him whose providence directs the tide of human aftairs ; the unfQrtiUi > a < je man to relieve his thoughts from earthward , and feel that He who cfraptens
is still good and gracious . Now , the monarch forgets his sceptre , the senator his anxious charge , the soldier his warfare , ifre prisoner ; his chai ^ . Now , the father foregoes his labours , the mother her oare * . ThQ jstiidious
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% 1 • 1 THOUGHTS ON TtiB SABBATH . ^ \
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 803, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/19/
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