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warnings are entitled to the serious attention of both communities . He considers both as transgressors against the religious law acknowledged severally by them , and he calls upon the Jew to look to Moses , and upon the Christian to look to Christ .
We have space but for one extract : " Our Holy Writings are filled with the reproaches of the prophets against our fathers of the house of Israel , for their repeated rebellious , their departures from the law . The prophets that they had set up for themselves , prophesied falsely ; and the priests bore rule through their means , and the people loved to have it so . Is not this reproof
equally applicable to the nations , which profess to be the followers of Jesus ? Have not their prophets prophesied falsely ? Do not priests bear rule through their means , and do not the people love to have it so ? If the Holy Land was at one time polluted with images of
false gods , has not Europe , and all the uations who have received the gospel , been denied with images , and with crosses set upon their places of worship ? Nay , do not the people now delight in these things , and delight in having the picture of a dead man before their eyes in the midst of their devotions ?
" The picture of a dead roan , -ot the picture of a man in the agonies of death in a place of worship—what a horrible conception ! What a profanation of every thing that is sacred 1 What think ye , that Louis the Eighteenth , when he returned to France , would have thought of a procession to congratulate him , which carried on high the representation of the
guillotine , presenting to him pictures of the miserable catastrophe which ended the days of his brother on a scaffold ?—So far from this being the case , all the pictures and prints relative to that transaction were carefully secluded from the public view . —Will the Supreme , then , do you think , be pleased with representations of the sufferings of his beloved Son ? Does he require to be put in
mind every week of his agony and bloody sweat , his death and sufferings on the cross ? No , my brethren ; the Supreme is to be approached in a very different manner . This talk of agonies too much resembles the cutting and slashing of the priests of Baal , by which they attempted to provoke the attention of a god , who was peradventure asleep , or on a journey . " —Pp . 6 , 7 . This convert from the Hebrews to Unitarian Christianity * promises his na-
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tion " a future address ; " and we heap tily wish that his " Appeals * ' may awaken the House of Israel from their slumber of ages . He may , perchance , also stir up inquiry into the strange worship of Christendom , in the minds of some Christians whom the expostulations of native fellow-Christians have hitherto failed of impressing .
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Art . VIll . --The Crown of Righteousness . A Discourse delivered at Brtdport , April 29 , 1827 , on occasion of the Death of the Rev . G . Barker Wawne . By Edward Whitfield . 8 vo . pp . 28 . Exeter , printed by Besley ; sold by R . Hunter , London .
Mr . Wawne was a truly amiable , respectable , and useful Christian pastor , and will be remembered by his generation with affectionate regret . The preacher of his Funeral Sermon has done justice , but not more than justice t to his superior talents and many virtues . From this interestmig tribute to his memory we glean a few particulars relating to his exemplary life and Christian death .
«< By one of those events which to the eye of mortals is inscrutable , our deceased friend was deprived , at a very early age , of the blessings of maternal tenderness and instruction . To him , however , such was the goodness of his disposition , this loss was of less consequence than to many ; and he advanced in life displaying great sobriety of mind , and evincing such a thirst for knowledge as no acquisitions could assuage . " —Pp ; 17 , 18 . " Born aud educated amongst
the Wesleyan Methodists , his first religious impressions were , of course , in harmony with the opinions of that sect of Christians ; but his mind could pot rest satisfied with them . He sought ( or himself till conviction came upon hinj ; till one by one , he relinquished their pe-r culiar tenets , and professed the faith inculcated in that passage o . f Scripture , * There ia one God , and one Mediator between God and men , the man Christ
Jesus . ' At this time he was entering on the world , and his prospects were smiling . The way to success , and even to wealth , was opening before him . But he could not chain his mind to business . He longed to be more than commonly useful in the world ; he aspired to the office which he held iii this place with such distinguished honour to himself aud advantage to you . His flattering prospects were relinquished without a sigh \
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 843, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/59/
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