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rational being . Theology is taot understood till it is £ een to comprehend all that relates to the cause of all . It teaches the purposes of creation ; it leads to the study of the laws of mind , £ nd reveals the operation of Providence in the history of the htttnari r&ce and of individuals ; it shows how Providence has now guided nations by a Uniform impulse to a certain point of
enlightelimeftt , and now startled them into perceptions of a higher truth by the passing gleams of sortie new philosophy ; now uniting them in the profession of a general faith , more or less pure , and ndw breaking them up into parties of adherents to different schools . It shows how individuals are led on by vicissitudes acting upon their springs of thought and feeling , and opens a prophetic view ifcto the ftittire of another world as well as this . In displaying
{ he Workings , it shows the tvill , of God ; and comprehends the 6 tUdy Of the eternal principles of morals ; and—ever blending the exhibition with the perception ^ ever furn i shing the illustration -with the truth—presents to us the holy , the benignant , form of Mm , the moral image of the Father ; whose name it is our high privilege to bear . Theology has ever included whatever belonged
to the highest interests of man : since it became Christian , it has been the depository of the best treasures of the human spirit ^ ¦ fahere its hopes are stored up , where its joys are renovated , where its griefs are soothed , where its fears are annihilated , where it may find that all things are its Own , as surely as itself is Christ ' s , and Christ is God ' s .
liet it be shown what there is true and beautiful in
POLITICS : in that science which treats , not of this or that rrieasure ^ as if its tesults concerned only the parties expressly contemplated in it ; not of this Or that statesman , as if his influence was bounded to a certain tract Of country , and to the period of his ascendancy ; nor even of this or that country , disconnected from the rest of the
world . Let the grand principles be ever reverted to on which hang , more or less , the destinies of every man that breathes ; and by these principles let every decree of the legislatures of Europe tttid America , every act of the executive , every movement Of the £ eople , be watched and tried . Under the pervading spirit of phibtfithfOpy , let the advances of society be stimulated , its errors exposed , its sing mourned , its tfidmphs hailed j and this , not within dwii bordersbut wherever inen and brethre
omy our , n &fctet . Let ft be felt fits a degradation tvheirt the negro kisses the ftfet 6 f his White tyrant , and comtnemorated as aU era when he sails away to establish himself in freedom on the shore of Another continent . Let it be mounted as a general calamity when a jpfettiot eOtantil dissolves at the nod of A defspot , tirhetKeir a nstrfoW tffcri . or a broad titetixi intervene . Let the ctf for reformation K * ^ h < M / Whether it tttae frdto the streets df Out 6 # n metropolis ,
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¥ 8 Tkeoldgiji Polities , and Literature .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1832, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1806/page/6/
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