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think with the wise and speak with the vulgar , but to content ourselves with thinking with the wise for a few minutes at a time , and for the rest of our lives subjecting not only our language , but our belief and our conduct to the dominion of mechanical association and popular prejudice . In such cases , the soul—• Unused to stretch her powers
In flight so daring * , drops her weary wing , ¦ r and , at length , is fain to repose in those crude notions which have often been formed , without any labour or voluntary effort on her part , by the mere influence of the circumstances in which we have been placed .
Constantly to ascribe all to God , may indeed , as Dr . Priestley has somewhere observed , be too much for humanity . Still , however , it is a truly exalted and animating conception , which , at those moments when we have leisure to reflect , may fill our minds with the most pleasing and satisfactory views of the Divine government , and the necessary dependence of everything which exists on the great First Cause . If , in the execution , as well as in the original plan , we in fact discern at every step the immediate exertion of infinite power , then we have a ground of confidence in the entire accomplishment of all which that plan comprehends , as well as in the complete exclusion of everything which it does not absolutely require , which the believer in a general providence only , interfering occasionally to check and control the operation of a multitude of inferior delegated powers , can but imperfectly and faintly conceive . W . T . Halifax *
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The following part of an address delivered early in the present year , in the church of the Oratoire in Paris , on the consecration of M . Horace Gourjon to the Protestant church of Cherbourg , contains indications of the present state of religion , and of the expectations of its friends and champions in France . M . CoquereJ , the preacher , is one of the many thinking men in the French church ; his views as to the pro-• per object of worship are precisely ours ; he is an anti-calvinist , but holds the doctrines of the pre-existence and of the atonement in a sense not easily explained . His are the views generally prevalent in the reformed church . The church newly dedicated in Cherbourg , is pne of several granted by the government to the Protestants , who have recently numbered many new ones , ond is endowed with the salary paid by the state , ftrf * J . W *
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THE REV . M . A . COQXJEREL ON THE STATE AND PROSPECTS OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN FRANCE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/56/
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