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efficyency on the extraordinary physical effects produced by it on the animal frame of the sincere convert . The regular practitioner on the contrary , reposes no confidence in charms and incantations , but proceeds steadily in
the sober track of careful experiment ; he trusts nothing to hypothesis , but patiently examines the scriptures of truth , and having faithfully endeavoured to ascertain their real meaning , presumes not to make any promises which they do not certainly authorize . Now ^ Mr . Editor , we , who call ourselves rational dissenters , are , if I mistake not , of this
latter number , and if throughout the kingdom there is but one academy , ( for I dare not venture at present to call it a college ) where our youth can be educated on these principles ^ is it nothing to us whether it shall be firmly and effectually supported ? The Emperics have their schools ,
their academies , and their colleges in all parts of the world : — Among them there is no want of zeal to spread and perpetuate their fanciful opinions , and are ours less important because they admit of demonstration ?
Mr . Editor , when the Scriptures- shew me a man alive from the dead , when they point out by his example the road which I must pursue to attain the like blessedness , I comprehend their meaning—my heart is stimulated to
farther attainments in holiness—my spirit is comforted—I rest upon C ( the Rock of ages , "—and look forward with humble triumph , to glory , honour , and immortality ! AVhat is it to me that , old age approaches ? That I am hastening quickly towards that goal which humanity cannot pass ?
That my sun , sinking low in its horizon , throws daily across my path the lengthened shadows of many a departed year gone by into eternity ? What is all this to me ? Christ my exemplar was dead and is alive again , and lives for evermore ! And shall I be indifferent whether those who are to succeed me . when thev too arrive on the confines of the
grave , shall enjoy a like privilege ? But our sons , Mr . Editor , subject early to far different influences and associations , will never become sincere believers in empiricism ; there is then but this alternative , either we must provide Seminaries for them where they may be faithfully instructed in the simple principles of genuine Christianity , or we abandon them at once without fear or restraint to wC the lust of the flesh , the lust of the eve and the pride
of life , " to that world of seducing temptations , where , abanj
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/25/
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