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shall oe connected , and be highly acceptable tohis Ob $ . On the other . hand it does mean , thsit ^ in , the fape , of the Christian world , and in tnc presence ol ihat great Being firom whom Christibnity proceeded , yod elecfc the minister yvho i $ presente . oV to us a $ your ; future teacher , monitor and gujde , to conduct your public worspip , to assist y 6 u in fee w&Yk of Christian verity and duty , tb counteract the vitiating- influence of the -world ,, to rescue you from , its
littlettet&ss , debasements and corruptions , and minister to the great object of all your Christian warfare , your final abceptance with God . and admission to the b ' essetfness of heaven , it means that the officiating minivers know the object of your choice enough to justify their concurrent approbation ; that they believe him to be invested by God with abilities fitted for the office to which he
devotes himse . f ; that his education has been directed to the improvement of these ubilitie *; that there are no illomened appearances of a light , a worldly or a vicious mind ; and that if these advantages and these promises be seconded by future diligence and hone ty ,
he will not , he cannot defeat the expectations which you entertain of him . In fin £ , it imports a moral contract between you and him ; th-at he shall teach , and that you will receive his teat hing with attention , with a disposition to be instructed , but with a reserve of your own judgment ; that he shall admonish ,
reprove , correct , and that you will suhruic yourselves to his admonitions and reproof , nor suffer any pride or petulance , or baser interests to resist the j ^ ood tendency of his virtuous admonitions ; that he shall lead and guide ; and inasmuch as he is vindicated by the truth of human nature and the truth of
God , that you ivjtt honestly , humbly and affectionately present yourseiVCs to his guidance , " 111 this view ordination is a highly becoming usage . Public religion requires the , notoriety and solemnity of public acts ; while a . more importwit act of public religion cannot be , than that
engagement , which is to minister to your character as good men , and to your homines as expectants of a gloiimis- " 'hereafter . It guards against the introduction of improper men into the xnimatiy , ; » FWt the being seduced to / VH choice , which nvt-e , experienced and honest linuLtetf will not ratify with
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their approbation , it I did nqt view ordinalir > n in ,, this respectable ? , ajij& t ^ . ftil light , I would ,. bear np part iri 4 } U office ; for with the hi gher view of &c > Ing my part before C ^ od , f hope thstl ( am above all temptation of acting an * other partbefbre . men ; and in this I trust " I sjieaktbr my brethren also -Pp . s ^ j 4 > 5 < . .
Ftdm the sermon on Sincerity ; we arc tempted io tjuote the foU low I rig passage oh thfc importance of inward serenity ami selt ' -apprb * bat ion . \ * ' A man ' s heart is his npmcj his perpetual honie , % a which from all the bustlings of the world , its fatiguing cares , and flattering ; promises , he must every day retire ; and if he findFnot in his 71-sits to this home a kind , a cheerful and a gracious reception , not one of his flattering attainments and tumultuous joys will afford him . a consolation for the
peace which . he has lost , for the dissatisfactions and upbraidmgs of his own mind . If therefore in his daily visits to this home , and as interested only in his present life , and while the promise of life is yet young " , : he find from this unpleasant reception the bitter which turns his sweet into ga . ll , what must be his sensations , when in the rude shocks of
this world of trial he must encounter those disappointments , which annihilate the world to him , the wreck of fortune , the death of children ) the attack of excruciating puin , or the tedium of HngeriBg disease ; , but more still , what indeed mu ., t . be bis sensations , when death
summons him before that being * , ' whom he ha ; not cultivated the hope , that is the balm to every care , " the medicine to every grief * and the only cordial in that hour of ., serious , apprehension . " Pp . 96 , 9 ^ , ln ' ihe sermon entitled ! ^
Christianity u pt'rfc y t li ^ hr / ' afc the fi > iiowhr ^ scMitih ' iOiUs . ** It is not the Ica-t ' " advantage of the lninisteriul profession ; that it Jeads us to a conversation with , the berft bopk that ever was put into the hands ot man , perhaps to it more attentive and familiar coiiversuti ' Dii' wirh it , than in , a different profession ' w * e - / n « j ? ht -have known . It may be owing to this , that whatever t > ur- conduot * b # , - we have higher ideas of the djuty 0 / a Christian , thm \ others appear-to he . pescc ^ s ^ »*»
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380 Review .- ^ -Sermons it / Genrge Walk er .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/38/
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