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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR, The Christian's Survey of the Political JVorld.
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* In the discourse that I am going to read to you , J et us gives a more particular account of tl c final day of judgment , one of tl o * e great events , of which he had given a general intimation before ; but o £ the time o £ which he acknowledged , that he was ignorant . Nothing in all the scriptures , from the nature of the subject , is so interesting
and awful as this . It is impossible to peruse it , if we give due attention to it , ¦ without emotion ; being an account of the proceedings of that great day , from its reference to which every thing else in life derives its importance , and delivered by the person , who is appointed by God to preside in it . Something figurative must be allowed in this
account , but at the same time , if we maydepend upon the account of the apostle Paul , who had it by revelation from .
our Saviour , it must be in general , literally true ; at least there is no appearance of figure in his account . In order te comfort the Thcssalonians with respect to their deceased friends , he says , that " they who are alive at the coming of Christ , " should have no advantage , over those who died before that event ; but that on the appearance of their Sa-
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Within the last hundred years , the blood of Englishmen flowed in Spain , for the sake of opposing the
establishment of a Bourbon on its throne . All Spain is now in arms , with a vigour inconceivable , and an enthusiasm without bounds in the cause of a Bourbon : and the English court has acknowledged the Bourbon dynasty , and will defend it to the utmost . Such is the state of human
politics , of which brutal force is the arbiter . Thousands upon thousands will be slain in this contest . But the contest is not now merely about a name , whether a Napoleon or a Bourbon should
reign : but whether Spain should be an independent nation , and be governed by its own laws , and by a sovereign , unshackled by foreign restraint , but under just subjection to the laws of the realm .
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viour , " the dead in Christ , " as they are called , should rise first , and that ' thea they who shall be found alive , shall be changed , and joining those who will then be raised from the dead , " shall in
meet the I ^ ord the air , and so shall be for ever with him . " In what manner the proceedings of this great day will be conducted , we cannot tell ; but probably without any distinct or formal examination of every individual person , which indeed is not intimated in this
account . Perhaps by some means unknown to us at present , every person ' s real character will be at once conspicuous , so that the sentence of the Judge will strike ail with the fullest conviction . " Priestley ' s Notes on all the Books of Scripture . Vol . Hi . Sect . 76 . That your valuable Repository
may be extensively useful , in promo tin" the cause of liberal inquiry , religious truth , Christian candour and rational pietv is the sincere wish of , Sir , your ' s respectfully , THOMAS HOWE .
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In this cause England is engaged with ardour . Is it for love of freedom , virtue , and independence , or merely through hate and fear of the common enemy ? Spain is now become the enemy of Buonaparte : let us not seek too narrowly into motives ; England is become its friend . The nations warring with
each other profess to be Christians : and yet by brutal force are attempting to settle a question , which with reasonable and Christian-like minds would scarcely admit a moment ' s discussion . What horrors , what bloodshed will not be the
consequence ! Whosoever sheds man s blood , his blood will be shed , was a primitive law : what a dreadful responsibility then rests upon those , on whom ultimately depends ' thu death of myriads of human beings !
Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or, The Christian's Survey Of The Political Jvorld.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christian ' s Survey of the Political JVorld .
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566 State of Public Affairs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 566, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/42/
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