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    cumstances , I have nothing left me but the part on which I have determined , and that is , To withdraw myself from ministering In the church of England , either till our forms shall have undergone such a revision and alteration as I think they stand in need of , or till time and farther study shall have prevailed upon me to view

    them in a different light from what I can do at present . This I therefore thus publicly declare that I do , with becoming hurhility , with the utmost diffidence and regret for differing from such numbers of -wise and good nien , and with the resolution to persist in such studies , as may best serve the general cause of religion , at the same time that they bid fairest for affording my own mind the

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    REMARKS ON SACKITIGES .

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    For the Monthly Repository ^

    Sacrifices are of the highest antiquity , and seem to have been adopted by all the ancient nations as a part of their religion . They

    constituted no small part of the heathen superstition , and occupied a considerable place in the Jewish ritual service . The origin of sacrifices is involved in the

    greatest obscyrity ; the earliest account we have of them is found in the sacred scriptures , but we are not told how they originated ,

    or what led to the adoption of them in religious worship . We have no proof that they wejre originally of divine appointment ; had thitt been the ^ case it is

    reasonable 16 think it would have been mentioned by Moses . There seems to us , at first view , no necessary nor natural connexion between sacrifices and piety , or

    moral purity ; and they certainly have been vpxy generally applied to superstitious and anti-moral purposes . The scriptures make no mention of God ' s giving any direction concerning sacrifices before

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    conviction none can more ardently wisfe me than niyself * I will only add , that I do not mean to preclude myself from officiating in any other protestant congregation ; on the contrary , should I see reason to believe that there is any number of pious people disposed to attend a place of public worship , where a liturgy , not materiall y different from Dr . Clarke ' s , shall be

    usedt , I will take the first opportunity which presents itself of opening a place of public worship , with such a liturgy . In this I shall do no more than follow that strong inclination , which first hd me to adopt , and will ever incline me to return to , the most pleasing , the most honourable , the most useful of all occupations . HENRY MATY .

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    the days of Abmm ; nor after that time , before the Israelites were brought out of Egypt . AH along until that timev so far as we can judge , mankind were left to the light of nature ijpon this subject , unless what is mentioned Job ,

    xlii . 8 ^ be an exception , Very erroneous and injurious notions of sacrifices have obtained , and still prevail Among many

    Christians . 1 . It has been sup . posed that they were . necessary to placate the deity , satisfy his justice , and obtain forgiveness , and other peculiar favours from him for his offending creatures . Such absurd notions were common

    among the ancient heathen , and as the life of a man was deemed more valuable than the life of any other creature , to avert a great calamity human victims were

    sometimes offered . The supposition that murder could be pleasing to the deity , when committed as an act of religion , seems to have been the lowest degradation oi x-easotiK and the vilest branch of

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    444 Remarks on Sacrificesi

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 444, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/20/