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the necessity of revelation , for though man might at last arrive to a considerable pitch of moral perfection , by his reasoning faculties alone , yet his progress would be slow , and in many things the light of nature would not be sufficienc y clear , so that on the whole a revelation fmat God would be higjily beneficial to the interests of mankind . Christianity is enierg . ing from the midst of corruptions , the efforts of a Priestley and a Lirtclsey have contributed to
restore it to its original purity ; but could any Christian of the fifteenth century have attacked natural religion on the score of' its
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REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF FIXIAL PIETT .
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September lOthy 1810 . Among the instances of filial piety , which observation presents or biography records ^ none , perhaps , are so engaging as the examples of those children who have shewn the tenderest regard to the characters or the memories of
th ^ ir parents ,, after they had themselves risen lo distinction and to wealth ; It is related of Sir Thomas More , that 4 * towards his fatter he gave many proofes of his
natural affection and lowlie mind . 'Whosoever he passed through Westminster Hall * tp his place in th $ Chancerie , by tfae Court of the King ' s Bench , if his father , who apie there as judge , had be £ n setp diDune 'ere he came , lie would go to him . and , reverently < kneels ^ l .
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insufficiency , and that it afforded wrong notions of the Deity ? Could not the infidel have alleged with equal propriety , that Christians had departed as widely from the revealed will of God , as hea * thens from the precepts of natural religion i
The sole intention of the pre - ceding discussion , is to vindicate natural religion from the attacks pf bigots , who ignorantly think that they are rendering a most important service to Christianity , whilst they are sapping its foundations . j 6 hn higman-
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ing doune in sight of all , aske him blessing . This virtuous custome he alwayes solemnlie observed ; though then men after their marriages , thought themselves not bound to these duties of younger
folks . If they had , at readings at Lincolne ' s Inn , or elsewhere , chanced to meet , together , he would offer , ia arguments and othei : observaunces , ttie preheminence to his father , though , for
his office , * the father would not accept of it . These respects of an obedient child , he kept while his father lived , and pfter he never forgat feotk by hartje prayer and manie tender remembrances of
his virtue /* Benjamin Kenaicott , well known by ljis services to biblical literature , was born at Totness , in Detafccn
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4 SS Remarkable Instances of Filial Piety .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/28/
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