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nothing hurt to please liim and promote the eomihon happiness . And whoever possesses these dispositions , hath already a foretaste and earnest df heaven * * whs : * 1 ^ ' ? ' \; . On the resurreption of Christians he remarks [ voL II * number wi . ] : —
«¦ —There is a peculiar satisfaction and greater confidence of out own being to be raised to life , resulting from our Lord being a man as we ar c * Had he heen one of the angelic order , or a mighty pre-existent spirit , he miglit be supposed by his own energy and power to have raised ttoe body tfc which he was
confined . Nor could his resurrection , then , be so properly called a pattern of our ' s : St . Paul * therefore , is careful to inform us , ( i Cor . xv . ab ) that , since by man came death , by man came also the resurrection of the dead . For as by
Adam all -die , so hy Christ shall all be made alive . But every niari in bis own orders Christy the first-fruits ; afterward ^ , they that are Christ's at his coming : '> . c . As all tlve descendants of Adam die aud follow the fate of their
first pareat , as partaking of his imperfect constitution ; go all the faithful followers of Christ shall , after him , fee . restored to life , and be conformed to the image of their glorious leader . But each one in his natural order . Christ , as the
firstfruits of slumbering dust , and the earnest of a plentiful harvest , in the first place ; afterwards , all his true disciples , who shall be raised to life , at the time of his second appearance , at the day of judgment . ' Those great Protestant
principles by the consistent application of which Mr . JLindsey was led to the acknowledgment and profession of that pure truth of the gospel which he diffused by means of his sacrifices and labours - he avows
with firmness , but also with a benevolence as exemplary as it is rkre 9 in numbers iiu xiv . xviii . XXi of the first volume , and in numbers ix . xvi . xviii . xix of tke
second . Our readers will , unquestionably , be gratified by the following passages in whicli the preacher ,
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addressing the congregation that he hg , d founded , says : " You do not findJEault if aay doctrine be oiFered by your ministers from the Scriptures , di £ Fercnt from your former habits of thinking : but , like those nobleminded persons ( Acts xvli . xx ) to whom
Paul preached , ye search those sacred writings whether those things are s # > which they profess to bring from them , and abide by that which your own judgment at the last approves ;—which is certainly the way to improve in the knowledge of the truth , both for mini ** ters and their hearers . "
" I may here mention a remarjcablc fact , a few years ago , relating to a congregation of dissenters in this cit ^ r , some of whorn , I apprehend , have almost frotia the beginning attended our worship . ' * <* The late learned and worthy Dr »
Fleming , having been long , an Arian , as it is called ^ that is believing Christ to * have been a great pre ^ e ^ isterit spirit , but inferior to GocL and created by hith ^
from reading tjie Scriptures , and perhaps from his ifriend Dr . JLardner ' s judicious interpretations of them , he was brdttght to see and believe that the blessed Jesus was only a human creature , highly fa--voured and endowed with extraordinary gifts apd pp ^ fer ^ by Ajnaighty God , *'
*< This change in his sentiments he communicated publicly to the congregation where he attended ; add , to their just honour , they thought not the le $ * favourably of him ; havtrever at the time some might not be moved by his arguments 5 nor did lie lose one of hk audience on this account . " *
In the Remaining sermons Mr , Lindsey is yet more eminently ' tli&n in tKe re ^ t tHe dJevoiioneir aricl practical prc ^ ch ^ ir : and arinong this glass of his discourses , nurnber
iv . vol . I . " Compassion recom * mended froiti the example of Christ /* and numher iii , vol . llv " ( in purity of hearty will particulaiJy approve th ^ niselves ^ wi ^ presume , to readers of pious * sensi - bility ahd reflection . We make the fallowing : extracts
* Vol . II . pp ; 408 , 4 < 59 *
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44 Review . —isind&eiPr ' ISertnonk
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/44/
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