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j € fc | td tbe w » aih fcnd curse of- the Almighty , % fe" $ ffc * ttaable to do ally tbit ^ g to deliver ourselTefc til l hfe singles us ^ ut for salvati on by his electing grace , and that then we are to tely for our acceptance
wholly upon the righteousness of another , transferred to us by faith , which faith must also be exclusively his work :- if this be all the Gospet does , what jpeater benefit does it confer than it would
be to open the eyes of a blind man that he might see himself immured in a dungeon ? Instead of calling us to $ <** $ and to virtue , " it destroys every incentive to excellence of character . Instead of rep re . sentirig God afi worthy to beloved with all the heart and sobl ; and
strtigth , and mind / ' it holds him forth its ah object of terror—as artfittaiy ^ capri cious , and cruel . Itfstrad of teaching us love to our secies and reverence for ourselves , WtilfoM us to look upon both as fi&ty * i&fcct ) contemptible beings , hitta ^ - th ^ ir Make r , and of
c&ttifcefcateftil to each other . And thtis It would seem -that no real Iftitibta having been- made to the W 6 Mrfedge ^* he virtu e ahd the hapless of mankind , they had with gtf&ter advantagebeealeft to the meft light of nature to find out AWr duty to God , to each other a&d to themselves -I -
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On the supposed Inability of Man to do any thing towards his own Stthation . ' y [ Fr omtlic Same ] Ephcg , chap . ii . ad
m lifts ^ itt t > f his d ress to «* CbVwkian converts at Ephesus , t"e aW ? w 3 ft places iu strong con-** % twut former ^ cotidition ^ un-J ^^ tM *^ heat h 4 niMn ^ ^ Wtf pte ^ ttt situation under vo vi . z
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the light aUd glory of the gospel * He describes the firmer fcs a disgraceful and abject submission to the tyranny of corrupt desires and passions , and even as a state of death J offcbsohite insensibility to every thing that was great and excellent . Their character wrfs
like that which he pictures in such dark colours , in the beginning of bis epi § tle to the Romans ; sinners even against that sehse of right and Avrong , which God hath im ~ planted in the heart of every
rational being ; children of disobew dience ^ and therefore children of wratii ; or , as he expf ^^ es it ift the &th versed of the 5 th chaptef of this epistle ^ " because of these
things , the wrath of < 3 od cometh upon the children of disobedience : ** and again , to the Colossians , for which things * sake , cometb the
wrath of God upon the chitdreii of disobedience ; in the \ vhich ye also walked some tiitte , when ye lived in them . " He then magnifies the grace of God in the gospel ^
his rich , abundant , overflowing mercy whichr called them as it were from death to life , from wallowing in the filth of sin , to a state of purity , dignity and glo ry * He seems to labour to find words '
adequately to express this astonishing condescension ( v , 6 , T . )> reminding them as it was uaosf proper to dr > that it was not fb ^ any desert of their own that tftis grace was manifested toward * thetx *;
not for any thing they had pievii . t ) Uslydon € ^ to merit sue 6 an in terposition , or , as he expressed it ilk his epistle to Titus , * not by works of righteousness * r hit * h we had * done , but according to hflb mrrttg he saved us ^ He then trtb thence
that tlwtfe ^ fto no wfie re rtfce ^ with teapeet to pt 4 vil ^ e # l ^ tween thern ^ and - the fvxmtrly chosen
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On tht supposed InabitHy of Mtfn to mmt in his Safoation . 1 # 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/41/
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