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•' . * ' -. ; cui Jr ?/ fy 22 , 181 O . How peculiarly does public worship help tor ; give firmness to the * fitet in tMe jooriuay of life . . The only safe way to counterbalance the various trials of life
is-to cultivate that entire dependence on the wisdom and goodness of God , which alone can ensure solid peace of mind . To my feeble apprehension , tfa £ principles of
Unitarian ism are the- ' only ortes that ^ an enable one to 4 o this , for they are the only ones which represent the Deity as he h ^ a being worthy ^ f oqr confidefice . Certain it is ,
that / never felt either inucsh love to or confidence in God before I was a Unitarian , and that the morel thought of his supposed plans of providence , the more each of these sentiments towards him abated in
my mind ; till at last I dreaded , if I contemplated religion too much , that I should lose all sense of it . But nowy that a juster view ofthings is before me , I can praise my God with i « y whole soul , and
every night amd morning pray for entire acquiescence with his divine willj and with a perfect reliance on his all-efficacious mercy . I used to be gloomy and melancholy in all my expectations , and in the general train of my ideas .
Thinking I lived under the sway of a morose and implacable tyrant , I never could comprehend , that there was ai * y tiling but arbitrary pervefseness in having called me into being at all . I may now say , I am not the same creature that I
once was . So much do I feel all this , that I e an not n&to imagine how a rejecting - Trinitarian' ca ^ h $ topM )} J ^» ffi'J * JDnj Ti ^| j ; xjlMfep , apy fcir ^ m ^§| aftc ^ i ,, # K f * p * very uncommon ones indeed per * fectly miserable .
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^ I '» agree with ' iyou * in < vmBt ' y&& say oil the * doctrine Gf red ^ Ription : but why do we Utiitorians , tftot ibe- " ] ieviRg > m the-common notion cott- ^ eernFng * it , call' Jesus Gferi ^ t ^^ bur SaViour V Our teac&er , divrbfeljr
inspired , he certainly was » : i ^ C does no& Saviour mean something more , and is not < srar usirtg ^ lie term as we do , implying ! aft - toe * quiescence in $ he abominable \ toC ^ trine of a sacrifice for our ^ ibs ?—^^
doclrine the source of « o mt 1 !^!^ impiety in the world . -tbf&'iA&M I think on the subject , tbe JH 6 * e ' I incline to an opinion which came into aiy head about eleven months ago , viz . that God , lor all-wise
Reasons , means to keep the Jews a distinct people , and th ^ t , as he generally uses commori motal means to effect his purposes , he has employed the ~ doctrines of Trinitarianism for this end ; their
introduction has been like a wall w <> und seven times round this peo - ple , to keep them alonfe Jtt the midst of the Christian world * Hail Unitarian Christianity cpBtinued from the first , there -would not
have been such a thing in thii globe as a Jew . March 9 , I # tl . I am sure you will hesit with
pleasure , that during all toy late sufferings , I have beer * gteatty supported ^ my mind has always been calm , and more than resigned , for it has been contented . "But a
Unitarian , who sees the God of lovb in evory dispensation has supports and comforts unknown to less sublime systems of religion . Yes ! our Christianity is the reli * gion of consolation . Dec . 10 , 1812 .
The entire dbserge of all rcjligious oonversfltioii at —r < &J 0 m an evil , and the want oC religious
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1813, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2426/page/34/
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