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and is therefore in a religious sense the same thing with repenting ; hence , when our Saviour urges upon his hearers that they are to
be converted and become as little children , he implies that they should turn about from the way ia which they are , to thatin which they firstsetout—the way in which their gracious Maker placed them
when he first set them forward on the perilous journey of life . " On this subject the author argues with great force , that •* whatever it be ihat is derived to us from the original transgression of Adam , it cannot be guilt' and that we are born with powers sufficient to
enable us to grow up in goodness : from these and other propositions which he justifies with much acuteness and sound argumentation , he deduces a number of very
important inferences . A part of the concluding application we shall transcribe , as containing affectionate advice to that class of . persons who are most likely to lend an ear to the voice of instruction .
" To those then that are young , that are not yet advanced beyond that period of life when little or nothing can have been done in prejudice of their hopes , let me give this plain and short , but comprehensive admonition , to * remember their Creator in the days of their youth / so as to « walk in his ways , ' by * ruling themselves after his word /
To remember him , while they may look lip to him with joy , and before those evil days come , " when they will otherwise be driven to seek him and his pardoning mercy in the bitterness of sorrow . Their consciences reproach them Jiitherto with nothing that is matter of particular repentance . Let ihi m take care then so to order their future goings , that when death at last shall overtake
them , they may then also be found in the number of those « just persons that need no repentance . " To persons who , from whatever cause , are apt to despond of the goodness of God , we earnestly
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recommend the Sermon on u Re . * ligious Melancholy , " in which though the preacher does not attempt to enumerate every case of
distress which apprehensions for their future condition give rise to , yet he states some of the principal of them , in order to convince his readers that if it is their sincere intention to serve and please God ,
though for the present they go on their way weeping , they shall however , come again with joy , and bring their sheaves with them . The design of the Discourses on the Jewish and Christian
Sabbaths , is to inquire into the origin of the nature of the former , and of the observance of the latter which took place on the , establishment of Christianity ; and of the obligations mankind have been
under from time to time to pay a regular attention to them as institutions of divine original , Mr , Manning traces the origin of the Jewish sabbath not to the creation , but to the entrance of the children
of Israel into the wilderness , at the time of their deliverance out of Egypt , more than 2500 years after the creation : hence he infers that the ritpal law , and the sabbath as a day of entire rtsty were given at the same time : the latter as a sign or mark of distinction between the Jews and the
idolatrous nations with which they were surrounded . It was not of the nature of a moral duty ; but a positive institution enjoined on the people of Israel only and he adds :
" With the exceptions to "works of necessity and humanity , and such as related to the service of God in the temple , the Jewish sabbath required of that people a total cessatiou from all labours and occupations
whatsoever : and , in this alone , as far as appears from the letter of the commandment , did the due obwrvajnee of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/50/
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