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N * But the great advantage which will arise from this correspondence between your doctrine and your conduct , will be experienced in the authority , effect , and influence of your familiar conversation . Your own observation will soon
apprize you of the peculiar advantages tor instilling and impressing useful sentiments , wise maxims , and good principles , which attend familiar conversations be > ond the efficacy of public instructions . The attention of men ' s
thoughts is thus more powerfully engaged ; they are less under the influence of formality ; they make a more particular and immediate application of what they hear and they remember it more durably . We are also more at liberty , i& conversation , to employ various methods of impression , and many favourable circumstances may afford us
advantages , of which we could not avail ourselves in a public discourse . What pity that we should lose so many of these advantages ; and that our familiar conversations should so often be unprofitable to these noble purposes ! Affectation , indeed , of every kind is apt to disgust ; but when the train of the conversation itself inclines that way , and the
- disposition o * the company seems prepared to foliow , why should we neglect so fair an opportunity of suggesting thoughts which may cherish a Christian temper , and promote the general improvement in wisdom and virtue ? Great prudence , doubtless ^ and knowledge of men and times , are requisite to success in this branch of duty 3 but let not prudence degenerate into timidity , and shackle and disable you for a ser-
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Several interesting events have occurred since our last Retrospect , by which the loveis of peace and of war will be variously affect' d . To us , every dimijoution of iho 8 , e causes , which have a tendency to excite animosity and ill blood , will be received with heartfelt satisfaction , not from personal motives , should we have been liable to the grievances remo * ed > but fron ) tne joy that we must be affected with , by every improve-
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vice , which is , perhaps , one of the Moat beneficial , when lightly performed , of any connected with the ministerial character . " But I mu&t not any longer trespass upon the patience of this assembly . I therefore hasten to conclude by applying to your case , with a slight variation , a remark suggested to myself on one of
the most interesting occasions of my life - * ? a remark , indeed , sufficiently obvious , but capable of being impioved to very important purposes by a reflecting mind , One generatio ?? passeth awayy and another generation cometh . You , my young frien-ds , who are now about to leave us , to engage in the ministerial service with different societies of
Christians , are most of you descended from ministers of the gospel , several of them highly eminent for their services to the church and world , —one of you in the fourth generation successively in the same family . May you , my young friends , through the blessing of God , far excel your ancestors , in all ministerial gifts and graces , in diligence , in
fidelity , and in abundant success ! May you contribute more to the spread of Christian truth in the world ! May you gain many more seals to your ministry , who may be your joy and crown of rejoicing in the day of the Lord Jesus 1 And when He , the Chief Shepherd , shall appear , may you receive from Him a crown of glory that may never fade
away ! This is the fervent wish aDd prayer of an affectionate father and a faithful friend—May the God of all grace confirm it !* " \
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ment in justice and honour , whether in this or any other country . A bilP has passed through Parliament in silence , which we were amused to see styled , in the public papers , the Trinity E > octrinc Bill , as , on the perusal of the title , it might be imagined , that some new explanation had been given Co the name , Ordination Service at Fudsey , Sept * 2 > 5 t J 7 & * . P . x * 7 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 484, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/60/
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