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* 1 ice or impeach th € m ; it is safe for you to put a crown on their head , and a reed in their hands , and to bow before them , and cry , Hail ! King of the Jews . —But to little purpose is verbal reverence without entire submission and
sincere obedience $ and as our Saviour said of some , so thescripture , could it speak , I believe would say to you , XVhy call ye me Lord , Lord , and do not that
which I command you ? Cast away the vain and arrogant pretence of infallibility , which makes your errors incurable . Leave picturing God and worshipping him by pic * tures . Teach not for doctrines
the commandments of men . De . bar not the laity of the Testament of Christ ' s blood . Let 3 'our public prayers , and psalms and hymns , be in such language as is for the edification of the assistants .
Take not from the clergy that lu berty of marriage which Christ bath left them . Do not impose upon men that humility cfwor ~ skipping angels which St . Paul
condemns . Teach no more proper sacrifices of Christ but one . Acknowledge them that die in Christ to be blessed and to rest from their labours * Acknowledge the sacrament after consecration ,
to be bread and wine , as well as Christ ' s body and blood . Acknowledge the gift of continency without marriage , not to be given to all . Let not the weapons of your warfare be carnal , such as
are massacres , treasons , persecutions , and , in a word , all means either violent or fraudulent : these and other things which the scripture commands you , ( Jo , and then we shall willingly give you such testimony as you deserve ; but 'till you do so . to talk of ' esti-
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No . X . JVo Prescription against Truth . Against God and truth there lies no prescription , and therefore
certainly it might be great wisdom to forsake ancient errors for mows
ancient truths . One God is rather to be followed than innumerable worlds of men ; and therefore it might be great wisdom either for the whole visible church , nay , for
all the men in the world , having wandered from the way pf truth , to return unto it ; or ior a par ' t of it , nay , for one mon , to do so , although all the world besides were
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Chilling-worth . 415
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No . IX . Cautious Daxblogy .
Consider , lastly , the terrible example of Ananias and Sapphira , and how they were snatched away in the very act of their sin ; and that their fault was , ( as the text
tells us ) that they lytd unto God . Beloved , we have done so , a thousand thousand times : our whole lives ( if sincerel y examined ) would appear , I fear , little less but a perpetual lye . Hitherto
God hath been merciful to us , and given us time to repent ; but let us not proceed still in imitating their fact , lest at length we be made partakers of their fall . God of his infinite mercy
prevent this in every one of us , even for bis Son our Saviour Jesus Christ ' s sake 5 by whom , and with whom 9 in the unity of the Holy Spirit ^ be all honour and glory to the eternal Father , world with * out end % Amen *
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raation , respect and reverence to the scripture , 11 is nothing else hut talk .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/31/
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