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measure , " ft ^ r tjr abt | cin ^ —that honour wtjfic ^ i cdmetfr only from OoiJ . He aspired not at that baneful fame which ia seized by diabolical skill and annual courage in fields of death , —which
history records in blood , which charity defaces with tears ; which , if there is justice in heaven , will be the subject of an awful retribution in that world where the destroyers of life will meet themselves a more terrible
destruction . To the desire of such fame as this the doctrine and the life of Jesus ace directly opposed . His was the glory of pouring the light of divine tram into the dark and bewildered mind , and of delivering it , by just conceptions of the moral government of God , from that bondage of ignorance and superstition , which constitutes its degradation and its misery . H is was the glory of speaking promises of rest to the weary and the heavy-laden ; of taking the desponding penitent by the band , and leading him direct , without the intervention of priests or sacrifices , 4 : o the mercy-seat of" a ^ Father ever ready to forgive * ever anxious to bless even his prodigal child . His was the glory of exposing that pride and covetousness , which establishes an usurped
dominion over the rights of conscience , under the hypocritical pretence of zeal for God ; - —an usurpation which was , and unhappily yet is , employed by men in power , to exalt the few , enclave the many , and defeat the efforts of enlightened benevolence for the peace and improvement of the human race : — -to break down every wail of
partition which divides in an from his Drother , and to bind the rational creation of' God together by the tie of ; a common faith , a common hope , and a common charity ; to extirpate the base passions vvhich embroil the world , by implanting in the heart that love of God and virtue which elevates and
sanctifies all its affections ; and thus to spread a . divine influence over the pursuits and enjoyments of mortality : —in one word , to restore simplicity to religion , purity to ¦ nuraals , dignity to tri
thfe minds , and immortality to e hopes of rational beings : ~*~ this was the ambition * this the glory of the great Captain of cfatr Salvation / fc-4-he joy set tbgrare'him ; for which he * endured the
ie ? b& ( Jdespising tire shame , and is in « 6 tfse < tuence set down at tjhe right ijtMtt&tofIflw J 3 $ ajesty ^ n i high . jo JJitt it / ufeayt . be asked , How is this
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bibes a portion of the same spirit , who acts upon the same views , who cooperates according to his abilities in promoting the same ends to which we have just alluded , as the * ends of our great Master;—he only merits the name and the honours of a Christian
connected with , the [ occasion of our meeting ? In my ju < % rnent , closely We must know the true nature of Christian glory , before we can select the proper objects of Christian admiration , or confer a suitable tribute of Christian eulogy . He only who
imhero ; and it is upon this ground afone that we have assembled to express our veneration for the character and memory of Dr . Daniel Williams . It is not by splendour of birth , of brilliancy of genius , or any of those qualities or deeds which dazzle a vain imagination , that this veneration is excited .
No . But it is because our founder voluntarily abridged even that splendour which his fortune might have commanded ;—k is because he voluntarily devoted solid talents and useful learning to the duties of a profession
which the world despised , and from which he" expected and received no worldly advantage ;—it is because he preferred the simplicity of dissenting worship , and the full possession of Christian liberty , to the favours of the
great , which he might have enjoyed ;—because he chose rather to be the honest , disinterested champion of truth and freedom , than to bask in the sunshine of courts and churches ;—because he thus formed one in that illustrious
band , who have maintained the ri g hts of conscience against the usurpations of power , and blessed their posterity with greater privileges than they themselves inherited ;—^ it is because , after establishing so many claims to respect by an upright and honourable
life , he perpetuated the effect of his beneficence , in devoting his worldly substance , upon a wise and libaral plan , to the instruction of ig norance , the diffusion of knowledge , and the encouragement of rational religion . It is because Dr . Williams acted thus
piously , thus nobly , living and dying ; that the trustees' of his bounty , after the lapse of a centqry , during which his bequests have been the means ot instructing , and we hope of saving thousands , meet themselves , and have brought their friends with them , w express their own thankfulness to J rp *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/2/
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