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wgl ^ l ^^ vaii of drawn £ fc > v £ , preferably to those that jfltffffrom fear . But one excellence 111 femhins to be mentioned , which &e $ infinite advantage to the former ; fconSists in this , that love ennobles ^ e ry good work that proceeds fro m tjjis generous Sentiment , " and renders it mncn niore pleasing to God than an f
thing which is the offspring of fear , jnasmtfch as when love has attained that perfection , which we denote by the term charity , it becomes deserving of that ineffable felicity , the duration of which no time can * limit , and that surpasses in greatness all the human mjnd can conceive . To this happiness neither obedience to the
commandments of God , nor freedom from sin , can ever raise us , if we are merely influenced by fear : it is the reward of love alone . But supposing eternal felicity were doubtful , would riot the certainty that
GUd loves xis , oblige us in return to Irivehim with all our powers ? Men love each other , and run the risk of meeting with reciprocal affection . Exatoples of this are innumerable : we meet with them in every page of
history . Here we read of a man who , at the expense of his fortune , relieves hi 9 friend from want , and is afterwards re * duced to the same situation , without receiving the smallest assistance . In
another p lace we find a veteran who , after" sheading his blood in defence of his country , is repaid by total neglect . Again , a third person divests himself of his offices and employments to confer them on his friend , and raise his
consequence on the ruins of his own . Let us revert to what passes between the ' sexes in this matter , and gives rise to such endless complaints ; though I roust remark that if the affection be criqiirial , the ingratitude is well detfrved : each party accuses the other of perfidy , and what is worse , the
accusation being true on both sides , the yarning is of use to neither . How differe ntl y does God behave towards Jjj l That he loves all those who love Mm , fc a proposition of eternal truth—J sentence he himself has pronounced by the mouth of Solomon , figo
dilii ^ es me diligo , " ( Prpv . viii . ) : and it is * I * &e < i j n the Gospel of St . John , W xiv . , What honour 1 what barVffi *^ Artfqtigihortals , lie Who loves «** Wh ^ otUe ^ ureof V retuVn , *<» tyh en ihe claims of gratitude arc
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supefadded to the strongest tides j JtHT how often does it happen , that the m aa * who receives a favour turns his back on his benefactor , the subject abandon ^ the prince , the prince the subject , the son forsakes his father or the father neglects his son . [ To be concluded in the next iVb / J
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Notes for the Monthly Repository , Irii Mr . Fr . Adr . Vandcr Kemp . Oldenlarneveld , S . of New Y ork July J , 18 if 5 . : Mon . Repos . V . 4 Q . DO not hesitate in the least to I declare that note in the Eclectic
Review without any truth . I am pexy suaded I must have heard of the factj if it were as it . is asserted . Venema , who wrote against Crellius , and re * spected him , La Croze , who loved him , and was his constant correspondent , and bewailed his errors , as i *
evident from their correspondence ^ never suspected it . Till his death Crellius was a member and a patron of the collegiants at Amsterdam , whp were generally Unitarians . He wenj to their place of meeting with Kip sister every Sabbath day , when they
were the only remaining members , and she proposed to serve their ( GroH at home , which he declined , full in Jiope of a revival , and he lived , till Be tlid see the congregation again ' increased to seventy . This I have been . often
told by respectable members of that congregation , who at that- timci could not suspect that Creilius * s religjtopfr opinions would stand in need of ? Ueir evidence . I know all this is ne | jahyrip proof . I shall therefore copy you , t » £
opinion of Bockius , whose oriho 8 oxy as a Trinitarian was , as far as . T know ^ never doubted . * He says , in the Nqt ^ a JLitteraria , Hamburg . 1 747 ^ . p " . 7 P 3 there is a story that Crellius reuen |^ ed of his errors towards the close o fJxw
life , and gave clear proofs of unfeigned pen 1 tence . 1 h is Paul BTerGje-r * A f cbV deacon of Harmspruck , tninks | Mjj . improbable j ^ see th ^ same ^ W pr ^ l ^ S , p . 345 , ) because , while fiV w ^ i $ & fa ' ding at Amstercjannil Crell ^ pa ' m ^ W year 1731 * mjbrmeij |) im tha . t Jiri poi ^ J s ^ f ^ fOT rBffi 8 ' w $ '§ & c $ ) ft brated ; ScnaafY , . ^ js behef . of . ^ m ^ SS ^^ iili W ' ' fii W ^» fe « t Was in doubt concerning them . But in the same Work for 174 &
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ffores jbr the Monthly I&posifory , fr y Mr . Fr . Adr . Pander Kemp . 6 $ &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1816, page 639, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2458/page/11/
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