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bread broken and the wine poured out , are not eaten and drank at supper time , bat in general at or about the middle of the day . There is no common meal to give occasion for these blessings . It is not a family rite , but a congregational service . Now for all these deviations from the first
institution the Christians have nothing to defend themselves . Their whole appeal is to the traditions of men , and these traditions differ widely among the different sects ; some sitting at
table , others kneeling before it , others converting the table into an altar and adoring the bread arid the cup ; and in some places this rite is made a passport to an office under government . In such a state of confusion
upon this subject , I should be very sorry to hear of a Unitarian minister introducing his rite into the religious service of the congregation . * ft is enough that they , who can believe that a piece of bread or a glass of wine drank in the middle of the dav is
commemorative of our Saviour ' s act at his last Supper , should enjoy the facility of doing so ; Kut to obtrude their bread and wine on others , who have « o inclination to take it , is by no means consistent' with the liberty With which Christ has made us free . W . FREND .
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prove the personality 6 f the Deity > It is from the indications presented in his works , of his possessing the
properties , and performing the acts , of a , person , " This he illustrates by a quotation from Paley ' s Natural Theology , in which contrivatice and design are urged as a proof of personality .
This mode of proving the personality of a being may be very proper in the case to which it is applied by PaleyV but would be very improper as applied to the case under consideration . The case to which the Archdeacon applies it , isf to the discovery
of the existence t > f the great first cause of all things , of . whom and of 'ivhpse existence we are supposed to have no knowledge by revelation ; or otherwise ; except what may be obtained from the deductions of reason exercising itself upon the visible creation , by
which a proof of the existence of such a Being may be obtained ; and from the contrivance and design discernable in the wbrksf of that Befng , a proof also that he is an intelligent Being ; possessing those properties which are evidences of personality * This would
be jast reasoning , as applied to the first cause of all things , which must be uncaused , and consequently selfexistent and independent , and to which intelligence and personality must be ascribed ; but should revelation come in and inform him , who had thus reasoned from the works of
creation to the existence and personality of their great author , that all these works were the operations of his handy of his fingers * and of the breath of his mouth , that his hand had laid the foundations of the earth , that the heavens were the work of his
fingers , and that all the host of them were made by the breath of his mouth ; would the ascription of these works , ( containing in them such marks of contrivance and design , ) to the hand , the fingers and the breath of God , lead him to conclude , that they were
possessed of proper personality ? Certainly it would not - he would ristu * rally have referred the contrivance and design apparent in those works to hint whose handf fingers and breaik are said to have performed them , and would consider them as evidence of ^ personality . But had that person previously known that ^ wf -was the imker of thosfc ^ orktf , all hid reasoning
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Idft MriMarsom on the Deity oftJieJffoly iVpmf ^ Letierll .
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letters by Mr . Marsom in Reply to Mr < Wardlaius Arguments for the Deity of the Holy Spirit . Letter II . Sir , Feb . % 18 IB . MR . WARDLAW enters upon the discussion of the personality
of the Holy Spirit , by stating what lie means by a person , and what he conceives to be the proper evidence of personality . " By a person , " he says , * 4 we mean that which possesses personal properties : —and the only legitimate , I might say , the only possible
proof of personality , in the present case , or , indeed , in any case , is the proof of the possession of such properties : and , in the particular instance before us , the only ground upon which
this can at all be ascertained , is the ascription of such properties to the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures of truth . " * Even in the department of natural religion" he adds , " how is it that we J *** Vr——»—rr-fnTr ** - —— ¦ * i - ¦ ' - - i * - * f -- - ¦; , - ^ u ^ jmi ¦ w » | ' - ¦ * V * & 280 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/28/
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