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^ satisfy his justice /* and render him propitious to penitent sinners . Several of the above expressions will be recognized by some of my readers , as having been introduced into a speech delivered by the
chairman * of a meeting of a religious tract society , held at Newcastle , April 10 , 1817 , as detailed in the Society ' s Report for last year , p . 8 . I wish not to have any dispute about them with the excellent speaker ; I have much
greater pleasure in passing on to the sentiment which follows them , and in which I desire most cordially to join him , " that , with regard to opposite doctrines , we would ever distinguish between them and the-persons who hold them . I trust there breathes not that
human being , to whom we bear any other feeling than that of perfect goodwill ; and to whom we would not the more willingly manifest our Christian love , if his conduct to us were the offspring of directly contrary sentiments and feelings . " This
is said , and I am sure it is said from the heart , by one who , whatever may be his creed , breathes all the spirit of the good Samaritan , and , like our common Master , goes about doing good / ' I feel a pleasure , and , as far as a Christian can be justified in using
such a word , a pride , in co-operating with him in many schemes of benevolence ; I admire the zeal and activity which he displays in many , in which t cannot co-operate : I ,
therefore , most cordially wish him God speed in all his labours of love ; and have no desire to have any other contest with him than shall best improve the opportunities of usefulness which may respectively be open to each .
But if my amiable friend would see who they are , who , in our opinion , * ' utigod the Deity , ' let him consider well the following extracts . The first is from the Sermons of the Rev . David Grant , formerly a minister in this town , and afterwards ( when minister of Ochiltrie , N , B . ) chairman of the committee which
conducted the prosecution ef the venerable Dr . M ^ Gill , of Ayr ; in p . £ 7 of his first volume , printed in Newcastle , speaking of the sufferings of Chi 1 st , he says , ** should we take a
* C . N > Wawu , Esq .
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view of his last and most trying moments , when death , arrayed in a thousand terrors , appeared in view , when the malice of men , the rage of devils , and the wrath of his heavenly Father , seemed , with combined force , to
overwhelm him in ruin ; when the storm seemed to gather apace— -when every rueful circumstance intruded itself into his fancy-r-when that important moment , big with the darkest woe , the roost important registered in the
annals of time , in which divine justice was to he full ?/ satisfied , and an everlasting atonement made for the sins of men , approached , how did he behave , — with more than human magnanimity did he drink the cwp of his Father ' s wrath , and taste all the bitterness of 1
death He proceeds I ' , p . S 1 , hpiow author , on this subject , expresses himself in the following emphatic terms : * God , when the time was come that Christ should suffer , did , as it were , say * O all ye waves of my incensed justice , now swell as high as heaven ,
and go over his soul and body ; sink him to the bottom \ let him go , like Jonah , his type , into the belly of hell 1 Come all ye storms that I have reserved for this day of wrath , beat upon him 1 Go , justice , put him upon the rack ; torment him in every part , till all his bones be out of joint , and his heart within him be melted as
wax in the midst of his bowels I " Surely this pious author had never learned to " fear the Lord and his goodness" 11 os . iii . 5 . My second example shall be taken from * ' Sacramental Addresses , by the Rev . Henry Belfrage , Minister of the Associate Congregation at Falkirk , " p .
79-* ' In this day of his fierce anger , the Lord afflicted his Anointed . If man can create such pain and sorrow when he punishes , what cannot that arm produce , the thunders of whose power none can understand ? Never had
vindictive justice such a victim : and the guilt of the ancient world , which called on it to open the windows of heaven , and to break up the fountains of the deep , was not to be compared to that of the elect of all ages and countries . That fury by which the rocks are thrown down and the ocean is dried , is directed in all its violence against our Saviour .
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Mr . Turner on the Representations of the Deity * 6 iS
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 613, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/13/
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