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seem extraordinary , that , with the prescience which Jesus had of his impending JEate , and of its connexion with his miteion / coupled with his own frequent allusions to it , he should hare titioned his ather to avert it
pe r . This observation contemplates the simple humanity of Jesus , and ascribes no impossibility to die failure of his nerves , and consequent submission of his feelings to the consideration of his Father : in the resources of whose
divine intellect he might hope that some consistent mode of dispensing with the extremity in prospect would be found , as in the instance of the enjoined sacrifice of Isaac , which might be floating in his mind . But if the professors of orthodoxy
should be strenuous for retaining the narrative , and I don't suppose that any would be inclined to part with it , forming , as it does , so prominent a feature of their Liturgy , I would join issue with them , and ask them whether
it be possible to reconcile the prayer in the garden with the divinity of Christ ? Who , upon that hypothesis , must have been aware of the utter absurdity of such a prayer , in contravention of what himself , as one of their Hol y Trinity , had pre-ordained should be the fate of " the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world /* BREVIS .
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November 4 , 1820 . Essay on the Progress of Laws , Internetl Policy , the Sciences and Arts , Religious Knowledge and Religious Liberty , in the reign of his late Majesty .
En quanta sese laudis aperit area ! Provost George IT seems impossible to fix on a period equally signalized with the last sixty years by the rich though not unalloyed blessings of civilization , by the advancement of those objects which
principally contribute to the happiness of private and public life . With the ytew of illustrating this remark , I shall lightly sketch a few of the events of the reign of George the Third . On the political changes and measures of his government , on the conflicts of arms and [ the issues of battles , I am silent ^ impartial history will record and estimate them ; I turn to brighter scenes and more cheering topics : I
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confine myself to facts of which I cane speak with pleasure arid approbation . This monarch had not long been seated oil the throne before he was pleased to declare that ** he looked upon f A * independence and uprightness of the Judges ; as essential tfe the impartial administration of justice '; as : one of the best securities of the ri g hts and liberties of his subjects ; ana
asmost conducive to thie honour of the crown /* Accordingly , by the stkttite * of 1 Geo . Ill- c . 23 , enacted at the * earnest recommendation of the king himself from the throne , these bigo * magistrates are continued in their of-
fices during their good behaviour / notwithstanding any demise of the crown , ( which was formerly held immediately to vacate their seats , ) and their ftift salaries are absolutely secured to them during the continuance of their coinmissions . * And they Mill best appreciate the motives , the tendency and
the effects of this provision , who contrast the state of the judicial bench throughout the deceased Sovereign ' s reign with the actions and characters of many of the judges beneath the sceptre of the Stuarts , and tvho recollect that for sixty years scarcely one of these venerable men has fallen under
the animadversion and displeasure of the Legislature * The purity of the ermine has been almost unsullied . Indeed , there is no civil privilege for which we have stronger reasons to be grateful than the fearle&fr , the dignified and the equal administration of justice ; especially in its supreme
departments . In the sixth year of the late reign the issuing of general warrants was declared illegal by a vote of the House of Commons : f m the ninth an act was passed that removed a very injurious barrier which had long subsisted
in claims of property between the crown and the subject ; % m an < ^ at a more recent period , and in cine very interesting point , the powers and prerogatives of juries were beneficially recognized , and , in the opinion of soriae persons , enlarged . An act to remove doubts respecting the function * of ju ~
* Blackstone ' s Comniehtartes , &c . ( 15 tfcu Ed . ) 1 . 267 . ' * - f * b . FV . 291 , -Note . % Ib . I . 247 , JNtitra .
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Essay on the Reign of George I Hi G&fy
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 647, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/19/
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