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u Lastly , remember that you have the treasure of the gospel in earthen vessels , ' and learn to entertain a humble opinion of yourselves , and of whatever ministerial talents you may be favoured to possess . Were the teachers of religion at any time of
disposed to think highly themselves , the many infirmities of the body , and the passions and affections of the mind , to which they find themselves u « der a humiliating subjection , may sufficiently convince them of their mistake . If ever you feel disposed to grow vain on any
imaginary conceit of human accomplishments , let it be sufficient to damp your vanity to consider , on the one hand , that these things alooe , and separate from the Divine blessing , are nothing ; and , on the
other , that God has so little regard to any of these things , that it is expressly said he committed the treasure to earthen vessels , to simple and unlearned persons , * that the excellency of the power may be of himself , and not of men . '
" If , then , in the public services of God ' s house , or in your more private ministrations , you should be enabled to affect the hearts of your hearers with the excellence of the truths and the
obligation of the duties of the gospel—if , from these convictions , you should have the happiness of seeing them brought off from any evil habits , and led to form and execute good resolutions—if you should
be successful in engaging them to make a life of faith and holiness their hearty choice , or in assisting them to make greater advances in such a life ; in comforting their hearts and animating their resolutions by the prospects set before them in the gospel—give eternal praise to the God whom you are to serve . The
truths with which you shall thus have enlightened their minds and affected their hearts , he hath revealed by Jesus Christ ; the hopes with which you shall have encouraged them are founded on his promises . Render to him , therefore , all your thanksgivings , and implore his continued imued
assistance and blessinsr on vour assistance and blessing on your ministrations for the further improvement of yourselves and of your charge . "May it please the Father of the spirits of all flesh to bless you with the enjoyment Qi those silent commendations of their growth in piety and all virtue , which you should
always consider as your best and most honourable praise I And when outvoices shall be silenced , as our fathers ' nave been , and our ministrations ended n rteath , may you long continue to dee your hearers exemplify in their practice « e truths and precepts of the gospel ; «« m may this be your joy and crown of X lcln £ the day of the Lord Jesus !
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IntelUgen € e *— -Smith € rn and Eastern Unit&riun \ Societies . 481
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Eastern Unitarian Society . Th £ Ninth Anniversary of this Society was held at Yarmouthf on Wednesday and Thursday , the UTth and 28 th of June . Mr . Toms preached on Wednesday evening at the Old Meeting fttttn Thus i . 9 : " Holding fast the faithful Word *
as he hath been taught , that he may be able by sound doctrine both to e&hort and to convince the gaiwsayeite . " Ttoe object of the ' - VeutftftHtar preacher was to shew that the eplxteet so * mdy through applied to doctrine ^ and by toocfctfu d ivi nes
exclusively used irt' eoMTetfioh with thfciP own peculiar opiuioiw , was employed by the apoaUe to deecriber . the uprightness of a mau' % conduct , rather than the ^ peculiaritte& of Ms oreti&l Oft Ttetrfcd&y rtiofnittg the Stervffcfc t * 6 * tfpen *** ® f Mt . M ® $% ey < md the prayet * wnsr &&i \< e * e& > fry M *\
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SvutkerH ' Unkavfa *< SMi&y . The Aunual Meeting of the Southern Unitarian Society w ^ is held at Poole * in Dorsetshire , on' Wednesday , June 2 Y . Dr . Thomas Rees delivered a very argumentative and impressive discourse before the Society , from Isaiah xl . 25 : " To whom then will ye liken me , or shall I be equal , saith the Holy One ?"
In order , as he said * to avoid the charge of misrepresentation , he , first of all , shewed , by quotations from the Articles and formularies of the Church of England , what is the received and ' orthodox opinion concerning the Trinity , and then , by contrasting together the different parts of the doctrine , he proved them to be in *
consistent , and absolutely incompatible with each other , as well as contrary to the grand principle which runs through the Scriptures both of the Old and New Testament , of the absolute unity and unrivalled supremacy of the one God the Father . The members of the Society and their friends dined together at the
Antelope Inn : after dinner several gentlemen addressed the company on the important objects which the Society was Formed to promote ; and it was particularly enforced on their attention , the propriety of seconding , by petitions to the Legislature , the attempts which are expected to lye , made in the next session of Parliament .
for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts , and for relieving Dissenters from the necessity of joining in those parts of the Marriage Ceremony which do violence to their religious opinions . The next Annual Meeting was appointed
to be held at'Newport , Isle of Wight , when the tlev . J . B . Bristowe , of Ringwood , is expected to preach before the Society * Mr . Thomas Cooke , Juh ., of Newport , was appointed Secretary and Treasurer for the year ensuing .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 431, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/51/
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