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and office , without , detracting from the essential goodness or , mercy of God . "IV . 65 , 66 . , t .. ; . _ Sermon XL of Vol . IV ., on the " Scruples of Well-disposed Minds , with regard to the Lord's Supper , " is a very seasonable and useful sacramental lecture . Instead of fencing the Lord ' s table with commiaations , as some of his brethren in the ministry are constrained to do by their
Directory or Rubric , this truly evangelical pastor plants around it , the invitations and promises of the New Covenant , and shews the beams of mercy that irradiate this g < feast of charity . " He censures the inquisitorial spirit which bars Christian communion with confessions of faith and declarations of
conversion and " experience , " and asserts the true Protestant Dissenting principle of the equal liberty of all Christians as brethren under one Master :
" Such restrictions are undoubtedly unscriptural , and , therefore , they are unjustifiable . Nor can any plead that Christian churches are societies formed by voluntary compact , and that the members of them may introduce and establish laws for the admission of those who are to
unite with them . The terms of Christian communion are immutably fixed by the Lord and Head of the church , to whom this right belongs . None can be allowed to invade his province ; and , to contract the avenues into his church within
narrower bounds than those which he has prescribed , by imposing conditions of communion which he has not enjoined , is , in a high degree , presumptuous and culpable . Those who regularly attend the other institutions of religion , and whose conduct is , in the main tenour of it , answerable to their visible profession ,
have an undoubted right of admission to the Lord ' s table ; nor enn such be refused without trespassing on the empire of Christ , and on the liberty of our fellowchristians . So far should we be from raisins ; obstacles in their way , from discouraging the practice of this duty , and from imposing tests which the Scriptures no where require , that we should invite them to
with us , and receive with pleasure all who manifest an inclination to associate with us in the observance of this institution . "—IV . 202 , 203 . Here , contrary to our first design , * ye must pause for the present month ; tor we perceive that some of iMJfefla amiiig Sermons are entitled to more ampler notice than we can give in this
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Review . —Dr . MorelVs Sernwiton Christian Worship . 618
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Art . V . —Christian Worship : A *' Sermonpreached < it the Openingof ' the New-Road Chapel , Brighton , Aug 20 th , 1820 . By Jdlin Morell , LL . D . 8 vo . pp . 28 . Brighton , printed arid sold by Leppard ; and sold by R . Hunter , London .
rWiHE erection of the elegant chapel JL at Brighton for the worship of the One God , the Father , is not the least interesting proof of the prevalence of Unitarianism ; and this consecration sermon , by the learned minister of the chapel , is worthy of the occasion . Dr . Morell maintains thafc
Unitarian is the only pure Christian worship , on the following grounds : " 1 . It is contrary to the received use and acknowledged meaning of words in every instance but that under dispute , to say , that two or more persons can be comprehended in one and the same being . "—P . 9 .
" 2 . In the Trinitarian doctrine , God is more than one person ; and though it is added there is notwithstanding but one God , no unity is ascribed to the Divine Being , which is intelligible by the human understanding . "—Pp . 9 , 10 .
" 3 . My third defence is this . The object of Jewish and Christian worship must be acknowledged to be the same . We know , said Christ of the Jews , what we worship ; and on this subject be never professed to be the teacher of a new revelation . In like manner his apostles
in their addresses to the Jews declared , that , in common with their countrymen , they worshiped the God of their fathers ; and , that the God of their fathers was one God , and that their worship was strictly Unitarian , requires no proof , while the law and the prophets are yet in our hand . "—P . 11 .
. ** 4 . Since we believe God to be pure spirit , infinitely removed from the nature of those substances which are apprehended by our senses , the proper object of our religious worship is a being purely spiritual . But man , —no man is or can be such a being ; and that our Lord was
truly a man , though artfully denied by the ancient Gnostics , against whom the Apostle John wrote , is now , and always has been confessed by all his followers . The inference is certain , that by our Lord's own declaration , that God is a Spirit , Jesus is not the proper object of Christian worship . "—P . 12 . In an animated strain the preacher
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 613, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/45/
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