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then proceeds to shew that Christian worship should be offered in . sincerity , should be a spiritual service , and should he accompanied by penitence , adorned with charity and enlivened with the hope of immortality .
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diffusion of truth , which he argue ? , 1 st , from no step tvhieh has been made in the r , oad or improvement having e * er been really tost 5 and , 2 ndly ) from the progressive course of Diyine revelations .
Under the first general head , which embraces 3 considerable portion of the sermon , there is the most able defence of zeal for opinions that we remember to have ever read . Tbe argument appears to us irresistible We wish we could draw to it the seri-I ous attention of such Unitarians as stand coldly aloof from all proselyting
measures . Mr . Hincks admits , of course , the innocence of involuntary error , but he contends that it is not the less an evil because it is without criminality . ' * Who ever heard of harmless disease , or doubted the kindness of-removing-it " ?
We may be reduced to a very alarming condition without any thing in our feelings or appearance indicating our disordered state , or leading us to seek a remedy ; but the notion of our health being practically independent of the changes which take place in our bodily frame , so that our
internal structure might be deranged , and our vital organs become unfit for the proper discharge of their functions , without our being the worse for it , would be altogether contradictory and ridiculous . So we are not in general ourselves most easily made sensible of the error of our
sentiments , and it is not always readily and plainly discernible in our conduct ; but it is absolutely impossible that those principles and opinions on which all our actions depend , except so far as they are the mere effects of passion and momentary impulse , should be corrupted or
disordered without our conduct , or the state of our feelings towards God and our neighbour , being really and materially the worse for it . However frequently we may hear the expression employed , there
is in fact no such thing as a merely speculative opinion . Every particular of belief has its appropriate effect , which , so far as it is sincere and lively , it must produce . It may be in some considerable degree modified and controuled by the
interference of other opinions , or it may exist 50 feebly , arid be so little an object of attention and reflection , as to be overpowered by the strength of appetite , passion or transient feeling ; but in all cases certain
it acts , and of course must , to a - tifflUk * " *** beneficial or injurious accordt ^ pSHt U true or false , so that we migtit as rationally expect to find a plant bearing no frttft , m a doptrioc which is capable
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614 Review . ~—Hawks ' s Unitarian Fund Sermon .
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Art . Vl *~ - * The Importance of Religious Ti * uthy and the certainty of its Universal Diffusion . ^ 4 Sermony preached at the Unitarian Chapel ,
in Parliament Court , Artillery Lane , London > on Wednesdayy June 13 , 1821 , before fhe Supporters and Friends of the Unitarian Fund . By William Hincks . 12 mo . pp . 48 . Hunter .
FTT 1 HIS is not a common sermon . M It is forcible in argument and brilliant ia eloquence . In reading it the reflection occurred to us again and again that if the Unitarian Fund
possessed no other claims upon the support of Unitarians , it would be worthy of their patronage on account of its calling out from year to year the talents of a succession of their most able
and most respected ministers . Mr . Hincks ' s text , peculiarly appropriate , is 1 Tim . ii . 4 , Who will have all men to be saved , and to come to the knowledge of the truth ; and he opens his discourse with observing , that he thinks that the words are overstrained
when applied to the condition of mankind in a future state of being . ' * To be saved" seems to him to mean " to participate in the blessings of the Christian religion of whatsoever kind , " and to be equivalent with coming to the knowledge of the truth , only that
this latter expression refers to the means by which the benefits implied in the former , as deliverance from the bondage of a ceremonial law , from the corruption of idolatry and vice and from the fear of death , must be obtained .
Taking up the words in this signification , the preacher proceeds to make some reflections , 1 st , upon the inestimable value of religious truth ; ' 2 ndly , npoa the adaptation of religious Jruth
to the wants of all mankind , and its being freely offered to thera all ; and . « 3 r 41 y , upon the gospel being offered to all then through the instrumentality of those who love it moist warmly and feel it most truly . This leads him to ww&Mw the project of tJbe universal
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 614, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/46/
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