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wsy tte niore should we magnify lAee , % he more should ^ e deject ourselves ior tfeee ^ Uii £ o Thee , with the Father , and the Holy Ghost , be all honour and glory , jiajy and for ever . Amcn . hlaithew li . ^ orks , it . 222 . " Was tlits , then , thy * fr £ t tiair ' acfe , ft Saviour , that ihoti Wrotightm in £ ana , bf fe<tete ? At « i co&Kl thtere fed fc greater miracife tii&n this ; that , fo&Vfcig feeek thirty years , tfeou didst no miracle till * w * w ? That thy divinity did hMe itself thus long in fle&h ? ... We silly wretches * if we feaVe but a dram of vktoe * are
ready to set it out to the best -show ; fchon ^ , vfrho receivedst not the spirit b $ rit&cmtre , wonldst content thyself with a , witling obscurity ; &nd conceialest that power that i » ade tfre world * in the roof of a hniftfon breast , in a cottage of N-azareth . "—P . 247 ' .
I sliali close the extracts from Bislrop Hall with two eloquent pas ^ gefc from his Devotioaal Works : < € O mercy , tr&nsce&ding the a& * ftir&-tion of frfi the ^ Itfrloua sprits of hteliven , that God would be incarnate ! Surely , that all those celestial powers should be
redacted to efther worms or nothing , that all this goodly frame of creation should run back into tts first confusion , or be reduced to one « idgle &tom ~ it is not so high a woncter , as for God to become man : those changes , though the highest nature is capable of , are yet bat of
things finite ; this is of an infinite subject , with which the most excellent of nnite things can hold oo proportion . Oh * the / great mystery of godliness ; God manifested in the fieih ^ seen of angels I f hose heavenly s ^ piiits hacl , ever since they wer ^ made , « een his most giorious
veity 7 and adored him as their onmipoleiit Creator ; but to see that God of spirits invested with ilesh , was such a wonder as had been enough , if their nature could have been capable of it , to
have astonished even glory itself ; and whether to see him that was their God so humbled below themselves , or to see humanity thus advanced above them * " selves , were the greater wonder to them , they only know /'
"It was your foolish niisprision * O ye ignorant Lystrians , that you took the servants for the Master : here only is it vferijfted * which you supposed , that © od is come dcftvn to us in the likeness of m ' an , toitd afe man conversed with men .
" What a disparagement do we think it ivas ior thfeigrettt moitorch of Babylon , for Seven years tdggther , as a beast to cbnvers ^ with « the toeasfs of the field ! Y&v alaa , i > ea » ts and * riien are fellow creatures ; mUde of one earth ; drawlug
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in the sktne mr ; rettirma ^ , knr tfeeir l > odMy part * to the „ Same dust ; symbolizhig in many qualities , and in some mutually transcending each other ' s : so as here may seem to he some terms of a tolerable . proportion ; since many men &fe hi aispdsmon too like unto beasts Kfrd mtae teasts at-e in outward shape sdmewhat like utotb * ien : bftt ibr Mm ^ th ^ at was , and is , frbd blessed fdr ever EteVnfrl , Infinite , incf 0 mp * - ^ hensible , to put * oa &esh , a ^ d become a man amongst fB ' en , Was to stoop below all possible disparities tha * heavten tmd eanh can afford . O Saviour , the lower thine
abasement was for us > the higher was the pitch of thy divine love to us ?'—Works , Vl . S 81-, 23 £ w u With what less than ravishment of spirit can 1 behold
leverlastin ^ , clothed With gtory and majesty , wrapped m fegs ! ITiee , who HBest lueaveh a& 5 eaii-lh with the majesty K > f thj glory , Cradled In a , i « mngser \ "Hiee , Who Wt the Cr@d of power , fleeing in thy naotfrer ' s arias froia the rage o"f a weak
« aan ! Thee / , who -art the God of Israel , driven to be nursed out of the bosom of thy church ! Thee > who madest the heaven of heavens , busily working in the homely trade of a foster-father ! Thee , who comirfandest the devils to their ch&iiis , transported and tempted ¦ with that- foul spirit ! Thee , wlio art God ^ ll-sufficiefct , -exposed to hunger ,
¥ hir # tj WefeHftes ' s , danger , contempt , pove ^ ty ^ reviles , scour ^ ngs , persecution i Thee , ^ vho arto the just -J ^ dge of all the world , accused and -coftdeinned ! Thee > who art tlie Lord of life , dying upon the tree of shame aivd curse I Thee , who
art the Eternal Son of God , struggling with thy Father ' s wrath I Thee , who hast saidij , / and my Father are one , Sweating drops of blood in thine agony ;
atnd cryfng out on the cross , My God , my "Gad , why ha& thou forsaken me ? Thee , Vfoo hast the keys of hell and of death , lying sealed up in another man ' s grave !" *~ AYorks , VL 233 . ( To be continued . )
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64 £ The Petdrbormgh Questions .
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¦ ¦¦^¦ — Sir , I * T has occasioned me , and perhaps others among yoiir readers , some sta-jpfise and disappomtinent to peruse
the Review of the Peterborough questions , which appe ^ rea in the Monthly H llepos ) itory for September Cp . fi ^ 2 ) . Regarding the conduct of Dr . Marsh as in tbe bi ^ heat degree pyerbearing , and considering him fts openly at war with every 4 ftiflg hoiwst * uit m * manly , in the Establiaiied CUurOT , *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1821, page 642, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2506/page/10/
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