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A Sermon preached at the Cathedral of York , on Sunday , March 28 , before the Judges of the Northern Circuit , by the Rev . Sydney Smith , Chaplain to the High Sheriff , Walter Fawkes , Esq . JTrom The Morning Herald *]' cc Sittest tJiou here to judge me after the law , and coinmandest thou me to be smitten contrary to the law ?"—Acts xxiii . 3 . iTH theSe bold WOrds St
'" \ m ? v Paul repressed the unjust violence of that ruler who would have silenced his arguments , and extinguished his zeal for the Christian faith : knowing ; well the misfortunes which awaited him , prepared for deep
and various calamity , not ignorant of the violence of the Jewish multitude , not unused to suffer , not unwilling to die , he had not prepared himself for the monstrous spectacle of perverted justice 9 but loosing that spirit to whose fire and firmness we owe the
very existence df the Christian faith , lie burst into that bold rebuke which brought back the extravagance of power under the controul of law , and branded it with the feelings of shame : * Sittest thou here to judge me after the law , and cominandest thou me to be smitten contrary to the law ?'
" I would observe that in the Gospels , and the various parts of the New Testament , the words of our Saviour and of St . Paul , when they contain any opinion , are always to be looked upon as lessons of wisdom to us , however incidentally they may have been
delivered , and however shortly they may have been expressed . As their words were to be recorded by inspired writers , and to go down to future ages , nothing can Iiave been said without reflection and design . Nothing ia to
be lost ; every thing is to be studied a great moral lesson is often conveyed in a few words . Itead slowly , think deeply , let every word enter into your soul , for it was intended for your « oul .
** I take these words of St . Paul as a condemnation of that man who smites contrary to the law ; as a praise ® k that man who judges according to the law ; as a religious theme upon
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the importance of human justice to the happiness of mankind : and if it be that theme , it is appropriate to this place , and to tUe solemn public duties of the past and the ensuing week , over which some here present will preside , at which many here present will assist , and which almost all
hare present will witness . " I will discuss , then , the importance of judging according to the law —or , in other words , of the due administration of justice upon the character and happiness of nations . And in so doing , I will begin with stating a few of those circumstances which
may mislead even good and conscientious men , and subject them to the unchristian sin of smiting contrary to the law . I will state how that justice is purified and perfected , by which the happiness and character or nations is affected to a good purpose , " I do this with less fear of being
misunderstood , because I I arn speakimr misunderstood , because arn speaking before two great magistrates , who have lived much among us ; and whom —because they have lived much among us—we have all learned to respect and regard , and to whom no man fears to consider himself as accountable ,
because all men see that they , in the administration of their high office , consider themselves as deeply and daily accountable to Go A , " . And let no man say , ' Why teach such things ? Do you think they must not have occurred to those to whom
they are a concern ? ' I answer to this , that no man preaches novelties and discoveries ; the object of preaching is , constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting ; not to supply the defects of human intelligence , but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions * to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/1/
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