On this page
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
ap preciate the tete nature of sin , or the value of salvation * As to God ' s being " , in any possibility , a tyrant , it is out of the question . None of our people think him so . He has pro--vided a fall remedy , and nothing is wanted but a willingness to apply for
it . This annihilates all idea of tyranny . The tyranny exists in sin only . Tliese exhibitions warn us to flee from the wrath to come , and do not beguile us into it . You write and speak as if our thoughts and feelings would have an influence upon these matters . If it were possible that I could cause the damnation of any one , I should be terrified . I would confidently offier , instrumentally , the means of grace to every one , telling him or her they may
have it if they wiil . Say what you will , these matters ought to be left Implicitly with God . He has pro * mised to clear up every thing , and make us plead guilty , and justify him at the day of judgment .
We are led away from ourselves , but must come home at last . A time will come when , by Divine illumina * . tion , we shall be given to see how we have hardened our own hearts . While we regard our own state , we are look . ing to what , in our opinion , God ought
to do with those , of whose true condition we can be no judges at present . Let us look to ^ 'ourselves and try our ^ selves , and compare ourselves and our experience with that which is laid down by Christ and the apostles . You
told ine to envisage the subject . I have awfully obeyed your advice , sub ^ nutting to it as a mandate ; but you do not reciprocate . I ask , but cannot compel , nor even persuade you to en-Tisage your own state . You evade ,, you turn your thoughts , and set about doing God ' s work , instead of doing
what lie has commanded you . " Examine our ownselves . " I bring myself in with trembling and anguish , and am constrained to say , " Search me , O Uod , and lighten mine eyes . ' Give Die a new heart and a new spirit ; and klien I will , l > y thy all-powerful ena-Mings , perform every thing thou
requires t . 1 anticipate your assent to this proposition , that the more fully we sliall be enlightened by the Holy Spirit , and created anew in Christ Jesus , the better qualified we shall be to judge of the matters under discussion , In the
Untitled Article
meanwhile let us leave them in unerring hands . I have since had a glance of the pleasing scene which will be presented to your view when ycru personally realize , in a fuller degree , the blessings of the gospel . N * [ To be continued . ]
Untitled Article
voi , . xix . 2 x
Untitled Article
. ^ arm jO&n tefrvefojf i Mr . iLe Uriels tik Mefify . 837
Untitled Article
Trereife 9 Sir , June 8 , 1824 . MR . WORSLEY sent a statement to your Magazine , in which my character was implicated ^ and his statement \ rets so incorrect
that I made complaint ; and this complaint he calls a desire to keep the matter " a-going . " I wish that his apology had not been accompanied with this unfair remark . However , enough of this . These things speak for themselves- According to such reasoning , a man who defends himself when attacked , is guilty of a riot .
I now beg leave to refer to a letter in the preceding part , signed A Friend to Inquiry . This gentleman had asserted that Unitarians may be , and often are consistent members of the Established Church ; and Mr . Worsley replied , that f * such a sentiment is destructive of all honest and
open profession , and ail fair prospect of the advancement of truth . " I had occasion to address a letter to the Friend to Inquiry on this very point , and I shall be much obliged if you will give xny sentiments , which agree with those of Mr . Worsley , a place in
your Repository . I regret to see in the Friend to Inquiry' ' s letter , remarks , which again call forth the matter in dispute : he observes , that the gentleman was attacked by our clergy , and removed from a certain
honorary post , on the ground of his not being a member of the Church . But of what nature was this honorary post ? It was the Presidentship of a Society formed for the express purpose of promoting the doctrines and views of the Established Church , which
views tins gentleman avowed his resolution to thwart . ( See p . 142 of the Repository for March . ) By the expression of an ' * honorary post , " the whole truth is not told , and I am sorry to be again under the necessity of referring to the subject . I am sorry also to see that this writer now avows a different motive for his defence of
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/17/
-