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550 Brief Notes on the Bible . No . XXIV .
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inclines to that more extensive interpretation for which I am pleading * in his paraphrase he employs less hesitatirig language than in his note *
Eph . iv . 26 , ° Be ye angry , and sin not . iv . 31 , Let all angj ^ r be put avtfay from you . "—How are these passages to be reconciled to each other ? I coftceive , that the apostle when he says , Be ye angry and sin not , "
has the act in his view—when he says , " Let all anger be put away from you , "—the habit . That anger is not essentially and absolutely unlawful , appears from Mark HI . 5 ; where we read that our Lord looked round , on
his accusers , " with anger , being grieved for the hardness of their hearts . " " Anger , " remarks Hallett , ( Notes ,
&c . I . 130 , ) "in the New Testament , is never spoken of with allowance , but in superiors towards their inferiors . ^ r this point he at grefct length endeavours to illustrate and establish
( I . 129 , fee , II . 358 ) : ahd such is the jfrinciple oh tvliich he aims at e&plaifoing both the prohibition &iid the concession which I have quoted . The observations of the very able
Atttotator , are ingenious , without being conclusive . For Luke xv . 28 , ifc a proof that anger can , in fact , be indulged by an inferior towards his elders . The older of the two
brothers , in the par&ble of the prodigal son , " was angry ( copyicr&fj ) , and would not go in : therefore came his father out and entreated him / ' We know ,
besides , that children , youth , and even adults , often feel anger , and sometimes not unreasonably , at those who , nevertheless , are of the same rank and standing with themselves .
Faley * s excellent definition of anger and his masterly observations upon the act and habit , * make it unnecessary for me to pursue the subject N . .
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Brief Notes on the Bible , No . XXIV . God is Love ! 1 John iv , 8 , 16 . HIS declaration , one of the most Theart-encouraging in the Scriptures , comes ia the very teeth of Calvinism , which teaches that 4 € God ? M . Phllos . B . iii . Pt . ii . Ch , vi . vii .
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i 3 wrath , " unappeasable eafe&pt by a& infinite atonement ; although nothing can be clearer thah that ttiftn , beittg a finite cre&tiirg , incapable of afty thing infinite , cannot commit an infinite offence . We are required , itt devout and cordial sympathy with this text , to love God .
Dr , Young has tvell observed , €€ Love and love only is the loan for love . " And our Apostle has very appositely said , ( ver . 19 , ) fC We love him because he first loved Us * No impossibilities are enjoined upon mortals .
But , it is impds&ible to love an invisible being * without a feed * utihesitating persuasion that he loveth us . Who * arid what description of persons , are thtis required to love GotI ?
All and every to whose kriow ^ dge , through the medkttn of the ^ osjiel , the requisition tnay e&tehd : in other word 8 , and in the course of ages , all mankind . Then the injunction itnpHe 9 his utii- < versai love , co * exteii » ivfc with the love that he i ^ titfiffcs .
Not his love far a class , impiously denominated the ele&t * If there exist a ttiaft in the slightest degree doubtful of OocPs love to him , ihdividfi&lly , vvhb ydt professes to love God 5 1 pronounce him an tfiiimposing ,
indeed , because &h ufecredifed , hypodrite ; his profession being contrary td nature , to that iinttitttabkt nature implanted in him by talfc Creator . In that man observe the inseparable union of cant With insincerity ^
It has been itnputed to Umtarianiam- —as a beacon , I presume * to hapless mottals tending thitherward — that it is a cold and heartless profession , that its meagre faith supplies no cheering hopes , no consolation upon a death-bed-What ! no consolation in the firm
aSsuraiice that " God h Lov ^ " that our voucher for it is unitiapeachable 9 that his tender mercies prevail over and pervade ftH his wofks 5 and in no instance so eminently , &b iti the
paternal mission of Jesus , to certify a resurrection from the death impending ? No consolation that we ftffe pttss ' rng into the hands of " 0 m Father who is in heaven 1 " into hte hand ^> Whose
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1824, page 530, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2528/page/18/
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