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but one remedy- € t I grant , " says your correspondent , " ¦ that these doubts subside when on taking a more enlarged and dispassionate survey of the world , we are enabled to discern the tendency of all events to produce a progressive amelioration of the state of society . "
Reason and scripture agree in assuring * us that under the government of a just and holy God , vice iiiust produce misery ; a full conviction of this grand principle is essential to our improvement and usefulness , and
even the painful feelings which at times arise out of this state of things , are adapted to be useful in establishing within us a horror of vice , and prompting us to efforts for its banishment from the world . Reason and scripture ( reasonably
Understood ) encourage us also to believe that under the government of a wise and good Being , all the evil which exists will be ultimately overruled and rendered conducive to universal good . A full conviction of this grand principle is essential , and is sufficient to our peace and joy .
A practical persuasion that the Divine Being is carrying on a vast scheme which will issue in the welfare of all his creatures , and that this scheme is to be accomplished by the diffusion of holiness and the
destruction of sin , will make us at present ** Secure to be as blest as we can bear /* and will prepare us for a felicity which eye hath not seen , nor ear heard , '' and which it hath not entered into the mind of man to conceive . G . B . W .
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536 Ancient Use oftheword * "' Worship •"
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Sir , Gray ' s Inn . IN the explanations given of the various passages in the New Testament , where worship is said to have been addressed to Jesus Christ , or any other than the One God the Father , it has been usual to shew not
only that the expressions in the original were applicable to those acts of respect and reverence which the custom of eastern countries rendered to persons of superior rank or
acquirements , but also that there is no reason to conclude from our translators having adopted the word " worship , *' that they understood the terms in a more limited sense as referring to that
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Sir , Aug . 18 , 1824 . IN reading the pages of the Monthly Repository , I have often been compelled to think that great misconception , erroneous statement , and of
course inconsequential arguing are found in the productions of some of your correspondents , when they assail the system of religion usually called Evangelical , Orthodox , or Calvinistic .
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high species of adoration which is due to the Deity alone . Various instances have accordingly been brought forward establishing the latitude of signification borne by the word " worship , " about the period when those translators : lived . I have , however , lately met with what appears to me an excellent illustration of the ancient use of the English word , and which , as I do not recollect ever to hare seen it noticed as illustrative of the passages
in question , may , perhaps , be considered not unworthy a place in your Miscellany . It occurs in Lord Coke ' s Commentary on Littleton , a work nearly contemporary with our authorized translation of the Scriptures , and in the hands of every lawyer .
In . the text of Littleton , Sect . Ixxxv . the mode of performing the feudal service of homage is thus described in Norman French : ¦— " Car quant le tenant ferra homage a son seignior , il serra discinct , et son test discover ,
et son seignior seera , et le tenant genulera devant luy sur ainbideux genues , et tiendra ses maines extendes et joyntes ensemble enter les maines le seignior , , et issint dirra : Jeo deveigne vostre home de cest jour en avant de vie et de member , et de terrene honor / 9 &c . ; which Lord Coke translates , € i For when the tenant shall make homage to his lord , he shall be ungirt , and his head uncovered , and his lord shall sit , and the tenant shal kneele before him on
both his knees , and hold his hands joyntly together betweene the hands of his lord , and shall say thus : I become your man from this day forward of life and limbe , and of earthly
worship , " olc . z and his comment is simply this " De terrene honor . " " Expressed by kneeling at the feet of his lord . " An example more in point can hardly be desired . E .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1824, page 536, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2528/page/24/
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