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730 Hints for Sunday-Schools *
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X was punished sacrificially , although he bad no inherent sinne , nor imputed in a proper sense : therefore also may Adam ' s children be punish'd tho' they have no inherent sinne properly so called , but reputative only from a
relative foundation & dangerous inclinations . Consider y when you say , p . 175 , y God judgeth of things as " they are , & doth not punish , men without any desfert in y , y * God's decree did
necessarily require some relative foundation , but y t foundation did not necessitate y decree ; w yet being supposed there is not y same reason of other sinnes , whether Adam ' s or
our next parent ' s , as of y one , as also appears , Rom . v . 16 , as before . Yet I do thinke y * God would not have hazarded so many for y t one sinne , if he had not intended to have seut a Redeemer to make expiation : quaere , whether v sinne might not be
in part a kind of sacramental ( if I may so call it ) instruction to y world of wliat they might justly expect , frbm following actually their own inordinate & wilful appetites , w God foresaw they would doe ffreely of themselves ? as I have said before of y law of Moses as expositorie of y law of
nature I . receive y princi pall thing intended in your second part * viz . y t immediate parents' sinnes may be punished in their children , & I thinke though they were begotten before y fault was committed , for relations '
sake , without any respect to any propagation of a physical or morall qualitie , in semine . Mav not Eve's sinne be said to be imputed to all y women by relation of y sex ? See 1 Tim . ii . 14 ; & we 3 ee it ordinary for parents to blush at y hearing of their children ' s
faults , & others nearly related , even when nothing can be thought to reflect upon y but from relation . I hinted y much of our depraved nature is from immediate parents , ( in my paper , ) in these words , ** & y
wickednesseof y world . " I have heard many wish that parents could see their own pride & passions , &c , in their children , though much . of this is often by ill teaching & example . You chardged
Or . Taylour too bluntly with denieing original ! sinne ; he sayth it is a sinne metonymicaliy , i . e . y effect of sinne & y cause of uia « y . I was told by a ffciebd ; y * B ? . Brourprig-g said hjs
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my part , I thinke to holde ymen ought | b be punished for y consciences in things merely spirituall , where is no civil injury , is a worse heresy than y worst opinion y ever I saw yet concerning originall sinne . Sept . 19 ,
1681-« I t booke deserved to be burnt . Better burn ybookes of heretics than their persons . fear some otherwise good men have a little too much of the furious spirit of antichrist in y . For
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Sm , REJOICE th ^ t the at tention of I your readers has been directed to Sunday-Schools . Their importance well deserves the ronsideratioft of every one who wishes to diminish ignorance
and prejudice , an < i to promote knowledge and universal good-will . My experience of their general adoption widely differs from what Verus mentions ( p . 549 ); but Yorkshire has in that respect furnished an example deserving of imitation by every other part of
the kingdom . As inquiries have been made as to the cheapest method of conducting Sunday-schools , the following hints are suggested . The two first classes are taught by lessons fixed on boards , and suspended so that one board serves for a whole class , which
should not exceed six children : the teacher using a pointer to the letter or word to be learned . The two next classes should be taught in easy lessons from scripture . The meaning should be explained by the teacher ; and before a new lesson is learned , an examination should take place of what was before learn ed . The oldest classes
might write , as a reward for diligence and improvement ; this assists spelling ; and the copies should contain a moral or religious truth , ' which should always be committed to memory ?•—
Those children that have behaved properly , might be periniUet ! to carry home a tract to read in their family , and to return it the next Sunday . When old enough , they should give an account of it to their teacher . It
is pleasing to see tlie list of small tracts increase , that can be distributed at a small expense . Among others may be mentioned , Why do I go to an Unitarian Chapel ? An Appeal to the Scriptures in Vindication of Unitarianiam ; An Abridgment of the same , by Alexander , of Yarrnouth : Dr . S .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 730, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/26/
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