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" Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . "—Pope ,
Art . I . —The Christian Rule of Equity enforced and applied . A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of St . Peter * Yorti , before the Hoti . Sir John Bayley . Knight > and the Hon . Sir George Sowley Holroyd , Knight , Two of his
Maquest of the High Sheriff , ( John Hutton , Esq ., ) and the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury . York , printed by Wilsons . Sold by Longman and Co ., London . 1825 . 8 vo . pp . 16 .
^ HIS preacher discourses on the JL golden rule of equity , as laid down by Jesus Christ in JVlatt . vii . 12 ;
in respect of which lie well observes , that " in the utmost extent to which Pagan moralists had been able to penetrate , the negative precept only was discovered , ' Do not to others what you would resent if done to yourself / " In a spurious addition to Acts xv . 29 , * we meet with the same negative precept ; a reading for the introduction of which it cannot be difficult to
account , f Justice is a most appropriate subject for an assize sermon : nor can the application of our Saviour ' s maxim be less seasonable and momentous than the enforcement of the duty .
Mr . fate attends to both these objects , and does not forget that he is addressing an audience brought together by a very solemn public occasion . He begins with drawing an impressive picture of our courts of judicature : then ho adverts , in general yet glowing terms , to the prosperity of the nation \ and he next insists on the vast
impor-* Griehbach and Mat thai in loc . See , too , the 20 th verse , in the critical editions of the N . T . -f- We htrongly conjecture that the addition was a marginal note , suggested by the Apostle Paul ' s reasoning in Horn , xiv ., xv ., and in 1 Cor . viii . &c ; and perhaps by the Noachic precepts .
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jestys Justices of the Court of Kings Bench , March 26 , 1825 . By the Rev . James Tate , M . A ., late Fellow of Sidney College , Cambridge , and Rector of Marske , Yorkshire . Published at the re-
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tance of our deportment and character , as a community , being governed by Christian principles . Thus his comment on the golden rule of equity is naturally and easily introduced . We pass over his intermediate and general reasoning , and hasten to notice his illustrations of it in two most
affecting cases—colonial slavery and incomplete toleration . Here he perceives ( and what man of thought and sensibility does not perceive ?) national disobedience to the great rule of justice . Concerning the present state of West-Indian slavery he says , that it exhibits " an immense mass of evil
and of cruelty and vice , amid rights scanty enough and worse protected , morals shockingly depraved , and religious knowledge , faintly dealt or absor lutely withheld , —a horrible blot
altogether on the Christian name , still calling aloud for active interference from this country , first for mitigation of the wrong , and then by wise and cautious but resolute measures ,
ultimately , for its extinction also- " We proceed to his remarks on the other example of a violation of public equity : The remaining subject , that of our yet incomplete toleration * I approach with
delicacy , as becomes me , but not without animation too from the kind aspect which in certain high places seems now to be worn . Different classes of lights appear to be brought into discussion with far less prejudice , with much more good nature than before ; and different classes of
men begin to view each other in a more favourable light , even amidst conflicting ' interests , so supposed , and claims once deemed irreconcilably hostile * " Mueh however here also still is l « ft to be done . But xhe disposition for peace and good-will is happily at work . . May God prosper its benignant operation 1
Nor let it be forgotten , that the humblest voice which rise ' s in concord , must swell the general harmony , and that evrery heart which from this hour cherishes one kindly feeling more than it did , may help to consolidate the union of an empire . " In the mean while , let us pursue the line of our argument , and consider those inferences from it which remain to be drawn .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 682, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/42/
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