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^ daun ted twi >} tJgi 5 tfoeyit ^ ir ^ rork .. began : - . r . i . , / ,- ? . - > ¦• : - > Cold in their veins the life-blood often ran , For they had human feelings ;—yet to be Heaven ' s ministers , and work upon its plan , B reathed through their souls resistless
energy , And the world heard their voice— The Negro shall be free !'" Pp . 32 , 33 . The poet binds a wreath around the heads of Clarkson and Wilberforce , whose true honour it is to be revered arid loved by the purest and most amiable of their species . €
The moral of c The Vision" is explained in the two concluding stanzas : " OO thou who read ' st ! whose heart has felt the glow Of warm benevolence ; whose uutired feet Have trod those paths of duty here below , Where toil is sanctified and trouble
sweet , — Blessings be on thee ! As thy labour . great , Great be the harvest;—yet remember Htill How unsuspected lurks the deep
deceit , — How oft , for good , we snatch the cup ' of ill , And , brimming though it be , that cup yet higher fill .
Instructed , go!—Each high and noble aim Still in thy deepest musings love to rear ! Gq !—light more eagerly the holy flame Of love to all mankind i and if the
fear , That where thy wish a smile decreed , a tear May flow the faster for thine erring zeal , — If doubt like this intrude , a throne is
near , Where they that meekly and incessant kneel , Strengthen ed and heai'd themselves , shall others learn to heal . "
P . 38 . The " Other Poems , " forming twothirds of the volume , arc characterized bythe same power of numbers and felicitous simplicity of language , the same refined moral sensibility , and the same enlightened and fervent devotion . We find in them some which have alread y appeared in our Repository ,
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Rei ) m ^^^ Mit ^ n ^} Wr ^( ieimh ^^ h 'imkm DwtHn e . Q& ?
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Art . Ill , —A Treatise of Christian Doctrine , compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone . By John Milton . ( Continued from p . 613 . ) 1 ^ 1 HAP . III . is « Of the Divine
DeV- ^ crees . " These Milton distributes into General and Special . •* God ^ s General Decree is that whereby he has decreed from all Eternity of His own most Free and Wise and Holy Purpose , whatever he willed , or whatever He himself was about to do .
The Decree is not absolute , the author argues , in any thing which is left in the power of free agents . He maintains the theory of contingent decrees with great subtlety , but with , much the same success that has
attended all disquisitions on this difficult subject , the writers of which have resembled Milton ' s own metaphysical angels , who " reasoned high
Of providence ^ foreknowledge , will and fate , Fix'd fate , free-will , foreknowledge absolute , And found no end , in wand'ring mazes lost /'
Having referred to some of the decrees of God in the Scripture , which are put conditionally , he says , € C It is argued , however , that in such
instances not only was the ultimate purpose predestinated , but even the means themselves were predestinated with a view to it . So indeed it is asserted , but Scripture nowhere confirms the rule , which alone would be a sufficient reason
for rejectiug it . But it is also attended by this additional inconvenience , that it would entirely take away from human affairs all liberty of action , all endeavour aud desire to do right . For the course of argument would be of this kind—If God have at all events decreed my
salvation , whatever I may do against it , I shall not perish . But God has also decreed as the means of salvation that you should do rightly . I cannot , therefore , but do rightly at some time or pother , since God has decreed that also , —in the mean time I will act as I please ; if I never do rightly , it will be seen that I
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aud amongst them the ^ A ^ klres * to the Deity , " [ see Mon . fifeffci . Voh XIII . p . 62 , J ~ which in all that constitutes the excellence of sacred poetry yields only to Mrs . Barbauld ' s lines bearing the same title .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 687, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/47/
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