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cular mental habits * -rthe value of others . But Christianity teaches more than this : she views them all as means of advancing or impeding- us in our Christian career . la cultivating the faculty of percep ~ twn , for instance , the philosopher knows he is preparing an instrument
by which the sense of sight will be rendered more serviceable to himself and his fellow-creatures . Instead of an abstracted ,, a mentally blind spectator of human happiness or misery , he will have furnished society with a . seeing , with a perceiving agent * Or , instead of a selfish , melancholy man , for ever brooding over internal
troubles , he will , by the assiduous cultivation of this faculty in early life , have compelled him to be an interested spectator , and probably actor , in the scene of human affairs . It will not be in his power to shut himself out from the world he lives in . The
face of nature will have power to win him from his abstractions ; the claims of society will not be put forth in vain . So far proceeds the philosopher ; but give a Christian the like ascendancy , and see how much farther
H will lead him . To him , as to the pupil of the mere philosopher , such cultivation opens , as it were , a new world ; but his world is bright with the li ght of revelation . All those quick , clear and vigorous perceptions , which to the philosopher were
valuable as a source of general interest , and as denoting a healthy , active state of the faculties , arc with him means to an end , and that end the promotion of Christian good . Lively perceptions are useful , chiefly because they lead to the ready discernment of what will render his own services most useful ; they are valuable , because by them lie is weaned from the selfish
indulgence ot his own feelings . Christianity turns even his perceptions of evil wto good , by shewing him that for every abuse there is a corrective ; by stimulating him to active exertions w the removal of ill . Suppose , in * , * nwmer , every faculty brought wo the service of Christianity , all «» y exercised , all cultivated to the ut most , how incalculable the results and * I distan * such attainments surpl reSults m * Y be the Y are non « , contein P ated in the gospel as nt unattainable else why are we com-
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manded V to love the Lord our Goc with nil our heart and mind and sou and strength" ? Amid the consciousness of falling short in all points ol obedience to this command , it would be well if , at least , we could impress
on our minds the necessity of not neglecting any part of it . Total forgetfulness of any part of the Divine requisitions is worse than general defectiveness , inasmuch as the latter ia
inseparable from our nature - , the former a voluntary , self-incurred neglect , and liable to punishment from Him who , though he expects not to reap where he has not sown , demands the application and improvement of every talent bestowed upon us . E .
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" The Bible carried it by Four . " 451
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Maids t one > Sm , July ^ \ 6 1826 . FIND that I have inadvertently I attributed to a wrong authority , ( p , 133 , ) the expression , " The Bible
carried it by four , " in reference to the result of deliberations in Salters' Hall , A . D . 1 / 19 . It appears from Whiston's Memoirs of his own Life , p . 220 , ( a . work containing so naany
interesting passages as amply to repay a repeated perusal , ) that the expression quoted was used by the " excellent Master of the Rolls , Sir Joseph Jekyl , " and does not belong to the author of the Confessional .
Whistou subjoins " the names of the 73 that were for the Bible . " In . tins list , the reader is not surprised to find the names of Moses Lowman , Samuel Chandler , Benjamin Avery , Nathaniel Lardner , to the place of
whose nativity and death I had the pleasure two days ago of making a pilgrimage , and of perusing and tranJ scribing the monumental inscription in the parish church of HawkhurstJ engraven by David Jennings , "• from reverence to the memory of his uncle . "
Whiston continues , in reference td the Salters' Hall Synod , " This I look upon us the lirst example of a body of Christians publicly declaring' for Christian liberty in matters of reliJ gion . " " The General Baptists had also a very great meeting in London about 1 7 ^ 0 , when the number wad
about 120 , who also came ia u jnanner universally into the same deterJ urination , of not making any human
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 455, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/11/
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