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la the words of # living author , distinguished by a riebj original and masculiae tujra of thought , " Who is not aware , of the foreq ot £ custom , when it has in vkw tke indulgence of the Itista of men ? Can we . ; read of
tlios « scenes of festivity and mirth , which accompanied the offering up of a hecatomb upon great occasions , by the warriors of old time ; can we surtey the orgies of Bacchus , or view the lascivious courses which were not
only allowed to the people , but were dignified , by the title of religious rites in the temple of Venus , and not perceive that the more is given to the gratification of the senses , the more readily will superstition find advocates among the great bulk of the people ;
and that the more importance is attached to gay , or to solemn ceremonies of any sort , the more the tnind is called off from a regard to its intrinsic parity , and the less will pay regard to
moral excellence } " ( See Worsley's Lectures un the History of the Christian Church , comprehending a masterly summary of the reasons for Dissent from the Established Church of England . )
The ¦ modern Romans derived the exterior observances and investment ot their churches from the temples and sacerdotal stole of their proud predecessors , the gens togata of the " eternal city . " So obvious in appearance was the transition from Pagan to Popish ceremonies .
' The primitive bishops of the I'hfistian vocation were plain men , ** t each over his own society , for the Purposes of pious instruction and serous devotional exercises ; and they Ve the onl y dergy It scem Mid uMi * to compare with these ori-MUai pastors , the pompous train of ^ Jiu nopswi priesthood , distinguish-; u- » y--a handsome head-dress , flowing iW K 1 ? a ! i d ca 88 <* k * V Uwn sleeves , IU hmto i . ami link silk aproaa . "
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If tlxe eye ^ of ^^^ e ^ tatpir , attracted by i the ^ Qi , . ^ to ^^ ff displays ^ ojf ^^ qJ ^ oij akit ^ e ) ya 4 > iii ^ ei vestjW ^ j vO ^ effe ipi ^ py mi , l ^ ur y , ^ hQu ld ^ e fje ^ vpte ^ Q > w these gai | dy ba ( Jgjes ^) t to $ i tjbi ^ iaw the uiiud from the contem ^ tafiqn of j ^ tie internal *• beauty of holittess . ta Jehovah / ' may it not be asked , " Q \ ight these things to b ^? Di ^ ciplQa of Jesus are directed , by Divine authority , to be clothed with t humility , '" . upd to wear the ornameiit of a . meek and
gentle spirit 5 which ,, in the presence of God , is of gre ^ t price . Polite learning or huioanity he-lps to opea and enlarge the mind , and to give it a generous and liberal way of
thinking-, not vyhat is vulgarly termed Free ^ thiriking , and belongs to vulgar understandinfifs . I # eaminK , says Jortin , has a lovely child , called Moderation , . wd Moderation is not afraid
or ashamed to shew her face in th 6 theological world : the number of li ^ r friaads is increased , and , whilst our civil Constitution subsists , they are in no danger of being sewed up in a bag with a monkey , a viper , a wit , and a
Free-thinker , and flung into the next river . That liberty of prophesying may prevail , and that profane licenti * ousness may be restrained , are wishes which should always be joined together .
Query . The Evangelists and Apostles allude in their writings to the " Lord ' s body ? ' 4 i the body , of his flesh ; " and the body of his gltinry . T'fff , having descended from a prerexistfnt state of superhuman incorrupfion ^ -tke Messiah was born of a vv . omatii > and
lived and died as a man * i ^ raight , be presumed that when his commission upon earth was finished , and he put off the frail tabernacle of mortality , he would , as a spiritual being , laave resumed his primeval dignity * not in the likeness of human nature , botit in
his original incorporeal essence in the heavens . " God is a spirit . " : Yet the disciples are assured that their lowly frame is to be changed into a form consubstantial with his glorious body , for they shall see him as he is . * How can these attributes of the Son . oi
Man and of God be . recoiunlenble wvtih the Trinitarian . or \ Ariaa toypothesis < r WILLIAM EV"AN& « , > ., + — , , .. 4 «> - ^> , ' -ri ' lr *~ ., - { ^' . 4 > t , iv ^\\ .
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Mr . Evans oik the Mosaic Injunction , Deul . xxiw 6 . 457
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 457, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/13/
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