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A DISCOURSE, BY MRS. BARBAULD.
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND I , 3 REVIEW . NEW" SERIES , No . XV .
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tx They are without fault before the throne . ** Rev , xif . 5 . There are many circumstances in this vale of mortality through which we are travelling , which , however exalted , or however prosperous we may be , continually put us in mind of the imperfection of our fallen nature * But of these none is so humiliating , none so mortifying , to an ingenuous mind , as that mixture of sin and pravity which debases and defiles our minds , dims the lustre , or contaminates the purity , of our good actions , and renders the characters of even the best of us too like Nebuchadnezzar ' s
image , of which part was of fine gold and part of clay . There is nothing , therefore , in a state of future blessedness which a good man looks to with more ardent longings , than the prospect of being still better , ; he shall be without fault before the throne . How sin had its entrance into the works of God is a question of high antiquity and difficult solution . Certain it is , that it is there . Original or actual , moral or constitutional depravity , by whatever name we choose to call it . has laid waste or sullied at least the fairest
images of the Creator here below . Place the standard of moral perfection as low as we please , there is no man who acts up even to his own ideas of it . Let the bands of duty and obligation be twisted as loosely as they may , they will still be too strict for our impetuous passions . It may , therefore , be as * sumed as an undeniable truth , that all men , more or less , fall into sin , and by so doing incur that most painful feeling , the censure and disapprobation of their own minds . Even those characters to whom , in the warmth of a
j ust approbation , we perhaps g ive the epithet of blameless , on a nearer inspection discover many blemishes and failings which greatly cloud their good qualities . Or should they escape our search , we may be assured such characters discover thern in tliemselves . While the world is praising their virtues , they are mourning over their faults . ^ Thile the world is admiring how much they have done , they are lamenting that so much is left undone .
They are deeply conscious of invaluable time wasted and lost , of the repeated mischiefs of procrastination , of the secret , silent sap of undreaded , and therefore unresisted , indolence . ; of the leaden weights which earth and sense hang upon the mind , when she would mount upon the wings of faith and ] ove towards her divine original . They have performed , it may be , splendid
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MARCH , 1828 .
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VOL . II . " M
A Discourse, By Mrs. Barbauld.
A DISCOURSE , BY MRS . BARBAULD .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/1/
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