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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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tliou hear the pure doctrine of the gospel , learn , receive with belief , and have commenced obedience , and shalt know that the command of God is , that thou shouldest seek this right church , and hold to the preaching of it , with right belief , invocation , knowledge , and love , as the 26 th Psalm says , * One thing have I desired of the Lord , that will I seek after : that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life . '
" Thou mayest remark here , too , the loftiest promises and the most gracious consolation , and believingly confess , the Father loveth thee on account of the Son , forgiveth thee thy sins , receiveth thee into his grace in this life , albeit we are yet weak and unclean ; and if thou believe this , and trust in Jesus Christ , the Mediator between God and man , so art thou the habitation of God , and the everlasting Father and the Son work in thee through the
gospel and holy spirit of new light and of new obedience ; and may God hear and protect thee in this life , and soften to thee its great misery ; and then , when God becomes all in all , tLou wilt clearly know him ; so will he give thee , in the heavenly church of eternal life , liis ligbt , wisdom , and justice , and joy . Observe how great a good it is to be the habitation of God , and that he . will obtain such things , through this belief , who trusts in Jesus Christ , the Mediator between God and man . 1552 " . PHILIPPUS MELANCTHON . "
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Art . I . — La Femme et hi Religion : Discours prononck a Nismes , pour tine Reception de Cutkchumenes Jilles , 8 fc . ( TVoman and Religion : a Sermon , delivered in the Great Church at Nismes , on Occasion of the Reception of some Young' Ca ~ techumens , June 6 , 1828 . ) By — Vincent , Pastor , Nismes .
This is a truly beautiful address . It may have more faults than the discourse of Buck minster on the same subject , but it is incomparably more eloquent and powerful . We have no objection to the doctrine that iC Religion is a matter of feeling and affection , that its seat is in the heart , and when its reign is
established there , its task is fulfilled and the gospel has triumphed . " We agree with the preacher , that , " of all errors , the greatest is to suppose it a inere work of the understanding , which may be decided upon by strength of reasoning ,, and , we are persuaded , that if there is any occasion for us to know and understand
more , it is that we may love the Creator more . " The only objection to M . Vincent ' s train of thought , is , that he presupposes a degree of subjection to merely social influences , in women , which , though found-
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ed in fact , is not one of the most creditable facts to either sex . We cannot praise much that virtue which is the mere growth , as we fear it often is , of accident ; nor does it follow , because social restraints are often beneficial , that there is nothing in the couditiou of women to be improved . We know not
that it is a part of Christianity , for instance , to exclude all , without exception , from virtuous society , who have ever strayed from the paths of virtue . We see much reason to fear that there may be many Pharisees among the virtuous . At any rate , Christian society has an account to render for the numbers whom
her stern condemnations have compelled to plunge yet deeper into vice . The Sermon opens like Buckminster ' s , with a review of the peculiar honours which Christianity conferred upon women at its first promulgation . " From the contemplative piety of Mary , who loved and revered in silence ,
to the activity of Martha , who loved and wished to wait upon him ; from the celestial purity of the Virgin to the fervent and lively repentance of Magdalen at Jesus' feet ; from the sisters of Lazarus , resigned , while misappreheuding him , to the unmoveabie faith , of that obscure woman who , lost in the crowd , said , 'If I do but touch the hem of \ m
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Critical Notices . 115
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/43/
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