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justified ; if he was not innocent , it was but the punishment of his sin ; and that he was really guilty , considering the positive laws of the polity under which he lived , we have no hesitation in deciding ; for the Levites , and they
alone , had charge of the tabernacle , and of all the vessels belonging to it : when it set forward they were to take it down , and when it was to be pitched they were to set it up ; " and the stranger , " i . e . one of any other tribe , " who came nigh , was to be put to death /* See Numb . i . 51 ; 1 Chron . xv . 2 .
. In conclusion , we beg to recommend these works to young students in theology , not only as containing much that is valuable on the evidences of Christianity , and on various topics of biblical criticism , but as furnishing good models for a pulpit style . We are well aware that we are treading on very tender ground , when we recommend a style for imitation ; we are well aware that there is perhaps no style which deserves implicit and unqualified praise ; and we will further admit , that that of M . Cell £ rier , particularly in the first of these Discourses , is somewhat declamatory . Still , with all these deductions , we find here much that is deserving of imitation . There is
throughout , wherever the subject admits of it , a power of graphic and animated description , a rich vein of religious feeling , and an overflowing spirit of devotion , which render these works eminently fitted to arrest the attention , and to affect the heart , and of which , we confess , we should wish to see a much stronger infusion than is at present to be found in the compositions of our English divines . In justification of this praise , we may refer to the extracts already made , and still more to the peroration of the first discourse .
Our readers have been apprized by a notice in our last Number , that the Rev . J . R . Wreford is preparing for publication a translation of the first of these Discourses ; and from the opinions we have expressed they will readily infer our hope that he will meet with sufficient encouragement to induce him speedily to perfect his task by adding to it a translation of that upon the New Testament .
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If we believe that God is , and that he is a holy and benevolent Being , we must also believe in his superintending care and providence over us . We must believe that he arranges all the events of our lives , and all our moral and intellectual as well as our physical relations ; that , as respects both our ¦
lives and our souls , we may truly say , that in * ' Him we live and move and have jour being . " There is a rich provision made for us both in the material and the rational creation , and a beautiful appropriation of means to * the wise ends required by our Creator ; and the more we contemplate and study these , the more we shall be convinced that , even to the humblest or most
unfortunate individual , the Author of his existence has been lavish of his blessings . Oqr external senses , with all the various sources of pleasure they produce , their exquisite and beautiful structure , and the very organization itself of our animal condition , are so many living demonstrations of the power and goodness of our Maker . We behold a wonderfully intricate frame , combining strength with the fipest and most delicate contrivances , and with all its complicated variety of parts , yet moving on in life and in health , under the influence of an unfailing order , and a regular , though mysterious , power
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692 Thoughts on Affliction .
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THOUGHTS ON AFFLICTION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1829, page 692, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2577/page/20/
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