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Intelligence.
INTELLIGENCE .
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Manchester Colleg'e , York , The following Address from the Visitor ( Rev . W . Turner ) to the Students , at Manchester College , York , after the Annual Examination , on Thursday , June 25 th , was unavoidably omitted in our report . Gentlemen ,
In my last Address I took the opportunity of offering some advice to our young friends who were then about to leave us with the view of entering on the Study of the Law ; . * But as it is the intention of most of you here present to undertake the discharge of the serious and important duties of the Christian Ministry , I avail myself of this occasion to offer you a few thoughts on their due discharge .
I venture upon this , indeed , with considerable diffidence , after the excellent Address delivered to you from this place in February last , by my friend Dr . Hutton , the deep impression of which I trust will ever remain upon your nainds .+ As , however , that Address related chiefly to the motives which ought to
actuate a young person in making choice of the ministerial profession , and as those of you who are now to Jeave us are about jfco undertake its immediate exercise , under the influence , I persuade myself , of the purest motives , I have thought it might not be unseasonable to pursue the subject in this its important practical application .
I have no doubt that , in the course of your critical study of the New Testament under- the direction of your excellent Theological Tutor , you have been greatly struck with the Epistles of Paul to his pupils Timothy and Titus ; aud have determined to make the
in-? See Monthly Repository for September , 1828 , p . 590 . \ At the Trustees' Meeting ( Friday , June 26 ) it was unanimously resolved , < c That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Herds . J . G . Robberds and Dr . Hut ton , Public Examiners at the half-yearly Examination in February
last ; and that Dr . Hut ton be requested to allow his Address , then delivered , to be laid before the public through the Monthly Repository . " [ It has been received , and will be inserted next month . Ed / 1
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i structions which they contain the subject of your frequent add diligent study . Permit me to direct your attention particularly to the exhortation in the second chapter of the Epistle to Titus , at the fifteenth verse , " These things speak and exhort ; and rebuke with all au > thority : let no man despise thee . " The words stand in close connexion with
the account which the Apostle had been giving of the nature aud design of tlje Christian Religion , as the result of the Free Grace and Mercy of God , offering salvation to all men , forming or training up ( irocidsvovcra ) those who accept it to lead sober , righteous , and godly lives , in this present world j in expectation of the blessed end of their hope . And they contain very useful advice to the Teachers of the Gospel at all times .
First , they instruct you what you should speak . You should be careful to give a just description of the peculiar doctrines of the Christian religion , and point out the connexion which they have with a life of virtue and obedience . You will call the attention of those who
hear you to the account which the Scriptures give of the Divine compassion aud mercy , and to the favourable aspect which the grace of God in the gospel bears on the salvation and happiness of mankind ; and you will point out the necessary connexion which this view of the gospel has with the sentiment of
devout gratitude to God , the Original Author of this great blessing , and -with all the practical expressions of it in a holy and virtuous life . You will also think it your duty to represent in its proper light the greatness of the love of Christ ; and will lay before your hearers such views of the nature and
consequences of the great work which he hath achieved , as may engage their affection to him , and produce an abiding sense of the many benefits which God has designed for the world by his means . You- will often insist upon the excellence of his doctrine ,, and : its happy tendency to enrich the mind with the best
and noblest sentiments ; you . will apeak with pleasure of all that he has done in his life and by hia death , and on the sure and precious promises which God hath confirmed by raising him from the dead ; and you will shew , that the whole supplies new a ^ ud mostr powerful motives to all the duties of life , and is calculated
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1829, page 723, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2577/page/51/
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