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higher than thy source ; revelation is beyond thy authority , and whoever trusts to thy insufficient aid , is awfully deceived . " Passing over the delectable subject of Ci A Cucurnber-bed spiritualized , " we come to the following : " My fellow-Magdalenes , all hail ! Forget not our Christ is both able and willing to * save unto the uttermost' ; thy daily sins , yea , thy heart sins shall be all in all put away by the sacrifice of
himself ; thou art annoyed with them , but he is charged with them ; they are within thee , but they were upon him : the royal gems which decorate his crown are the Magdalenes which he has gathered from the four quarters of the earth , and in the company we discover the murderous David , the wicked Manasseh , a backsliding Peter , a persecuting Paul , a ferocious gaoler , a gibbeted thief , a tender-hearted Lydia , with thousands and tens of thousands of others , who , like Magdalene , were as vile as hell could make them .
u \ e ruffians may conic , though your hands reek with blood , There ' s nothing too hard for the grace of our God ; Ye Magdalene harlots are welcome to-day With Jesus to banquet—he'll ne ' er cast away . " The following specimen of the reductio ad absurdum is amusing : " As to the question , what consistency can there be in a believer ' s praying for forgiveness , whilst , at the same time , he professes to believe that all his iniquities , past , present , and to come , are already forgiven 1—it is , as I said before , not a whit belter than carnal reason . Let J . H . but establish such a
course of proceeding as a general rule with him , in his decisions upon the word of God , and he will soon put an end , as far as concerns himself , to the mystery of godliness , and plunge into Socinianism at once . We need all the at , ai , the alases of a Greek chorus , to express our grief at the terrible dilemma to which the use of carnal reason leads . 4 'Tis pitiful , ' tis wondrous pitiful . ' " We now quote from a recent number of the Spiritual Magazine , the motto of which , even at this time of day , is the exploded text , 1 John v . 7 1
" 1 he march of intellect is the march of infidelity ; and religious liberalism the compromising of the truth . In a word , they are the daughters of the mother of harlots , alias the Anti-Christ . " " You cannot even go on in wickedness without Clod ' s permission ; and if God permit you to persist in sin , it is in order to punish you for it , and that your punishment may be the more signally displayed . "
The following makes one ' s blood to curdle : — " Respecting which I stated , that the saints or the righteous would rejoice over the final punishment and destruction of the ungodly . And I believe 1 went so far as to say , that I rejoiced there was such a place as hell . And what is hell but the place where Jehovah will display with inconceivable brightness the splendours of his justice ? Justice , the basis of his throne , an attribute as dear to Jehovah , in his
glorious 1 nnity of Persons , as those of his mercy , grace , and love ! Ah , Sir ! do angels and glorified spirits express any sorrow because there is such a place as hell ? Do they , can they weep to see Jehovah glorified in the destruction of his adversaries ? Sir ! their sight and their feelings are not like ours ; they do not partake of our amiable weaknesses ; they are not clothed
with cumbrous and sinful bodies like ours ; they do not view things through such false media as we do ; but , immersed in the splendours of Deity , they see , they feel , they act like him . " What horrible sentiments ! converting the Deity into a Moloch—the Deity , the Father of his * creatures , the God of love and of all consolation , the Father of mercies ! Such , however , is a
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42 Instance of the Power of System to pervert the Heart .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/42/
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