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in the garden of God ; ' or expect that the swans of mortality , which only sing as they die , shall warble forth the same seraphic songs with those that float upon the waters of God . From the common frailty of all mortal things , he will uot expect that he , or his , shall be exempted . His noblest' treasure will be in heaven / and his * heart' will he with his treasure .
Whether it be the will of the Eternal to give , to resume , or to deny , he will welcome , or endure it , as the will of a Being , who is infinite alike in power , in wisdom , and in love . He will resign in patience to the All-gracious Giver , what he has asked in prayer , and enjoyed with praise . Amid ail the glooms that may obscure his way , he vviJl look beyond the fleeting vapours of time , to the Star uf
Love walking in brightness' above them ; and anticipate , with patient hope , the arrival of the hour , when every cloud shall be transfigured into a glory , when ' a new heaven and earth' shall receive ' the just made perfect / and the ' Sun of Righteousness shall aiise' upon < the Paradise of God / "—Pp . 20 , 21 .
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Art . IV . — University 0 / London . s 4 n Introductory Lecture upon tfie Study of Theology and of the Greek Testament , delivered at the Opening " of the Theological Institution , Saturday , November 21 , 182 D . By the Rev . Thomas Dale , M . A , Lecturer on Divinity at the above Institution , and Professor of the English Language and English Literature in the University ot London . London : Taylor , 182 i > , pp . 38 .
We have given the above title at full , that our readers may judge for themselves of the correctness of our opinion , that it has a deceptive tendency . Who would not infer from it that " the Theological Institution" is an integral portion of the 4 * University of London" ? Mr . Dale has indeed explained , in the Advertisement and the Lecture itself , that there is no further connexion
between the two than that the one is , or is to be , conducted , supported , and frequented , by certain of the professors , friends , and students of the other ; but this very statement is itself the ground 011 which we condemn the implied asin the It
sumpj ^ oji title . may be thought that we are animadverting 011 a mere trifle 5 but we know the grasping spirit of the Establishment ; we know that when the clergy connected with the University were in treaty for a place of wor-
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ship , they announced that it would be ' The University Chapel ; " we know the heterogeneous elements uf which the Council is composed , and iiow portions cf it may be acted upon by narrow creeds or a short-sighted , compromising policy ; we know how the fundamental principle
of the Institution , of complete non-interference with religion , has been already in jeopardy ; and we are therefore jealous , even about such trifles as this may seem , in proportion to our solicitude for the honour , prosperity , and usefulness , of the London University ^ Two courses of Lectures are proposed ; one on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion ; the other , on ttje Greek Testament . The fir . st is to be complete within the limits of each Session . The extent of the other is not defined , but two Lectures are to be delivered every
week . There is nothing which particularly calls for remark , either iu the way of praise or ut censure , in what is said of either . A Theological Library U commenced , for the use of the Students ; they are to be frequently examined by the Lecturer ; and there is to be a General Examination and Distribution of l . es
at the end ot the Session . As the professed object is not to make Theological Scholars , but to cultivate Religious Principle , this last provision is of a very questionable character . We Jittle expected to meet in this
Lecture with a declaration of war against Unitarianism . It was neither necessary nor decent . Not necessary , for the Evidences of Christianity are neutral ground on which polemics may hold truce without any compromise of principle ; and not decent iu a Lecturer who is about to
avail himself largely of " the elaborate researches of Lardner . " It would have been an odd situation for that excellent man , had he beeu now living , to have found himself turned away , lor his he * resy , from the door of a room in which a lecture was delivering compiled from his own publications . Very odd ; and
not very creditable . His admission , it fcceins , wuuld be a liberality beyoud the bounds of prudence . " l > y members of the Church of England it was originated , by them it is principally supported , and . they alone exercise any comroul over its management . It is true , they do not confine its benefits to those of their own
communion , but are willing to extend them to all who admit that viml principle of our common Cliribtiamiy ,- —the essential Divinity of the Son of Go < i : but , while they thus adopt the principle of liberality to the utmost limit ot pru-
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Critival Xotlccs . — Theological . 53
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 53, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/53/
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