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hope . How far the events of his reign reflect credit on the character of the . departed Sovereign , is a question which we are not disposed to discuss , A King of Great Britain can have little more than negative merits . All that ought to be required of him is , that he should not obstruct the progress of improvement ; its real and permanent promotion must be the work of the people themselves . So far as any thing of this kind can be laid to the late King ' s charge it must relate to his personal habits and profuse expenditure ; to his treatment of his unfortunate consort , by which he justly incurred
almost universal odium ; and to the difficulty with which it is believed that his assent was obtained to the great measure of his reign * But that assent was given ; and we might have been living under a Sovereign whose obstinacy would sooner have plunged the country into all the horrors of civil warfare . The probability of such a catastrophe did not , at one time , seem so very remote . Thank heaven , it was averted !
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Whatever differences might subsist among various nations in the early ages of the world , there was originally no distinction between Jews anal Gentiles . This distinction was arbitrary and temporary ; and because its abolition must follow the reception of Christianity , it is justly declared , that by the gospel all things are restored to the state in which they were before the separation of the Jews - By the revelation of the gospel , all men are once more subjected to one mode of education , though that mode be widely different from any hitherto employed . The Jews having been taught the essential truth of a divine moral government , and been made an exemplification of this truth in the eyes of other nations , are called on to relinquish the individuality of their national character , and to unite with their brethren at large in subjection to a new discipline . This call constitutes the sole peculiarity of the gospel to them ; and the call being obeyed , the peculiarity vanishes , and the glad-tidings of the kingdom become to them as to others , the glad-tidings of life .
These tidings could not but be willingly received by the enlightened Jews , though involving the extinction of their peculiar honours and privileges . The new message from heaven was of a higher nature than the former , not only in its substance , but in its foam The essential truth of Christianity consists in the facts that Jesus died and rose again , and that he was empowered to confer the gifts of the Holy Spirit . By these facts , a divine promise was substituted for an inference of a future life ; and not only was the existence of a moral government made a matter of absolute certainty , but it was proved to be more extensive and of a more exalted nature than had been conceived of before *
The acquisition of these truths was a high privilege ; but more might be gathered from the mode in which the gospel was administered ; and if they have not hitherto been duly and generally appreciated , it only shews that Christianity has not yet wrought its perfect work .
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The Education of the Human Mace . 511
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THE EDUCATION OF THE HUMAN RACE . IV .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 511, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/7/
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