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leader of one of their own bands who announces the fact ; less , we hope , for the purpose of exposing the imsoundness of their state than of doing what he may to arrest the plague . Not once or twice , but repeatedly , do his observations lead us back to the subject . In his preface he reprobates " the almost universal practice of the ministers of the evangelical faith of preaching on doctrinal subjects , if not to the entire exclusion of moral topics , still
omitting a distinct enforcement of the particular duties enjoined by the divine law . " These doctrines being "disfigured" and " corrupted , " originate " a scheme of faith , not only divorced from all connexion with morals , but absolutely incompatible with such an alliance ;"— " and thus , whatever attempts may be made to disguise the conclusion , the whole of Christianity , as a scheme of doctrine , may be summed up in absolute predestination ; while , as a practical system , its only requirement is the belief that in that predestination the individual is included . " Such principles our author
perceives to be " destructive of all moral government , " that in careless minds they will encourage the ravages of sin ; while in the best , they permit religion to subsist only in an imperfect and degraded form . In the discourse on the danger of grieving the Holy Spirit , we are told , that " it can hardly escape an attentive observer of the c signs of the times , ' that defective views of the paramount importance of holiness as the end of the
Christian redemption , are prevalent among the professors of the evangelical Christian redemption , are prevalent among the professors of the evangelical faith , and a consequent relaxation in the tone of moral feeling ; " and both in this place , and in the sermon on Christian Assurance ( pp . 112—116 ) , the remonstrances and exhortations of the writer are carried out to great length . In speaking out thus plainly , he has discharged a duty which must
be as painful to himself as disheartening to his readers among his own body . But let them not reproach him , and let him not repent . He has told nothing but what all the world knew before , though those within the pale only whispered it one to another , while those without made it a matter of proclamation . Far be it from us to triumph over the errors or mock the sorrows of those who have not found the most excellent way . They are our brethren ; and as such , we owe them tenderness . But there is a nearer
relationship still . God is our Father , and the fulfilment of his purposes must be our first object . By our very tenderness towards our brethren we are moved to rejoice when we find them becoming convinced of the danger in whose existence , however real , they once refused to believe . By the same tenderness we are moved to secure to them as to ourselves , the imperishable charter of that " glorious liberty , " wherein , as far as we have obtained it , we perpetually rejoice .
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" To every thing there \ s a season , and a time to every purpose under heaveu . " Eeries . Hi . 1 . There is a time , —and childhood is the hour , — To hear the surges break among the caves ; To hail with mirth and sport their awful roar , And hear no deeper music in the waves .
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594 The Three Ages of the Soid .
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THE THREE AGES OF THE SOUL .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1830, page 594, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2588/page/10/
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