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Critical Xotices —Theological. 705
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of emancipation / or the oppressed be for a time delayed , because a people heated by faction aiid stained with blood are as yet unworthy of liberty , and that if this people should again be permitted to fall under the yoke , that they may be further chastened and disciplined by adversity , it is uot that the Almighty has forgotten bis children who cry unto him , it is not
that the interests of liberty are perished for ever , it is not that the day- * tar of happiness is everlastingly set in blood ; but it is , 0 glorious and triumphant evidence of the controlling and protecting providence of God I it is , that sobered by adversity , instructed by experience , and purified by the chastening influences of reflection and sorrow from the darker
and fiercer passions , they may in the fulness of time , when the measure of their sufferings is accomplished , step forth with the majestic frout of liberty and truth , and in one simultaneous rising by one decisive eflfort firmly and resolutely seize upon that freedom to which their virtues entitle them , and which their previous trials have fitted them to
exercise and enjoy . TJie sight of a whole people roused by one magnanimous feeling in defence of their invaded rights , and asserting them with a firmness , a courage , and a merciful moderation to which . past history furnishes nothing parallel , is trulyani mating to the benevolent and generous soul , and affords a most gratifying proof that the people who can thus unite with the most heroic bravery
and the most devoted love of justice , the tenderest compassion and humanity , have not been tutored by adversity in vaiu . I devoutly hope and trust that , as meu and as Christians , we shall not be found wanting in the most cordial expressions of sympathy and congratulation to our brethren ; our congratulation on the well-merited recovery of their rights and liberties ; our sympathy conveyed in the kindest and most substantial form on
occasion of their losses and sufferings which , however they may be forgotten by the public in the bustle and glare of victory , will be deeply felt by many a private mourner , and which are the price that must be paid for the least costly and the most necessary of these revolutions
ot society , 1 trust we shall let our neighbours see that the English public is one with them in heart and in spirit , ami that so tar from envying their splendid success in the spirit of that miserable patriotism which once separated as innplacable foes those who ought to have lived together as brethren and friends ,
wt » heartily rejoice in every triumph
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which they have gained , as only an additional guarantee for the perpetuity aud strength of our own liberties . "
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i Art . N . ^ -The Day of the Lord : ft Sermon , preached before the West-Ridbig Unitarian Tract Society at Wake field , May 12 tk . By William Turner , Jun ., A . M . This discourse abounds io judicious and useful reflections . The text , 1 Thess .
v- 2 j " For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night ; " the respectable author , a little warped in his judgment , we think , by the application of it which he is about to make , suggests * ' may not have been intended to have an exclusive
reference to auy particular event , but may be considered as a general descri p ^ tiou applicable to all great and signal manifestations of the presence of God with his creatures . " The application and the interpretation of a text are two things perfectly distinct . The latter sets forth the meaning of the writer , the former applies that meaning to any event
which comes within the scope of the principle implied in it . Whether or not these two things are confounded in the case before us , we rather propose for consideration than positively affirm . The following quotation contains the general truth which the writer labours , and most successfully , to establish : < c Every important or remarkable event may , with ?
great propriety , be styled the day of the Lord ; ' as being a period ( and therefore a day , not the day ) which strikingly illustrates his designs and the tendency of his measures for the final happiness aud improvement of all his creatures ; a period when our attention is more peculiarly aud forcibly directed to the hand of God , regulatipg all the changes and revolutions of the world so as to
subserve his gracious purposes . And it is remarkably true of most of these , that they come upon us like a thief in the night , and take meu as it were by surprise /* r Php period in which we live is eminently adapted to illustrate this
position , as may * be seen by comparing our condition in respect t ; o religious truth and liberty with that of our fathers . And may not what we have seen encourage us to hope for more marvels of the same nature ? A time may come when " those who are now the uiost
vehement in raising the war-cry agaiu . st what they are pleased to call Socinian blasphemies * shall see and acknowledge
Critical Xotices —Theological. 705
Critical Xotices —Theological . 705
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/49/
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