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of my opiuion may now ask , at what time then do I think that the Word be * came flesh ? Upon this point I speak with the diffidence which the subject requires . To me , then , the weak and humble state of the Word commenced with the glorious
words from on high , " This is my beloved Son , in whom I am well pleased ;" and I am the more inclined to this opinion , as John takes no uotice of the early life of our Saviour . Had he entertained the opinions of my correspondent , so remarkable a circumstance could not have
been overlooked . Thus the preface to John ' s Gospel has , according to myoview of it , no reference ¦ whatever to the opinions entertained by our Arian and Tri-Unitarian brethreu on the supposed pre-existent state of our
Saviour , nor even to any thing relative to him prior to the declaration of the Supreme , pointing out to us the author , under Him , of our salvation . And , indeed , the Apostle himself leads us to this conclusion , as he expressly says that his memoir was writteu to convince us-
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Mr . Joseph Morton . 1831 . March 25 , affer a short illness , at his house in Sheffield , in the 83 rd year of his age , Mr . Jose ph Morton . He was an Elder of the Presbyterian congregation under the pastoral care of the Rev . Dr . Philipps , of which church he had been a member from his earliest
youth , and had joined in its religious communion under the ministry of the younger Mr . Wadsworth , Mr . Haynes , Mr . Dickinson , and Mr . Naylor ; on -whose resignation , in 1806 , the present pastor removed from London to Sheffield , and had the happiness of witnessing Mr . Morton ' s constant attendance on the
religious services of the church , and enjoying his friendship , during a period of more than five and twenty years , till his death . Mr . Morton was a man of gTeat piety , of firm and unblemished integrity ,
steady to his purposes , which were always deliberately formed , and were the dictates of a pure and enlightened conscience—a conscience void of OftVnce towards Ood and man . He ' was a strict Unitarian , the oldest in Sheffield , and derived from that faith , which he believed to have been first delivered to the
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that Jesus was the Soil of Ood . Had he wished to convey to us any idea of a supposed pre-existent state , assuredly he would not have dismissed his subject in such a manner . But the preface leads us to much higher contemplations , and to points of more interest to each of us . It declares to us that we are to be , and how we are to become , children of God- * -not by a rite of
blood , not by the will of man , but by a spiritual birth , according to a well-known Hebrew expression , from God . We are to be God-taught , not man-taught ; and till professing Christians understand this thoroughly , their dissensions and divisious must continue . Vain , our Saviour has said , is all worship , if we follow the traditions of men ; and they who do so ean never feel uor understand the glorious * liberty of the sons of God .
If what I have taken the liberty of suggesting should induce an abler pen to dilate upon this subject , it will be highly gratifyiug to W . FREND .
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saints , the strongest consolations in life , and unshaken fortitude in the hour of mortal dissolution . On approaching that hour , he most particularly and fully expressed to his surrounding family , with his parting lips , the satisfaction , the entire satisfaction , which he had enjoyed through life from that faith , and which he still continued to eujoy , at a time when flesh and heart might be expected to fail . This he found and felt to be an
anchor to his soul , " sure and steadfast . " He was interred in the burial-ground belonging to the Upper Chapel , his accustomed place of worship , on the Tuesday following his death , and on the Lord ' s-day after , a discourse was delivered on the occasion from the two first clauses of the 6 th and 7 th verses of the 10 th chapter of Proverbs .
The fallowing particulars have been sent to the writer of the preceding obituary , and are added , as a just tribute to the memory of him who is the subject of it . For any repetitions there needs no apology . " Averse as I am to eulogize either the living or the dead , I cannot but feel that by the removal of our venerable patriarch from amongst us by
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410 Obituary . —Mr .-Joseph Moricfo .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/50/
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