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THEOLOGY .
Art . I . —Jesus the Living Bread that came down from Heaven . A Discourse delivered ut Dorchester , July 21 , 1830 , before the ffestern Unitarian Society * By Russell Scott . Hunter . Mr . Scott is remarkably rich and happy in the illustration of particular texts , especially such as are involved in
obscurity , or have been subject to perversion , by the general phraseology of Scripture . His appeals to similar modes of expression in other parts of the sacred volume seem usually to exhaust the subject , and while they convince by their clearness , overpower by their
copiousness . The text of the sermon before us , John vi . 51 , afforded an opportunity , of which he has availed himself iu a most satisfactory manner , for the exercise of this peculiar skill . Criticism of this description cannot be exhibited in the brief specimen which our present limits would allow us to extract . We therefore refer
the reader to the sermon itself , and select in preference one of the moral applications of the text , towards the conclusion . Its spirit is worthy of its excellent author , who has so long recommended the gospel by his labours and adorned it by his life . " I am the living bread which came dowu from heaven ; if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever . * "We have here our Lord ' s assurance that his
doctrine is the means of preparing us for eternal life ; and , if we obey its dictates , will secure to us the enjoyment of it . That moral life to which the instructions of Jesus are calculated to form us , in the present period of our existence , constitutes our capacity and our meetness for life eternal . The life of heaven , indeed , is no other than the moral life carried on
to its maturity and perfection . In that state , the understanding will be above the reach of error , misconception , and mistake . It will attain to much clearer and more enlarged views of truth than any of which we are uow capable . There , all irregularity in the affections will entirely cease . There , the purest and the most amiable dispositions will be esta-
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blished . There , every virtue will shine out in its full lustre . " Such are the descriptions given us in the New-Testament Scriptures of that future state which is promised in them to those who are , « incerely and uniformly obedient to the teachings of their Divine Master , which they contain . And how
evident is it , that the doctrine of Jesus , as it is calculated to establish in us a taste for the divine pursuits of truth and goodness , so it directly tends to prepare us for that heavenly state ! All on whom it has this happy effect , have the fullest assurances of their finally inheritiug that glorious life . "—Pp . 28 , 29 .
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Art . II . — Immortality or Annihilation ? The Question of a Future State discussed and decided by the Arguments of Reason . London i Treuttel and Wurtz . ' In the county of B . died , not long since , a private gentleman who had not advanced beyond the middle term of life .
and who left behind him a manuscript on the subject of a future state ; the first portion of which is here submitted to the public . The writer was indebted to his father not only for a good estate , but also for an excellent education . It was not long before he was universally acknowledged to be a young man possessing superior qualities both of head and
heart . Initiated by his teachers into the belief in revealed religion , he lived content in this faith till he became his own master , and could read what books he pleased . Doubts then arose in his mind . His faith in revelation was shaken , and with it his conviction of the first truths .
If he had hitherto needed no other evidence of them than the idea—the Bible says so—now that this idea had lost its force with him , he suddenly found himself completely forlorn , and was like a man whose house is swallowed up before his face , together with the ground on which it stands .
" From this period he had to conteud with the most painful of all uncertainties In regard to * his future destination . The
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1831, page 533, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2600/page/29/
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