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18 . ( Ch . xvii . 1—10 . ) Miscellaneous instructions to the disciples . — This section may well be referred fojPart VIII . on the last journey . On the whole , it appears from this analysis that there is no difficulty in finding suitable positions for all the parts of Luke's Gnomology ; and that
some sections are now so obviously referable to specific positions , that they should be arranged accordingly : nevertheless , that where they may be justly referred to one of two or more situations , it is best to leave where they are those which the train of events does not appropriate , pretty decidedly , to some specific one ; and since those sections which may best be
referred to the last journey , cannot well be placed in the narrative , without interrupting the train of events as recorded by Matthew , Mark , and even Luke himself , and since the position of the Gnomology , in this arrangement , as well as in St . Luke ' s Gospel , brings these sections into close relation with the events of the last journey—they also may well be left where St . Luke has left them .
Agreeably to these views , all the foregoing sections , except those marked with an asterisk , may be left in Part VII . The rest seem best transferred to the respective Parts . ( "To be concluded next month . !
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Were I to ask you , my Unitarian friends , why you meet around this table and partake of the memorials of the death of Jesus , you would , amid the many reasons that crowd upon your minds , find your love of the Saviour the predominant feeling . Regard for the express command he gave that
his followers should eat and drink in remembrance of him , would have weight with you . A desire would be recognized in your heart to be associated , by the commemoration of your Lord ' s death , with the long line of Christian worthies who stretch up from the present day to the very supper where Christ presided , and will go forward , adorned with many a bright link , and pervaded by the holy influence of Christian and brotherly love ,
even into eternity . An honourable wish also actuates you to add your testimony , however humble , to the divine origin of the Saviour ' s mission , to declare unostentatiously , yet not without effect , your assured conviction that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world ; that the Father ' s grace originated the scheme of man's redemption , which the Saviour's love completed ; that amidst the decay and decline of all human things , there is one rock on which the soul may rest ; and that while the hopes of
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624 9 Fhy does a Unitarian take the Lords ' Supper ? answered *
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THE QUESTION , WHY DOES A UNITARIAN TAKE THE LORD ' S SUPPER ? BRIEFLY ANSWERED .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 624, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/48/
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