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dead , received up into glory , seated at God ' s right hand , made judge of quick and dead , and is destined to come a second time to award to every man according to the things done in the body ; and therefore I feel it a high privilege to love him , and am conscious of a devout reverence niingling with my affection , rendering it at once more pure , grateful , and influential . But vainly do I attempt to tell you of the reasons why Jesus is
precious to me . To do so fully , I must unfold my heart before you ; I must penetrate into its most secret workings ; I should have to call up all that I have felt in perusing the narratives of his life and death , in dwelling on his holy and lovely character ; I should have to go through the history of my Christian life , and set before you the instances , all hut numberless , in which the Gospel of Jesus has given me aid and strength and comfort—has led me from sin to holiness—from the world to God—from earth to heaven :
has refined my affections while it deepened them , has enlarged and expanded my mind . And if now the tenour of my days is peaceful and serene ; if I have hope towards God ; if a sweet consciousness of his favour pervades my soul , proving a constant source of pleasant thoughts and pleasant images ; if I look on my family with comfort , perhaps delight ; if I
can anticipate the time when this mortal shall be clothed upon with immortality , and all those who have aided and blessed me on the journey of life be as full of happiness as the large capacity of the undying spirit will admit ; to whom , under God , do I owe all these blessings—blessings truly priceless , blessings which make out of the creation of nature a new creation , blessings which double all the good of life and lessen all its ills—to whom but to Jesus am I indebted ? And therefore I love him with
reverential fervour , and therefore it is pleasant to me to muse on his character and deeds , to honour him in my affections , that by a humble imitation I may honour him in my life . For this cause I eat and drink in remembrance of him , and pray to his Father and my Father , to his God and my God , that the perishing memorials of his love may , by the divine blessing , prove that food which cometh down from heaven to be the life of the soul . True it is I do not believe that he was God the Son ; but I do hold , what the
Scriptures teach , that he was the Son of God . I do not believe that he was God-man ; but I hold , as the Scriptures teach , that God was with him . I do not believe that he made God merciful ; but I hold , what the Scriptures teach , that be came because God was merciful . I do not believe that he reconciled God to man , but man to God . And surely it is enough to believe what the Scriptures expressly set forth ; and strange is it if love to Christ
really depends on notions which have no direct countenance in the sacred records , and wjear the appearance of contravening some of their first and most important principles . And well certainly do I know that my simply scriptural faith is fitted to awaken devout attachment to the Saviour ; well do I know that the more it extends its empire over my bosom , the more ardent and . respectful , the more grateful and devout , the more stable and
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626 Why does a Unitarian take the Zrtrd * Supper ? answered .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/50/
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