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standings opened , so that they were enabled to look forwards among tbe hidden things of futurity , and to anticipate with pious satisfaction and holy joy those great things which their heavenly Father hat } prepared in the lat * ter days for them that should ipve him , can it be a matter of surprise , when they were engaged in comforting their desponding countrymen with the prospect of an approaching deliverance from the temporal calamities with which they had been visited , that the warm and lively imagination of an .
eastern poet should have carried them forwards to that infinitely more glp ~ rious salvation from the bondage of idolatry and superstition , of sin and of death , which was at length to be achieved by the Messiah ; which was tp clear away all darkness and error , all the perplexing doubts and difficulties attendant upon many questions most interesting to the whole human race ,
and which necessarily bung over them , so long as no other light but that of mere unassisted reason was thrown upon them ; that full and clear revelation of saving grace and truth which has at length been published to all mankind , and is seeo , with the sajne comprehensive benevolence which i ? manifested in the communication of temporal gifts , uniting the whole huma $ race into one large family ,: of which Christ is the first-born brother , and God himself is the great and universal Father ?
I am not prepared to affirm that the ideas here suggested are sufficient to , remove all the difficulties with whicji this inquiry seems to be attendee ) , according to the prevalent modes of considering it - but they appear to me to have been in some measure overlooked by some of those who have lately endeavoured to pursue it upon rational principles , and might perhaps furnish some assistance in our endeavours to place the whole of this important subject in the most distinct and satisfactory light , Halifax . W . T *
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The month has been an eventful one , both a | t home and abroad , There has been abundance of doing , and of undoing , of forward and of retrograde movement . That great calamity , the capture of Warsaw , stands forth ia gloomy prominence . But no evejajt , nor series of events , however disastrous , can shake ^<> ur fajtji in that progress of n > anjkind whic h we believe to be the plan pf Providence . ]> Jpr are we at all disposed to think that even the
limited period which we yace now cpntemplating presents a preponderance of evil . The month ' s record has other inscriptions besides that of barbar rian triumph . We intend to offer a brief comment on the three or four most conspicuous events by wfricfo it has beep distinguished . Ju $ t a * itp rommen < $ n * eot we were apprize ^ ef jthe proj&t submitted by
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Politics qf the Month . 703
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POLITICS OP THE MONTH .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 703, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/51/
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