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BY NATURE CHILDREN OF WRATH.
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toms has led sbnie of them to inquire anxiously whether a community of goods , as practised in the Church at Jerusalem , is nofc binding on Christians at the present day , and whether our Saviour ' s injunction to wash one another ' s feet , and the ancient mode o £ . salutation , _ are-notoi-per-petual-ob ljgation !
The Reformers , though strenuously insisting on the Ancient Gospel and Ancient Order , as- they understand them , profess , nevertheless , like the Christians , to be irreconcilable foes to sectarianism , and ready , at all times , to meet their brethren of every name , On the common ground of an lionest belief in the Bible . For
this reason they contend , that they themselves do not constitute a new sect , and , also , that they can consistently * fraternize' with Unitarians , Trinitarians , and Universalists ; not , of course , as such , "but as willing to lay aside - their peculiarities , to make use' of Scripture only in " the expression of their opinions , and to be guided b y Scripture only in their practices .
Motions towards an union of the ' Christians' with the * Reformers ' were made from time to time : but the latter were slow to connect themselves with a body of professors who were avowedly Unitarians , who rejected the popular notions of atonement , and would not make immersion aw express condition of admission to
the Lord ' s table . By friendly conferences , and mutual explanations , an adjustment of these difficulties was , at length , effected early in 1832 , between these two denominations , in the neighbourhood of Lexington and Georgetown , in Kentucky ; and there is every reason to expect that the union and amalgamation , there commenced under the happiest auspices , will pervade the West .
Four or five years ago the * Christians' entered with considerable eagerness into the Trinitarian controversy ; but latterly , and especially einqe their union with the * Reform-
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ers , * they have refrained from it , directing their exertions to the direcspreading of the word of truth .
[ The two following Articles are copied from the Christian Register , Boston , U . S . — _ Ed . ]—— —— , _ - _ w—_< - ^
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The brief exposition here given of the passage in Eph . ii . 3 . * And were by nature children of wrath , ' is from the' Brooklyn Monitor , ' where it appeared as a communication under the signature of G . R . N .
It appears to me that a doctrine very injurious to the character of God , and very inconsistent with common sense , has been drawn from this verse in consequence of a
misapprehension of the phrase , * by nature / By some it is supposed to denote the state in which every "individual of the hutnan race comes into the world . ~ By others it is" supposed to denote the state to which the
nature which God has given man inevitably leads him . Now , it appears to me , that it can be shown by a simple comparison of Scripture with Scripture , that the phrase has neither the one nor the other of these meanings ; and that to suppose that it has ., is to suppose that the Bible
contradicts itself . In Rom . ii . 14 . we read , * For when the Gentiles , which have not the law , do by nature the things contained in the law . ' Now if the phrase * by nature * means the state into which all men are ^ inevitably led by their natural consti- *
tution , then we have a contradiction in Scripture , and that , too , pom the pen of the sanie writer , one verse implying that some Gentiles do by nature the things required by the law , and the other , that they are all children of wrath . The
contradiction is removed by supposing the phrase , l by nature , ' to denote the general state of Gentiles , unblessed by the privileges of Christianity , at the time when St . Paul
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VtiTtA&im CHRdNI £ ! liEi 43
By Nature Children Of Wrath.
BY NATURE CHILDREN OF WRATH .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1833, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2607/page/11/
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