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wrote . The apostle ,. addressing those who had been converted from the corrupt community of the Ephesians , tells them , that by nature , i . e . ftefore they heard the Gospel , i . e . when they had only the light of nature to depend upon , they were children of wrath . Thus , he refers to
t " heif"forraer TCtuaT " condition , and not their condition by mere birth , or by mere natural constitution . So the passage in Romans , which represents some of the Gentiles as doing by nature the things required by the law , means , that without the light of the gospel they did the things required by the law .
COMMON AND UNCOMMON FKOPLE . A part of the title of the religious newspaper recently established at Brooklyn , Conn ., is ' Common People ' s Advkser . ' We find in the last number of that paper the following just an appropriate remarks in reference to the term Common People .
The title of our paper has led many to inquire , who are the com ? non people , and how are they distinguished from uncommon ? The physiology of man , as well as the scriptures , teaches that ' God hath made of one blood all the dwellers upon the earth . ' Therefore the distinction between the common and
uncommon people is not natural , but acquired . We have the character of each class given in the New Testament . In the 12 th chapter of Mark , the common people are mentioned as hearing Christ gladly , in distinction from those -uncommon
people , which go in long clothing , and love salutations in the marketplaces , and the chief seats in the synagogues , and the uppermost rooms at feasts ; which devour widow ' s
houses , and , for a pretence , make long prayers . Such were denounced by our Saviour ; and he exhorted the common people to beware of them . Uncommon people are opposed to the interests , rights , and improvement
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of the . many ; because the poverty , ignorance , and degradation of these may make it more easy for themselves to rise in wealth and influence . When the apostles were found instructing and healing all those who came to them from the cities and
villages round about , and had filled Jwuirateririvtt Saviour , the uncommon people , who feared the effects which might be produced by the diffusion of the truth , would have them beaten and imprisoned , notwithstanding the good they were doing . It is a striking
characteristic , of . uncommon people ( however few of them there may be in a place ) to reckon themselves the whole parish , town , or city . Thus , when Paul preached in Macedonia , and reformed the damsel , who brought her master much gain by soothsaying , her master arraigned
the Apostles before the rulers , and charged them with having greatly disturbed . the city :. . . ; They ,. had , JLost the source of-their unjust gains ; the common people were freed from a gross deception which had been practised upon them , and were instructed and comforted by the ^ preaching of Paul . None were troubled in the
city but the master of the damsel , and those who feared the truth . Yet they were such uncommon people in their own estimation , that they said the whole city was troubled , because , forsooth , they were displeased .
Again . Uncommon people clajm to themselves all the religion in the world ; they are confident of their own righteousness , and despise others . They profess a great concern for what they call the cause of God . But this concern is found to
be for the establishment of their own opinions ; or the promotion of their own interests . We have an example of this sort in the nineteenth chapter of Acts . Demetrius , the silversmith , and others of the same occupation , whose business was to make silver shrines for Diana , fouwd
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44 VNITAHIAN CHRONICLE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1833, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2607/page/12/
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