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stop at the very point where faith wavers , reason is astounded , and the heart burdened with the rayless , joyless cloak of mystery ? No , the current of our emotion is never checked by a doubt as to the object towards which it should flow . A Unitarian can never experience that mental anxiety which harassed and
we ^ rJea _ J he _ jirjQjaW ^ his heart were not in unison . With us there may be a full accordance of all the powers . The mind may put up its song , and the soul and the heart theirs , and all may unite in one choral symphony , ascribing Q blessing and honour , glory and power , to God , who sitteth on the throne , and to the Lamb tor ever . ' But while the doctrine of the incarnation revolts the mind .
that of the atonement , understood in its ordinary sense , wounds and grieves the heart . ' Jesus placated God , ' says one , and the bosom shudders at the thought of a universe subject to the will of a wrathful Deity . ' Jesus enabled him to be merciful / affirms another ; and the affections naturally turn from the side of weak ? - , ness to the sideof power—flrom him who would , but could not , to him who both would and could save the world . ' Jesus died for
a favoured few ; ' ' no , ' rejoins an objector , for all ; but a few only will reap the benefits of his death ; ' and a gush of sorrow swells and agitates the bosom , in the thought of the myriads who hav © bejen , atfd are born to hope , die , and perish . Room" enough
here for feeling ; but it is feeling that is more honourable to man than God , and is any thing ? but akin to that peace and joy in a devout mind , which the genuine gospel is fitted to occasion . Oh , compared with these views , how glad the thought that the Father reigns ! that the benignity of the Saviour on earth is an exposition of the Father ' s rule throughout all time ! God seen , not in the
light of human systems , but in the face of Jesus Christ , is like Jesus , full of tender love and pity . In the bosom of his Son was love wide enough to embrace a world , and pure enough to die that the world might live . Can we believe less of God who sent him ? If Jesus was God ' s irrjage , there is truth in the description of God ^" ' as a Father , truth to sway , and delight the heart ; and then , too , is there hope for man , for the whole of the human family , I mean . It is difficult to believe that any sincere servant of God will be rejected before his bar who prayed even for his murderers , and
framed himself the plea , * she hath done what she could / And his heart must be cast in a different mould from mine , and into his secret I neverWish to conW , whose bosom does not spring spontaneousl y towards a God whose tender mercies are , and ever will be , over all his works , does norglow in preferring a faith which comprises all his brethren within the arms of \ ove to one that consigns the majority- —it may be his own flesh and blood- ^ -the wife of his bosom or the child of his care , to endless burnings and the intercourse of fiends . No , tell me not that the eye of the Unitarian is less glad than the believer's in a partial and
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THE TfcUTH fELLEft . 267
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1833, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2621/page/11/
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