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    sense which is in human hearts * that love of what is great , pure , disinterested ., and lofty , is filled , satisfied , and expanded . Here is ethereal fire to kindle in the soul a more energetic and noble life than earth-can give ' . Here is love which can raise and purify , while it sways and delights the heart . Nowj * yJiaJ ^ ex ^

    God , Christ , and Eternity , tends also to bring and attach the heart to God . And in my mind nothing conduces so much to convert God ' s disclosures into man ' s convictions as the constant perusal of the sacred Scriptures , accompanied by constant prayer . In them is the story recorded of the Creator and the Saviour ' s love ; and recorded so as best to win and attach human

    sympathies . It . is a great evil to the Christian that he lives in an atmosphere in which are many motes to dim the eye of faith , and chills to refrigerate his affections ; and I know not but the particular atmosphere in which we , as Unitarians , live and breathe , may hold a more than equals proportion of these adverse influences . Flee then from the world to tHe Bible . Live in the air

    which it breathes , and under the skies which in it are warmed and illumined by the love of the Father and the Son . Take its descriptions as your prompters , its examples as your models , its disclosures as the framers of your creed . In all things corn pare yourselves with it ; and learn to be in thought , feeling , and action , what it would have you be . Should you find your heart cold , in comparison with the ardour-which it enjoins , invite and welcome

    the kindly warmth which radiates from its pages . Should you find your creed inferior to the fulness of its teachings , expand it to- the full stature of a perfect man in Christ . ' And here ht me submit , that whatever dignity , consistent with the word of truth , and that fundamental doctrine of the gospel , the proper humanity o ^ Christ , whatever dignity Can be lawfully ascribed to Christ , the same must conduce to move and sustain the heart in its

    attachment to him . Now there appears to me to he heights and depths yet not fully explored by those whose eyes have heen purged from human corruption at the fountain of truth \ heights and depths of honour to the Saviour , in the close relation that the Scripture teaches us he bore to God while on earth , and also in those relations which now iu heaven he bears to man . If the first be ( rue , if the union between his Father and him were so close , that in mind , will , and purpose , in holiness , and goodness , and power , f

    they could properly be' termed one ; ' if the Father imparted to him unlimited effusions of his spirit , if he thus raised him and honoured him , if this holy and exalted being condescended to be treated as a criminal , and died for us , do not those things , does not this glory , this perfectness , add a worth to his sufferings , a new claim on the heart , and a grandeur to the whole scene , which inspire the breast with emotions as tender as they are reverential ? And if the second be true , if . Jesus is engaged at the right hand

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    THE TRUTH TELLER . 269

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1833, page 269, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2621/page/13/