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and all-engaging truth of the Gospel , we fervently hope and believe that all men are rapidly approaching , and when the -glorious result shall have been attained , when Christ is all and in all , who of us will care what has become of the forms of * our probationary and transitionary state ? Heaven gained , the loveliest . scenes of earth may well be spared . • *
But Heaven cannot be gained by the neglect of earth . Truth will never be won by continuing the forms in which she dwells with the sons of men . Infancy is the prelude to youth ; youth prepares the way to manhood . ; and the man leads on to ^ the immortal . Thus eternal bliss is gained through the decaying portions of earthly'happiness—so-with Gospel truth . All the forms of religion are ministering servants to lead the soul to God ; nor is the end to be gained apart from the divinely appointed means .
What , then , is indifference to Unitarianism but disloyalty to God ? It is a neglect of the means in a rash aspiring at the end . It is a forfeiture of the truth urfder ' av , guise of respect for it . Truth—pure truth--4 s the reward of labour ; to win you must woo ; and if , while you think Unitarianism to be truthy ^ you act by it as though you thought it error , you forfeit by your apathy all claim in that triumph which will take place among all good men when truth shall stand forth divested of her earthly
garments , and clothed in the . rg )) e 3 of--eternal benignity and power . Ah , then , many =. a name will be honoured thrice gloriously which men in" ignorance cast out as vile . The sufferer for conscience-sake will prove the victor . An Eternal halo will surround his brow whose temples were dishonoured with thorns , and the martyr ' s crown will shine more resplendentIy than would the accumulated rays of all earthly diadems . Nor do we doubt that then , a Socinus- —a Priestley—a Lindsey- —will be recognised
as fellow-labourers with . Christ in the great work of ransoming a wQrld . To every believer , then , in the proper unity and essential goodness of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , whether minister or hearer , we would say , hold fast the form of sound words ; as you have been bold to think for yourself , so be diligent iii aiding the emancipation of others ; by your life , by your words , preach and teach the uncorrupted word of life ; go forth and send forth , thrust" in thy sickle and reap , for the time is come for thee to reap , for the harvest of the earth is ripe . ' .
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Matthrw xi . 20—24 . PaUt II . Tub contrast which our Saviour draws , in the passage referred to above , between those cities wherein most of his mighty works were done / and certain cities which hud met with a terrible
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1833, page 361, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2627/page/9/
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