Current:

Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), October 1827, Edition 1 of 1, Page 767, Untitled Article

Page 767
Page 55
55 of 72

On this page

  • Text (4)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      Untitled Article

      abridged fcitn for the use of one of w \ v Magazines . After another hymn , the Rev * Robert Aspland proceeded to deliver the sermon , prefacing it by saying , that as the service had already been so well guarded from superstition , he should do no more than discourse on the several topics contained in the 4 th chapter of St . Paul ' s Epistle to the Ephealans , the 1 st to the 6 th verse Inclusive . General observations of the

      most valuable kind followed from the consideration of the former clauses of this paragraph ; but the preacher was disposed * in the existing circumstauces , to dwell particularly on the verse which terminates it ; pointing out iu language which ought never to be mistaken , that there is but one God , the Father of all , who is above all , and through all . and in

      us all . * A leading principle which the preacher aimed , in this discourse , to establish-aod i& illustrate , was the very general agreement among Christians in those doctrines which are maintained by Unitarians * Other denominations of believers have added to those doctrines , but those doctrines themselves they do not pretend to deny . This may Justly be deemed a presumptive proof of the tooth

      of Unitarianisn ) $ and in the way in which the argument was treated , it can scarcely fail to have left a very favourable impression of the reasonableness of our creed , and the scriptural authority of our worship . We have seldom heard a more ingenious , and altogether satisfactory , devotional discourse , and siucerely hope that the preacher will be induced , whether on this occasion or not , to add by the publication of it to the numerous

      « i The writer of this account will here refer to the ingenious use made of this rersei before the celebrated Presbytery at Exeter , in-the year 1719 , by Mr . Parr ( the ancestor of some of his early and highly-valued friends there ) . The love of interference with the faith of others

      had too plainly evinced itself , and several persons had been called on to remove the snspicion of heresy by the employment of some reputedly orthodox confession of faith . But when it came to the turn of that honest and scriptural presbyter to make his confession , his answer was to this effect .- ? * The worda of St . Paul alone

      I shall UBe on the present occasion — ' There is one Lord , one Faith , one Baptism , one God and Father of all , who fa above all , and through all / and I wish I could add—but the virulence of your temper prevents me from adding—* and in you all . "

      Untitled Article

      obligations which he has already confer " nid on the in < juiriiig public . The afternoon of this interesting day was spent together by a large proportion or the congregation , Mr . Mardon in the ciair . Many of the sentiments corresponded with those which had been recently expressed at the meeting at Canterbury ; the kindest wishes for the restoration of health to their last

      minister , now travelimg iu Italy : a spirit of sober , grateful , Christian feeling pervaded the meeting . The truly apostolic addresses of Mr . Holden were here also heard with profit and delight . The preachei who had instructed us in the morning , in a more familiar manner now

      animated us to zeal and perseverance ; several of the congregation caught the enthusiasm , and expressed their honest and zealous sentiments ; and many more , we are persuaded , will long retain a pleasing recollection and a beneficial impression of this day , devoted to Truth and Virtue . Maids tone , July 20 //* .

      Untitled Article

      North Eastern Unitarian Association The Annual Meeting of this Society was held at Wisbeach , on Thursday , the 12 th July . Mr . Selby , of Lynn , preached on the preceding evening from Psa . ex . 1 . On the Thursday morning , Mr . Tagart , of Norwich , delivered a discourse on the " true worshipers , " from John iv . 23 ; and in the evening he preached again from Matt . xvi . 16 *—19 , on the true chutCh .

      About eighty of the friends dined together at the White Hart Inn , Mr . Hursthouse in the Chair . Several appropriate sentiments were given ; and the company was addressed by Messrs . Tagart , Selby , Smith , Stanger , and Walker , on the various subjects naturally suggested by such meetings . The different services were respectably attended , and a considerable interest appeared to be felt in the objects of the Association , which it is hoped will be pcrnianeht .

      Untitled Article

      Synod of Ulster . ( Concluded from p . 712 . ) Thursday , June 28 . Test , or Declaration of Jutitk . Mr . Cooke rose and said , that the Synod were called on to put on record their opinions regarding certain great lending doctrines of faith . With this view , he was prepared with a list of the members , and was ready to affix a mark

      Untitled Article

      tntelligmcc + < - ~ SgnQ 4 qf UUstet . . 797

      Untitled Article

      IRELAND .

  • Citation
    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1827, page 767, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1801/page/55/