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ance . And as this is the right ( though it may be difficult ) feeling of endurance , so is it , and more easy , of anticipation . Let us look forward in the light of divine love . If the peril come , it has its mission ; it comes from God , and for his purposes . If so we anticipate , we may be sure that to us it will be a mission of mercy . We shall not be afraid , for we shall have nothing to fear . " Though he slay me , yet will I trust in him : " " and that trust is amolv iustified . and will be irloriouslv trust in him ; and that trust is amply justifiedand will be gloriously
, rewarded . *—Moral Cautions , &c , pp . 14 , 15 . Scarcely had these remarks reached the public , through the press , when the following prayers were issued by authority , to be used * in all churches and chapels during the continuance of our danger from the pestilence . * They are inserted entire , not having before been put on yecord in our pages .
* Most gracious Father and God , who hast promised forgiveness of sins to all them that , with hearty repentance and true faith , turn unto Thee , look down , we beseech Thee , from Heaven , Thy dwelling-place , upon us , Thy unworthy servants , who , under an awful apprehension of Thy judgments , and a deep conviction of our sinfulness , prostrate ourselves before Thee . We acknowledge it to be of thy goodness
alone , that whilst Thou hast visited other nations with pestilence , Thou hast so long spared us . Have pity , O Lord , have pity on Thy people , both here and abroad . Withdraw Thy heavy hand from those who are suffering under Thy judgments , and turn away from us that grievous calamity , against which our only security is in Thy compassion . We confess , with shame and contrition , that , in the pride and hardness of our hearts , we have shown ourselves unthankful for thy mercies , and have followed our own imaginations instead of Thy holy laws . Yet , O merciful Father , suffer not Thy destroying Angel to lift up his hand against us , but keep us , as Thou hast heretofore done , in health und safety ; and grant that , being warned by the sufferings of others to repent of our own sins , we may be preserved from all evil by Thy mighty protection , and enjoy the continuance of thy mercy and grace , through the merits of our only Mediator and Advocate , Jesus Christ . Amen /
* O Almighty God , who , by the many instances of mortality which encompass us on every side , dost call upon us seriously to consider the shortness of our time here upon earth , and remindest us that in the tnidst of life we are in death , so teach us to number our days , that we may apply our hearts unto . wisdom . Give us grace to turn unto Thee with timely repentance , and thus to obtain , through the merits of our
Saviour , that pardon to-day , which to-morrow it may be too late to seek for ; that so being strengthened by Thy good Spirit against the terrors of death , and daily advancing in godliness , we may at all times be ready to give up bur souls into Thy hands , O gracious Father , irt the hope of a blessed immortality , through the mediation , and for the merits , of Jesus Christ our Lord . Amen . '
The first of these forms is particularly objectionable . Where a judgment is assumed , the connexion between the transgression and the suffering should be pointed out We are expressly forbidden by our Lord to infer the one from the other . The assumption is at vari-
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48 Critical tfotices ^ Single Sermons .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1832, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1804/page/48/
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