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    unspeakable cotfifbrt be it spokenthe God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament . We do not , if I aaay be allowed a familiar expression , jaaore apposite than any graver one that occurs to me , see in either an old friend with a new face ,

    still less ^ rith three faces . Our Saviour has prescribed a form of prayer which , in reference to the Power addressed , we are not at liberty ta travel out of . ( Itself a decisive argument with me ; for if a Christian choose to abide by that prayer exclusively—and why should he not ?—what becomes of the

    Trinity ?) The mouth that cannot lie has declared God to be " One , and his name One ; " and any construction of difficult passages , in disagreement with that and similar assertions , conveys the monstrous insinuation that God is an

    equivoeator—that divine truth is not the same yesterday , to-day ahd for ever . In result , I would most strenuously exhort and , if it were practicable , bind

    the obligation upon , young persons * whatever be the system of faith in which they have been trained , to reflect tow many and discordant ones prevail in Christendom ; to believe it possible that their minds may have received

    erroneous impressions on the most important of all subjects : to consider how irrational it is to let the fnere accident of having been born within the pale of a particular church determine their religious creed ; how imperiously it is their duty , ! the Almighty having condescended to make a

    revejation of his will , to derive the knowledge of it from Himself , in preference to any Truman expositions * of it ; and , suspending ^ 11 preconceived notions and warping influences , with au humbled , but inquisitive and searching nund , an ( j wit ^ improve ( j Version ot the New Testament beside ti ^ m ^ to read the Bible . - ., J ~ - > m BRRYISL ;>

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    inserted in tys Book of exquisite criticisms on Shakespear : 49 language of poetry falls naturally in with the language of power . The imagination is an exaggerating and exclusive faculty : it takes from one

    thing to add tp another : it accumulates circumstances together to give the greatest possible effect to a fovounte object . The understanding is a dividing and measuring faculty : it judges of things , not according to their

    immediate impression on the mind , but according to their relations to one another . The one is a monopolizing faculty , which seeks the greatest quan tity of present excitement , by inequality and disproportion 5 the other is a distributive faculty , which seeks the

    greatest quantity of ultimate good , by justice and proportion . The one is an aristocratical , the other a republican faculty . The principle erf poetry is a

    very anti-levelling principle . It aims at effect , it exists by contrast * It admits of no medium . It is every thing by excess . It rises above the ordinary standard of sufferings mid

    crimes . It presents a dazzling appear ance . It shews its head , tuiretted , crowned and crested . Its front is gilt and bloodstained . Before it * it carries noise , and behind it tears / It has its altars and its victims ; sacrificers , human sacrifices . Kings , priests , nobles are its train-bearers , tyrants and slaves its €

    executioners . Carnage is its daughter / Poetry is right-royal . It puts the in * dividual for the species , the one above the infinite many , might before right . A lion hunting a flock of sheep , or a herd of wild asses , is a more poetical

    object than they ; and we even take part with the lordly beast , because our vanity , or some other feeling , makes us disposed to place ourselves in the si *^ at 4 on of the strongest party . " , p&e principle heTe stated was const 1 *» tly i ^ lfea ^ ^ its obvious pl ^ ledWe .,. Hfe o ^^ de othe caus e of tfmmy fiffipe ^ Aifc ^ the imaginmttn mm ? thmiaff ^ crtsb- He knew ^ M ^ ma ^ mel ^ . ye « nto ? iit 5 thf ; heart ofetfiflii ^^ dto |!| iri !^ flfejij >^^ oftfti hgH ^^ privileges of a corrupt ndfelp tyytffeiit f the " time ^ Bto ^ hj *^

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    The Nonconformist . No . XVI . 95

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    The J ^ onconfiti ^ kt . « ^ i m ? . * i * No . ; Xyl \ ' ;¦ ^ " Vn the supposed AM& ^ I ^ Wetical FacuUi ^ tkam 'S | $ Ppfe MioSSP * ° » the tragedy orGbJaiSatis , w ® fc is

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1820, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2485/page/31/