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      and best age , wilfntt doubt be realized , in a far more extensive degree , when the knowledge of the one Jehovah , and of his Messiah , shall be diffused throughout the world . And what will then constitute its glorious excellencies , should be the present aim of every community of professing Christians , and of every individual society : what the Apostle laid down as the objects of the various appointments of the great and only Head of the Christian church , should be made our objects . In proportion as they are , will the " law of love" be fulfilled . —Happy indeed will be the state of that Christian

      community in which the apostolic principles are carried into full effect ; and however difficult and remote the complete attainment of it , still it is worthy to be our aim ; and by proper efforts some approximation may be made to it . The principles at least should influence us in all our societies for the promotion of the great purposes of Christian love . For this which has brought us together , I can form no better desire than that it may itself exhibit their efficacy , and may promote it among our body at large . Whatever disappointments and discouragements may attend its operation , in particular departments , yet if it make us more " of one heart and one soul , " the best results may be hoped for . Well will it be for us all , in our wider and narrower bodies of

      Christian connexion , to keep these steadily in view , as our guide and aim : they are blessed in their immediate effects ; and blessed indeed will they be if they gradually bring about such a state of things among us , that those who share in the faith and worship of one God , even the Father , in the name of the Lord Jesus , shall form one community , harmoniously united , and firmly compacted , by influences derived from the spirit of their great Head ; allwithout envy , or jealousy , or servility , or arrogance , or intemperate zeal , or frigid indifference—contributing mutual aid , according to their several talents

      and means of Christian usefulness , to the religious edification and welfare of the whole , individually and collectively , and to the diffusion of Christian truth and duty among others ; each looking upon every other as equally a part of the body with himself , however differently Providence may have placed him in the honours and interests of the world , and ever having the eye of faith directed to the final union of ail who " fear God and work righteousness . "Even so , come Lord Jesus .

      male and female , bond a . nd free , —one well-compacted , united body ; for the work of the ministry ; for the edification of the body of Christ ( i . e . the Christian church ); ( 13 ) till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God , to perfeet manhood , to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ , ( that is , perhaps , to that complete stature ., that just extent , or perfection , which the church of Christ ought to attain ; ( 14 ) so that we may no longer be children , tossed to and fro and

      carried about by every wind of doctrine , by the cunning artifice of men , by their craftiness employed for an artful system of deception ; ( 15 ) but that , maintaining the truth in love , we may in all things grow up unto him , to the moral likeness of him who is the Head , even Christ : ( 16 ) from whom , as from the head conveying influence and nourishment to every member , the whole body , ( being harmoniously united and firmly connected , by means of the mutual aid of every organ , according to the proportionate operation of each partjj thriveth rrjv av £ v }< rw rov crcof ^ urot ; iroteirai unto the edification of itself in love .

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      324 Reasons for mutual Encouragement and Co-operation *

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 324, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/28/