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    theories , more thoroughly uade ^ atpod * aMnjore finely held . But there is yet more than this essept ^ al 40 th ^ con ^ pletion of the wop }* of religious refora ^ ic ^ JT ^ re nftusjk fce a tbifldU process , a deveiapqaect of the moral kw ^ jP 9 Wf ^ t p W 4 t ^ nd ^ nci ^ r ) of , $ & tW # * wfciqk had £ eea sought $ 0 ^^ tiv ^ Jy , a ^ fphj » i » pi < w ^ ^ ablyw JDheje roust be a third epoch , analogous the

    to , th ^ w ^ gli £# &ufs j ^ ^ HPaiad ^ individual con vert , who , having l ^ $ Ofjpup ^ Jojig e and then with argument , add ^ j ^ bi ^ self to the uhinjajq 4 ask of , devo ut reflection , naeditatiou , pelfapp } ic ^ 9 n >; the 4 e ^ elo 4 > m € Bt and regulation of his feelings , his imaginations , and his hopes- This is the moral harvest of all the labour which has preceded . This , is the end which crowns the work . Doctrines now begin to ed in

    be contemp ^ thei r proper light , and to do their proper duty . They present themselves to the mind , not as hard propositions , but as living ; principles . The-chaos has become a harmonized world , and that world becomes surrounded with an atmosphere ; beams of light play through it ; sounds of jnetody vibrate in it ; the beauty of colour is generated by it ; and man in * hales , it , and become * a living soul .

    It is to this last state of things that such a style of preaching as that of Dr . Changing , is peculiarly adapted . There is not in him the originality and excuraiveness x > f thought which distinguished Dr . Priestley ; his intellect is perhaps lass sturdy , and in some respects his philosophy less sound , than that of JVlr * Bekham ; hut he has a stronger sense than either of the grand and the beautiful ; his power is better fitted , and more uniformly directed , to

    the excitement of feeling ; he cultivates the love of that truth which they discovered and demonstrated ; and furnishes the needful supplement to their labours by extending the dominion of pure religion from the head to the heart , and devoting himself to the display of its richness as the source of sentiments , emotions ,, affections , of spiritual vitality and spiritual enjoyment , Illustrated by the successive exertions of men to each of

    whom Providence seems to have assigned his appropriate agency , l /« itarian Christianity assumes its perfect form , and we behold it as something not p fely to be believed , but to be felt and loved &Q& admired and gloried in . We see exhibited its fitness for man and its fulness of blessing No longer acting / iqerejy on the reason , it Jkindles up the splendour of the imagination , and arouqd it the affections cling . How rich ft appeals for the

    supply of every want which our nature feels 1 How admirable its cpnformity with the principles of pur moral constitution I How gracefully it descends tp our w ^ a ji n ^ sse ^ ^ nd how te aderly it soothe our . so ^ rowss , and how amply it realizes ; our nohlesl anticipations ; and , above *\\ , \ wv wonderful is ^ he elasticity ( w /? MqWi npt whpt els « to ^ all iti . Jhv wh % Q ^ it fidapl ^ itei ^ lf to the &

    most igoof ant , &nd confined uiider 8 tandu > g , ^ pcj y p mfomm \ m Vpost efilighfeeneii iRtelleot , and ^ soars abov ^ the wo # t exaHfd ^ eiM ua . A Wlps along the feieb ^ of mankind , thosq who are , )^ g ^» g in , ^ yjrc « Kf iHtf is " fe ^ t to the / ame and eyear t 0 tie bhr ^ f \^ hi ^ i ^ k ^ if ^ m ^ ho ^ 9 m f ^^ Sad it <* j ^ r 4 $ { jad ^<*>«; Bnd ^ B hear , j ^ fc ugsp ^ Kfe / statt ^ ^ rQflJWd 1 C ^ n w ^ j ! 'V ^/ Ai 4 fifci » a boiri * Vmtom ^^ wtimbv Im ^ btbirt 4 m iifeihe trutfM > Me l ^ € ^> r « D 4 f ?^ AviQi ^ p /> ^ ^ ippti i % pill faiqteUmmUfind ma ^ ogWD ^ r ^ nr ^^^^^ in all 1 ^ la ^ tw ^ ruppn ibe ^ rt ^ dlifor . ^ r ^^ att ^^ n ^ w ^ , p 4 ^ wij ^ h , and , th ^^ iniulsuiis n Mppli ^ t to » , ih ^* wietoite jw&tm of hHimw < jimmore

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/35/