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THE I A .m IB COIR ID IS Bl X.MEREDIT DITOH AND PROPRIETOR. DC TOTES 10 RCLIQION, MOULITT, LIT KR ATU R . A O R I c U LTC1E AKD OEMZXAL IKTCLLIOEXCC. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1815. WIIOLi: No. 4K' II. 4 ::::::::::::::: -Vr-UOD ' - ) : , f. V " I ' ' ! . -if'' ' L VOL. . - R ALEIGH, TKKMS. I TV misht be friven bv the active kpfhd. r I t 6 ,o. t -7"'. wii-4uoii-5 Wn n apeopie on me oauDatn, anu teems at r - v'b iuiuMa oi ihb poor. 10 account for t : he says he is Ihe preat tnnsa rf the, t:-: . .u . .. j o v. i'wi uic iiriiiLf in me mipr vmntnm bkH .Recorder is published every Saturday, and is T bribers at Two Dollats per annum, payable i sent in all (f'iwnn" be delayed lojnger than fAfe::non7ijf,'tvo fiftv cents will he charged and if longer than iW" dollars. . .nni lis. - - .. . ... V1 lirnromunications, to secure attention, innst be post T-Agents who act Rraujuousiy, ana suoscuoers wno f f..: nnlv excepted. P::,h. annual term. 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The r?- a' Teligion in a Christian church is, "is I h already stated, a common concern; there isivr or cvery of e t0 feel, apd something ery one to do ; all :an help, anoeach should jjJas much ns he can. Deacons and Elders, a (fC 'jl degree of responsibility lies on you! You may t3;r Jel ave cousjdeJf-how much the spiritutSI church depends on you. Neit to the pastor, you-rpuse it to activity or lull it to indolence ; you chill or cherish its ardor j you quicken or crush its energies. JIany a Morldly-mincled, timid, or lukewarn deacon or el der has done more to brevent a revial, than his l , . . : . .1 .L I. ' L..I J J T" pastor, nowcicr. iniciik upju wumuuiw promote itw oucn men paralyze me zeai oi ineir minister ; they are dead weights upon his ener gies, and obstacles in the way of his usefulness. ' Their cold scepticism about the work, their heart Jess indiflerencei their groundless suspicions, their puerile Tears of novelty and fanaticism perplex and binder the pastor, and frfehten or petrify the peo ' pie. Dreadful inuploy merit of official influence! fallen up- & loss watching the na Antfivt ft nrVhg,on f lhfy hcaF 5h? BPel, it the disease. I have been watching the , luuok mo ursi preacnea to them nt their own hou- of the .m. rUn tvith no liuls inte . iu rr;.,- 4 . , ; . " T - -.vg ,ua,c r w.wM urawre inusi oe camea to been Rompwhn, nfTrH hv it. nnd hv k. .. . . . ! " J " WVVU ti V The m, lor they are too ignorant and too indolent J ing to,ascertain the cause. I think I have it. An go lorth and seek it. Christians, there are : anecdote told me when a boy will, I think. cive USands Of immortal crenturpa nrisriinfT in ; ' b Tremble at.incurrhv; sucl have not courage or ardor lion, resign it, and retird responsibility. If you for your sta- frorn ths front rank to S ?ou Dut never ses. the to thousa at your doors 1 bouls are continuallvroinsr down to the pit from the houses that are on the left and right hand of your own. " : . Men, w'omen, and their families, are continually dropping into eternal burnings, almost before your eyes! And will you not go to their houses and en treat them to think of their souls welfare 1 If you have not much courage to speak, you can take tx: religious tract, and beg them to read it; and by an excange of it you may continually sup ply them with a course of religious instruction, by which they may be made wise unto salvation. Beloved brethren, let me entreat you to consid er the subject with all that deliberate attention and deep seriousness which its momentous, its infinite, its eternal importance demands. ' Every sign of the times, every thing in the state of the church, and every thing in the condition of the world, calls upon professing Christians to arouse from their slumbers and to look around them. Even the wise virgins are asleep, and that, too, amidst voices speaking to them from every quarter, and saying, "knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation near er lhan when we bojieved. The night is far .spent, the day is at hand ; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light." Let these heart-stirrinp: words enter into your souls, and call; you forth to spiritual activity Oh that I had at command "thoughts that breathe and words that burn!" I would turn them in a stream of impassioned eloquence upon your spir its, and endeavor to beat you away from that giffl ty selfishness which has engrossed the people of God, and impel you to a combined, and vigorous, and anxious eflbrt for the revival of luke-warm professors, and the conversion of impenitent sin-1 -u;.- ners. ihe subject has not yet laia now ot your imagination, your heart, and your consciences; A I 1 I 1 L! A . . . luiiiuvr-ucuier once uireu man o attend a saw mill. He gave him the old-fahioned Yankee dish of pudding and milk for breakfast, dinner and supper, day after day. The poor man grew weak for want of proper food. One morning he saw bis employer coming to the mill, and he shut the gate nearly down, so that the mill just moved, and seated himself as his employer came in. He, in astonishment, enquired. 'What is the matter null the millV Why, said the man,dont yon hear what it saysV 'No, indeed,' responded the employ- er, 'what does it say V 'Listen P said the laborer, 'it says, pud-ding and milk p-u-d-i-n-g a-n-d m-i-l-k.' f 1 be man went home and told his wife to boil some pork and squash for dinner, the laborer ate at dinner with appetite, and repaired again to the mill. He soon saw the owner earn ing and hoisting the gate well up, he seated him self as in the morning. 'Well how does your mill go now V 'Why dont you hear what it saysV 'No,' said the other. 'Well, it says, j pork and squash, pork and squash, pork and squash. The She wept then throwing her arms about his known as the poet of Arcadia, fell at the lntt!c neck, whispered, jZutphen, in his tbirty-sccond r; Bcrnm-mi; Charley, if I culd only took upon vour lovin? fvlo has not heard of Heaninont, and Ia.-fd.t-r !l face, and our dear mother, and all my swert died at thirty; Ouray, whose rt Venice TrcMrt friends I should not so much mind bcinj abut uo ' cd" still keeps possession of the islasr, at ihiri- in darkness to cvery thing else. j four ; Collin, whose exquisite otirt were pulliJ.e,! Charles comforted her as well as he could ; but i at tbe age of twenty-six, ut thirty-six ; Hums at when he looked at her paleface, he felt very sad, thirty-aeven; and finally Byron at thiny.nir.c. and loved her more and more. , We desire to mention a few jllurtraJns ij.ne Not long after this little Julia became very sick, la other department?, whose sta.7 tt in briiJiincy and her mother and brother watched over her, and at early aeea. Amon names dear to the heart prayea earnestly tor ner, out ner neaveniy rather ; of lovers of harmony, stands prt-emment tku of Aloznrt. rrom his cradle to his grave, thss iUcI son of melody was a musician, nimugh h hort life he devoted himself unceasingly to his fnorite art, and his voluinnioua productions arc proofs his industr)'. Yet rapidly as te composed, a'L that we possess of hia prot!uciiotH arc perAvt ai.l complete ; "for so delicate, snys n crilicwnnshU sense of the beautiful, that ho rrer was Kati,firl with any one of his product ion!,3inlil it had receiv ed all the petfection lie could give it by the inot minute and elaborate correction! Ever atrivin after higher and higher degrees of excellencr, and existing only for hi art, he scarcely suffered eveu the vissiblc approach of death to withdraw him a moment from his beloved studies! The Ilequicni of Mozart, his last musical composition, is invest- the circuman Foctry and ro- was about to take her to a better homo on h'zh. The day before she died, tho lay a short time in her mother's lap. Her brother Charles stood by and held her hand in his, and looked sorrowfully upon her sweet face. She was very weak," but talked some in a low voice, 'Mother said she, 'are there any blind persons in heaven V 'No, my child,' answered her mother, 'but why do you ask V ' 'Oh ! I have been thinking since I lay here how good God has always been to us, and what a bless ed God ho is and then I thought how I should love to look nt Him for ever. It makes me full of joy to think that when I get to heaven I, may open my eyes and see all around me see ivery thing in that bright world. But, mother, when you and Charley get there, too, you must come to your own Julia, and tell her who you are, and show me, too, which my dear employer concluded to furnish his men with meat-j father is who is there now, for you know I never and vegetables. Now, Messrs. Editors, my opinion is, if the pas tor in the .Land of Nod will give his people a little pork snd squash instead of continually feeding them on pudding und milk, that not only the symptoms, but the disease of which he complains, will entirely disappear. This is only my opinion ; you have it for nothing. A Subscriber of the Reflectoii. Land of Nod, Aug. 12, 1S45. j The editor thinks the Land of Nod must be ve ry extensive, for one of these communications was saw any of you here.' The sweet child was too weak to talk any more then but she kissed her mother and Charley, and looked very happy. The next day God took hor to himself, and for the first lime opened her eyes, which never aain will be closed, in a glorious and holy heaven. There the earnest desire of her pious heart .mny be granted, and her song of praise to God's great name will be far sweeter than the sweetest music of eat th. Dear children, will you not remember often m;w m Rh T.lnn,? th ct Jn Np, Hmn. ' to thank God for the blessing of sight it has come near to you, but has not come into a spiritual, warmhearted, one who uses the ofiice it has often been the topic of conversation, of deep musing. Do consider the present aspect of the world. Old institutions are changing or falling around us; society is in a state the dread of in- the rear. ' i But what a blessing ia prudent, devotee, oeacon one wno u .u e um , of fluctuation and transformation ; JTClUana is alive to every cooa woru uuu worn . . tnmttf uao :ntn nmnet n f., ; . unhandy, the pastor should . be . ladiBerenr to j tie authority of venerated narres and systems has suojecc oi. revivals, ie ui uicu m,..s . ul- Der:shej: and a trrand strussle for the mastery is M CI V- W W coming on between the spirit of infidelity and the fore hitn in an affectionate and respectful manner. ..jSreat caution, I admit, is necessary in the man agement of an attempt so delicate, and so difficult. They must be careful not to disgust by any thing like dictation, nor weary by inj udicious importu nity; but still it is their solemn duty to; bring the biect under pastoral xevievv. On the other ... . .1 Wed of God. Already the foe is in the field ; his forces are marshalled ; and confident in the assurance of victory, he is prepreparing for the attack. Shall the church of God be supine nnd indolent 1 Shall she alone be inert t Shall there hp rpv5vl nnd ncrprrv everv where else bm there 1 hand, it may be soraetirnfes necessary for them to t Qh m , ghe arise aR(j ird hersef fo - lhe .. ... Jr i at. r . .1 . .1 d restrain or mouuy uie eiJ.us.oi.s oi u uibicmperiru co-nflic, and take to herself the whole armor of zeal, which are poured forth by a rash and inex- nrt(, sh(, miwr nnnv n nnit'mn whirh shnll perienced minister, whos ardor burns with a wild j pnnhp hpr tft . . a(iantntTft nf M;s.;ny c;rcnm- dangerous fury .B-iV apathy, ;nect and j stances . tQ the0Dromot:on of her inter- . ' . . ... -tor, disregard tothe chu opposition, on the pan ofj church officers, betray n i state of mind unbefitting Itheir' station, and mam tfest indiSerence to religion, contempt for the pas rch, a strange and guilty concern about the salvation of irnmbrtal souls, arid a fearful oblivion of their accountability to vhrist. The pious and spiritua, of both sexes, mav be of ! members of the .church, rrrea't service by continu ally looking round them io notice any who appear to be under serious impression, to encourage them with kind sympathy, and! to be to them as con ductors to the pastor. Many a blossom of hope fal piety might be thus p reserved, which would be otherwise lost; and by the blessing of iGod npon Daimsteriaf solicitude and vis i lance, might be ri- Ped into the fruits of rihteousness'which are oy Jesus Christ .unta the er yes cannot be on all rhi glory of Go.l. ) A preach- his hearers, especially - congregation is large, ana inereiore ine eyes Jwjhe more pious of his fipek should be'employed w aim, to observe the.anxious look, the sufTused ey which indicates the anxious inquirer, and 'hich seems to say: ''What shall I do to be sav-e-n How eminently dseful might all be in this ay, and yet how few attempt it! Many would W in selfish eniovment. or in cold formality, in ueir ests the changes and events.' which are continually transpiring on the great theatre of this world. She must be more united, more spiritual, more fervent in prayer, more zealous in action ; and then will she appear "bright as the sun, fair as the moon, and terrible, a j an army with banners." ' Every thing yet devised by the wisdom of the church for 'the benefit otthe world, languishes for want of a revival of religion. ; Bible and Tract So cieties haye poured their streams of moral influence through the remote and desolate places of our de moralized population,; but they yet appear like the deserts and the marshes that are given to salt. We have kindled, by our missionary zeal, a flame on Zion's hill, to be a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of God's people, Israel ; but how dim is its beam, how feeble its power, to illumi nate the nations that sit in darkness, and .the re gion of the shadow of death! After near "half a century's labors, how little have we done" to evan gelize the globe. ? Is it not a time' to inquire into the cause of this want of greater success 1 And would not inquiry convince us that it is. tbe Ian cuid condition of our personal religion 1 Professing Christians, you must awake, indeed you must. God is calling to you. "Turn not away from him that speaketh." "Awake, awake ; From the Ntw York Recorder. ' CHARITY, la the hour o! keenest sorrow In lhe hour of deepest wo, Wait not for the coming morrow, To the pad and suflering go ; Make it thy since rest pleasure. To administer relief . Freely opening thy treasure , , To assuage a brother grief. .... Go, and seek the orphan sighing , Seek the widow in her tear. As on mercy's pinions flying, Go, dispel their darkest fears; Seek the stranger, sad and weary. Pass not on tbe other side, Though the task be sad and dreary, Heeding not tbe scorn of pride. Go, with manners unassuming, In a meek and quiet way, O'er the lather, ne'er presuming. Though thy brother sadly stray;. "Tis a Saviour's kind compassion Tis bis righteousness alone. All unmerited salvation That around thy path has shone. When thy heart U warmly glowing, With the sacred love of prayer, Be tby works of kindness flowing Not as with a miser's care ; Duty e'er should be thy watchword Pity drop the balmy tear, Always toward the fallen cherish Sympathy and love sincere. ; THE BUND GIRL Let me give you a short account of a little blind girl. Her name was Julia. She had never in her whole life seen any thing at all. When she became old enough and strong enough to walk, she was led around by her brother Charles, who was two years older than Julia. Charles used to take notice of almost every thing which could be seen, and try to tell his blind sister about it. - One pleasant summer day, he took her by the naitN j - A.Kr.. a r . utr ii r innn i ri v n f- v n v ki u-; u iiiir zw iv 1111 11 ; t i . a rv b -r ' uuiiu, uuu aiiw w avuajvswiwu uii u w - - - Jor directing a 00k of sympathy to the afmentSfy0 Jerusalem; loos! thyself "from" the pleawnt field, together. He Ulked toher a. they rickcweepiog, pgonixing sool, m the ve- Lds of thy neck, 0 captive daughter of Zion" i went a,onS abou lhue 8. and the soft j w seat. Revivals can never be expected, And m dear breath r may ufal dtf& pirit : peen rrKss and the teauttTul flower and I the such apathy fremiins; no, never; till all the on a d rf VeRle'costtn answer to oni-Vf 8f every thng he could think of Z' ? lhe Church is M forth in lhc y of Ved prayer, descended on the infant church, bap- make her happy. By and by she grew weary merest and energetic activity. ; , ' i w th celestial fire, and qualify wa k when you cannot W and-'ntfraatf females may. and should 4 ,"1.. J nv,J tu ,;rtn.: see and they sat down under a large shady tree I lilll U11U UVIV IWVMHWll W ' mm . J 1 W 9 f jwder valuable aid to ' the cause of revival, by after the younget of their ownex. This i ground of usefulness which is yet almost, to- ' U11y anoccupied. Femtile agency was far more !?enflv.'y employed in the primitive churches an l to modern times. Honorable mention made in the New Testament of "Phaibe, a ser Vant of the church of C snchrea, a succbrer of ma- 7f Friscilla, ""who taught the eloquent Apql l the way of the Lord more perfectly. ; who re jj's'd the thanks not only of the Apostles, but of 'llne churches, of the Gentiles" of those wo- who laboured with Faul in the gospel of Ju- ano was of note among the Apostles of Try ia.and Tryphosa, vo laboured in the-Lord;" aaj olhers too numerous to mention. Pious exPetienced females! might counsel theyonug- v.u. inrrnrr thnin annnnronn tnTi nrfiv . . . rii r.F a 11; ti 1 a wnw m I -II " .. ...Ml 1.. .,.ni n , M.i.-- ivi u oy uiuminaung u wu. .. ru.y , , q( ft JuUa 11 Willi lilt; IKTUUiy Ul UUUUcao, u ,.w.. :.-- . - soon m2 it with miraculous powers come soon into J t in nit tfiA nlpnittirlf nf yuur-iuiuus nnu iicana - - i , r . . . . .1 ...l;. i- :.. J..11 oira his gitts and graces, reviving, inai wmcu is uuu, cleansing that which is impure, strengthening that t1, mat wnicn is aiiccicu, to rest a while. For a few minutes they sat quite first. Fran the New England Family Magazine. BREVITY OF LIFE IN MEN OF GENIUS- , Newton accomplished nothing that added to his reputation after he had reached the age of forty five; those mighty discoveries that will cause his name to be spoken wherever science and truth arc known, through all posterity, were all given to the world before he reached that period of I fe Gregory, the inventor of the reflecting telescope, died in his 37th year he had been observing the satellites of Jupiter, when he was suddenly struck blind, and in a few days was carried to bis long home. The inventor of the barometer, Torricelli, who was deemed well worthy of wearing the man tle of Galileo, died at the early age of thirty-nine. The name of Pascal is associated with that of Torricelli, as having first demonstrated to the world the true use and value of the Italian in vention. He shines among the brilliant minds that France raised op for the cause of literature and science. He was cut off ere he had seen his fortieth birth-day. But Fascafs life, as far as re garded his relation to science, mny be said to have terminated some seven or eight years earlier even than thisv Influenced by certain views of religion which he imbibed when he was about thirty years of age, he strangely enough conceived that the pursuits in which he was then engaged were dis pleasing to his Maker, and that he was wasting his lime, and perverting his talents, by continuing in such a course. He therefore resolved to abstain entirely from what had hitherto formed the chief pleasures of his life. Some allowance must be made for this morbid state of mind from the fact that his was a delicate nnd exciteable tempera ment ; and continued ill health, together with per severing and laborious study had, nearly exhaust ed his physical powers. It cannot but be regret ted, that an intellect so rare as that possessed by Fa seal, which was given to bim by his Creator, not for his own advantage merely, but also for the benefit of his fellow men, should hare been so in fluenced by an argument so palpably faUc and ab surd. He unconsciously refuted his own Icxric du- ring his retirement, by his celebrated " Provincial Letters," an attack upon the casuistry of tbe Jesu its, "which," said his biographer, "slrange to say, is a work not only distinguished by all that is ad mirable in style and reasoning, but abounding in the exquisite wit and humor, which the splendid enthusiast intermingles with his dexterous and of ten elegant arguinention, apparently with as much Iight-heartedness, as natural an ease, as if he bad been one, the flow of whose spirits had scarcely yet known what it was to be disturbed by either fear or sorrow. So false a thing often is gaity, or rather so mighty is the power of intellectual occupation. It can make the heart forget for a lime its most prevailing grief, and change its deepest gloom to unshineM Sir Philip Sidney, cd with a peculiar interest from ccs under which it wa written. ma nee have seized upon the storj as legitimate booty. J At the nge of thirty-seven died the great pa'nt er of the Cartoons. With lhn event art lost ons of its brightest luminaries, und although its treasu ry is enriched with creations scarcely to be equall ed, certainly not to be surpassed, yet the wotld as yet has seen but one Raphael. I lis spirit will live in his Works as long as time permits one thread of his canvass to hang upon orotber, and receive the homage of the worshippers of Art. Corrrg. gio, his contemporary, met with his death at forty. It was this master who exclaimed, when admir- ing one of tbe mighty efforts of Raphael, And I also am a painter !n j!; IRAYEU. The solemn periods during which a man retires from the intrusion of external thin, and . thus places himself alone with God, must be consider. ed as a special and most important part of that discipline of the soul from which 4 it is to derive strength for its combat " with; principalities or.d powers, Willi the rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high p'.aces." Such seasons will be sought for, rot as duties to be performed, but privileges to be deaired and cherished as a great means of spiritual life a chief source of the growtli, the kicfence, the nour ishment of ihe soul. But, independently of those more special onJ solemn seasons, in which a man of prayer re tires from external thing, and seeks to Gnd him self in tbe more immediate presence of God where there is the habitual ..ensej of the Divine presence, there will be the tendency to raise the thoughts to him even amid the ordinary engage ments with objects of sense. Amid the caret, the nnxietief, tbe distractions of lifej indeed, this must often be felt lobe, as it were, a resting-pbee, a re fuge to the soul. And a const Jcra: ion at once the most solemn and encouraging I it certainly is. 'Charles said she, 'how long a time that sweet sin?. He must be full of joy. Can you and is he as beautiful as that song is which is wealr. unitinar in nrnar vnnr in r ma iv r viiii iiidv. uc ui tuui vu iwt - - . . - r . " . --. j J- , looks very nappy as he awinss about in tho air a more abundant paiticipauon 01 o . - w lhe , and lead thefri on in the ways of god- God "and closer fellowship with the Father, and his Son Jesus Christ, in every thing that relates to the salvation of this lost world. Yes, dear Julia, he is a very pretty bird, and on the very end of that long limb. -The little girl sighed, and a large tear rolled down her face as she said. l- Charley, I wish that I could see. You tell me about the flowers of all colors, the green leave, the jittle birds, the blue sky, and so many beautiful From the Christian Reflector. . A HINT TO PASTORS. Messes. Editors : Having seen a communica- things that I long to see. I know, as you and dear tion in your paper of the 31st of July from a pas- dother olten tell me that I can hear, and leel and tor in the Land of Nod, nnd being an inhabitant enjoy a great many things, but oh ! it must be de of the same i Tandy it-suggested a few thoughts .td; rightful to sec. But I shall always bo blind, shall Cowper was indebted to his literary efforts for at moat all the relief that he ex ierienced from depression of spirits, iron) causes similar to those which agitated Pas cal "The Task.," and bis versions of the "Iliad," and 'Odyssey," checked the prozreM of his JicuM for years. "John Gilpin" mutt bavt been an oais in the deaert to its uQicteJ author. Cowper is an instance of hrnt much can bt doi.s iuashoit lime, by determination and perseverance. Tliough well eJucatul in his vou:h, h wasted tweuly-fire or thirty years succeeJin his Jejuf lure fiom school, in doin comparatively nirthing. His first volume ol poem was published uteu be was tlly years old. Pcir Cowper! we love and pity him at lie same time. How depolate must his heatt tme Irlt at limen, and whal a frrquent prey to anguish, and wedouKt not .' jair, wa hia umul. II hu iJensl wh!ii m gay thought snoi acrnss tiis gkHmy meditations lie ms, -il w .1 1 I I It a ..." . .' . I that, amid any circumstances as to the external, things, the aspiration of lhe heart directed to God may have all lhe power and oil the efficacy of pray er. It is an exercise adopted to. every situation in which the feeble being can te, placed; for, whether distracted with anxieties respecting earth ly things, or awed under more so'emn apprehen sion of things eternal ; whether viewing compli cated duties in regard to which he' perceives his own weakness, or. combating with, spiritual ene mies which arc too strong for him;-the man feels that he is not alone, who thus seeks 10 " dwell in the house of the Lord all the days jof his life, to behold the beauty of tbe Lord, and inquire in his temnle." JILcraromU. t Where a corps is depoaited." The religion of Jesus, as delivered in the New Testament in its original purityvond simplicity, will be ever able to stand its ground against all the assaults of the most subtle and malicious ad versaries. It hath a dignity and eictller.ee in it, which hath often extorted favorable jacknow ledge men ts even from those who have eppenred to be' strongly prejudiced against it, of which we have a remarkable instance in the late Lord Bolinbroke. And lam persuaded thatthe'more any thinking man considereth it with a free and unprejudiced mind, tho more he will admire it, od will bo the more convinced of its truth and excellence, and of iis di vine original You will, I doubt not, join with me in fervant prayer to God, that this holy re!i gion may be more universally diffused, that it may be made known to those who knew it not, and that where it is known and professed, it may have more of the happy effects which it is so well fitted to produce. Lehnd. ...... It is a noble contemplation, and highly for the honor of the sacred writings, that there w e may observe one and lhe same glorious p!ro carried 011 by the. divine wisdom and goodness from the be ginning, for the recovery and salvation of lapted man: successive revelations communicated at dif ferent times and in divers manners, and at the dis tance of several ages , from one another, yet all subservient to the same glorious purpose, and mutually confirming and illustrating each other; the law and the proplu in llcir several way conspiriuj? to prepare tbe way for the revelation of Jesus Ch riband to furnish divine attentat! cs to iu The religion carried oa under the sever! dispensation, still for subsiance tic same; tci. t . . . ... faltarlcqn.nhouIJh.tru.lehiinaelliuto the 'chatatcr I whatever seeming variety there may to in tho parts, an admirable haxtnory tn He wLj! XZ 1
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