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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.9552#0108
ceremonies were useless tokens of respect for
God,
•compared with the essential proof of obedience and lo^'e
towards him evinced by the practice of beneficence t&
wards their fellow-creatures. The Compiler, finding
these commandments given as including all the reve
Law, and the whole system of religion adopted by the
Prophets and re-established and fulfilled by Jesus him'
self, as the means to acquire Peace and Happiness, w3s
desirous of giving more full publicity in this country t°
them, and to the subsidiary moral doctrines that afe
introduced by the Saviour in detail. Placing als°
implicit confidence in the truth of his sacred command'
ments, to the observance of which we are directed by th6
same teacher, (John, ch. xiv. ver. 15, "If ye love me'
keep my commandments." Ver. 24, "He that loveth &e
not, keepeth not my sayings,") the Compiler nevef
hesitated in declaring, (page 1,) "a belief in God, and *
due regard to that law, ' Do unto others as you wou$
wish to be done by,' render our existence agreeable t°
-ourselves, and profitable to the rest of mankind." It m^J
now be left to the public to judge, whether or not the
charge of arrogance and presumption which the Review**
has imputed to the Compiler, under the idea that he
preferred his own judgment to that of the Saviour, b6
justly applicable to him.
3. The (respected Reviewer argues in page 26, th^
there are two important points, a knowledge of which is
not to be acquired by following the moral precepts 0^
Christ, but which are essential to the attainment of tr^e
peace of mind ; they being entirely founded (as he allege5)
rpon the dogmas and histories, viz. how to obtain, ist»
the forgiveness of sins and the favour of God ; and 2db/»
God,
•compared with the essential proof of obedience and lo^'e
towards him evinced by the practice of beneficence t&
wards their fellow-creatures. The Compiler, finding
these commandments given as including all the reve
Law, and the whole system of religion adopted by the
Prophets and re-established and fulfilled by Jesus him'
self, as the means to acquire Peace and Happiness, w3s
desirous of giving more full publicity in this country t°
them, and to the subsidiary moral doctrines that afe
introduced by the Saviour in detail. Placing als°
implicit confidence in the truth of his sacred command'
ments, to the observance of which we are directed by th6
same teacher, (John, ch. xiv. ver. 15, "If ye love me'
keep my commandments." Ver. 24, "He that loveth &e
not, keepeth not my sayings,") the Compiler nevef
hesitated in declaring, (page 1,) "a belief in God, and *
due regard to that law, ' Do unto others as you wou$
wish to be done by,' render our existence agreeable t°
-ourselves, and profitable to the rest of mankind." It m^J
now be left to the public to judge, whether or not the
charge of arrogance and presumption which the Review**
has imputed to the Compiler, under the idea that he
preferred his own judgment to that of the Saviour, b6
justly applicable to him.
3. The (respected Reviewer argues in page 26, th^
there are two important points, a knowledge of which is
not to be acquired by following the moral precepts 0^
Christ, but which are essential to the attainment of tr^e
peace of mind ; they being entirely founded (as he allege5)
rpon the dogmas and histories, viz. how to obtain, ist»
the forgiveness of sins and the favour of God ; and 2db/»