and guidance of his HOLY SPIRIT], "and for the hope of glory," [honour and immortality referved in the heavens for them that love GOD.]

Although, therefore, to a "true Chriftian," living under an habitual fenfe of the Divine presence, "every day is a Sabbath," a portion of which he will devote to the duties of private devotion, and public, when occafion will ferve-yet the Lord's day is paramount to every other, and accordingly was fanctified by the undeviating ufage of the Chriftian Church fince the refurrection;-our Lord's manifeftations to his Apoftles having been remarkably limited- on many occafions to that day, on which they " affembled together," for the purpose of Public Worship to the FATHER ALMIGHTY, and of celebrating the Lord's Supper, according to his own exprefs and dying injunction, fignified by the act of "breaking bread"to be celebrated" often "-thus "Shewing farth the Lord's death until He come furely not only until the deftruction of

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the Jewish polity"-(with Doctor Hammond and Archbishop Newcome)-but until his re-appearance " in power and great glory:"-an old patriarchal rite, even in Abraham's days, who was entertained with bread and wine, and folemnly bleffed, by Melchizedek King of Salem, and Prieft of THE MOST HIGH GOD"-whofe royal priesthood was revived upon an extended and infinitely enlarged scale, by "the APOSTLE (SHILOH) and HIGH PRIEST of our profeffion"-JESUS CHRIST. But the celebration of the Lord's Supper, alas! makes no part of Unitarian worship-and is too fatally and too generally neglected by profeffed Christians of the Established Church :-not confidering that they thereby disclaim their allegiance, as his faithful fubjects—and bar themselves from all legal right and title to the propitiatory Sacrifice of the death of CHRIST, and to the benefits which we receive thereby."

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That every place is alfo a temple, to the devout Christian, is true-but furely

in a higher fenfe, the fanctuary of the Lord-where He is confidered as more peculiarly prefent-where his name, as "Our Father in the Heavens," is required "to be" hallowed" in joint worship.-The Temple of Solomon, built by the Divine direction, was the wonder of the world ;and even the magnificence of the Ark of the Covenant, and of the moveable Tabernacle in the wilderness, was confiderable. Our LORD himself frequented public worship in the Temple, and was folicitous to preserve it from profanation; -and twice he cleared it from being “an houfe of merchandize," and "a den of thieves."-A religion fo very rational as Unitarianifm-purely mental- is not for mankind in their prefent stage of existence; and the nation or people that reject public worship, will soon and deservedly degenerate into Savagifm. the gloomy termination (if we confult ancient history and modern observation) of the metaphyfical researches of Illuminism— (of all illufions the most dangerous, becaufe

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cause most difficult of cure)-rejecting "all glow of the paffions" from religion, and evaporating its vital fpirit, feated ra ther in the heart"-" in an honest and good heart"-and leaving nothing behind but the caput mortuum of a cold, fpeculative affent of the understanding, infufficient to influence the will and affections, and to kindle that ardent and predominant love of God, and fervour of devotion, enjoined as "the first and great commandment."-Difcuffing (and often most irreverently) the myfteries of creating, redeeming, fanctifying LOVE, with as much fang froid, as those inexplicable mysteries of mathematics-the Irreducible Cafe of Cubic Equations in Algebra, or the Problem of the Three Bodies in Natural Philofophy (n). -And is there not abundant cause to dread the extinction of the lamps

of

(n) The Irreducible Cafe of CARDAN's Rule has been the disgrace of Algebra, ever fince its invention, in the year 1629. ALBERTUS GIRALDUS complains

Hoc eft in quo auctores HACTENUS fuerunt valde

intricati;

of the Chriftian Churches in Europe, like thofe in Afia and Africa, for the fame crime of apoftacy-of " deferting their first love?"-Does not the religious indiffer ence of the age ftrongly resemble the Laodicean lukewarmness," and prognosticate a fimilar rejection?

Because thou

art

intricati; et ut verum fatear, in re quam maxime difficili. See HALES's Analyfis Æquationum, p. 190.

And of the Problem of the three Bodies, of which Clairaut, Euler and D'Alembert have given approximate folutions, Euler, with all the modefty of a profound mathematician, confeffes:-" Hujus problematis enodatio completa OMNES analyfios vires tranfcendere videtur."—"The difficulty confifts, in integrating three differential equations of the fecond order,"-[or, in the Newtonian phraseology, of finding the fluents of three fluxional equations of the fecond order]-as we learn from the well-informed Reviewer of Vince's Syftem of Aftronomy. M. R. Octob. 1798. t. I. who, it is to be wished, had quoted his authorities, or the books and pages, where he found fo much curious and abftruse information relative to the Theory of Univerfal Gravitation. Perhaps, he will be fo good as to communicate them in the Literary Correspondence of fome future Review, for the fake of the rifing generation of Philomaths, who afpire to become adepts in the Newtonian