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We do not doubt but that things are systematically ordered the best possible , and that all who are capable of happiness will be happy : But this does nothing toward
resolving our doubts about all events furthering the ends of creation . And we might inquire about incapacity and tiapropitious bearings of objects and temporary
adversity . In a word , we scruple the authority of affirming that all effect is divine ordination , device , purpose and appointment in moral acceptation .
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A : Sermon which led to the Preacher * s Expulsion . ; Jan . I , 1814 . Sir ,
1 am favoured with the privilege of transmitting % p you a sermon , which was preached in last March , at Wejra , in Shropshire , and which many of your readers will wish to eee * & s it produced a separation
of ihe preacher from the congregation , after he had faithfully laboured io build them up in our boly faith during the space of almost twenty-six years . The same
sermon had been preached to them about six years before , without occasioning any sort of murmuring . But , Lben , a large family belonged 4 o the society of liberal sentiments who afterwards removed to
Chester . As soon as they were gone , the orthodox sometimes grumbled at what they heard , and said that the preacher was like Dr . Priest , iey , and did not believe in Christ .
Though ! therefore , he had uniformly taught the same doctrine whmh this sermon contains , and frequently in much stronger Ian-© ttage , they embraced the present opporturiity of limntfesti og ^ their
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high displeasure ^ ar 4 < J flecid ^ £ & r mity * By a mes ^^ r ;; ^ a waited on the minister as commissioned by the wbftle a ^ iie ^ ce *
the morning after bfc Jb ^^\ bgep shewing them that Jpsus Christ came into the world to bear
witness to the truth > he was informed that * they all had some difficulty
in overcoming their disposition to leave the place whilst he was preaching , that they could notary more bear to hear such serjnons , that they would not atteo 4 the
memorial of the Lord ' s * supper , & c . & c * In short , he perceived that he could no more be of any service to them , that , iis Dr . Chandler used to say , when miniRtprs hflrnme nlH _ t . hf » nF > rsnlp % & k ^ - « v —rw- « r m ^ m ¦
«• « I » ¦^ ' m m * v ^ v ^* r w * -- a ^ v m ^ " * m ^ ^* J * jr I ** - W ^ forget all their past labours , and imitfbdiate wants , and areas tired of them as of their old shoes £ he therefore gave them notice to provide themselves with another
minister . I make no furiher remarks upon the sermon , except that it is less animated than the generality of this preacher ' s discourses . I forward it , however , in his own words , without any sort of correction , that it may not be insinuated that it is not exactly the same which was delivered .
The text was , " For this cause came I into the world , that I should bear witness to the truth . "
John xviii . 37- The sermon foU lows : u What js ^ truth , is a question that has been agitated in the world
in all ages , and generally to very little purpose ; because , instead of seriously inquiring what truth was , different parties sought only to confirm themselves in former
semekss prejudices , $# <\ u } u oppose , for mere opposition sake , e * cry declaration .. pf . anb $ 4 Yef « ary «
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/13/
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