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Taythe Rev. R* Wrtght;— On Future Punish...
viii , I 3 tr I'Mye live a / terthe flesh yj 6 sf } all die ; but if ye through th ^ e « pi | it do mortify the deeds of tjhe hodyye shail li \ e- " . 2 Thes . i . 9 , " Whoshall ; be punished with
everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power /' If J have any where expressed myself in strong language against your hypothesis , I beg you not to
mistake it . as meant personally to yourself , for whom I entertain very ^ ig h respect , and will beg you to believe me . dear Sir , Yours very sincerely ,
P . S . I would not be thought inattentive to the letter ofBereus , i / i | the same Ifurxiber of the Repository t , though he has said so Ul ^ l £ & $ tjje subject , tt ^ at I can scaj- $ piy i ^ iscQver hip object in writj | ng : jjthere are two remarks I
must notice * , jjf .. an observation be important ^ or useful it is of little cpi ^ equ ^ nce Jiqvi what source it ^ 0 | cf grjtv ^ 4 9 biilj can assure feer ^ us , , t | ie analogy I drew from the
Wfffkf , i ; ° f ciieatioi ) was neither der ^^ frpm Bp , Butler nor Dr . g ^^ 9 9 tqt Kelp thinking the last passage in JBereu &' s letter more extraordinary than he could
possibly think mine : —he says ^ * ' he g ^ Wejrsjifs ^ opinion as- laying a pkecMlia ^ : restraint on vice , " & c . ngv ^ JL . reajfly did s # y no such thing TT ^ w h ^ I s aid was , " that , from observation . J feared the belief of X | jpiy , ef ^ ul Jt ^^ rati qp h ^ d a prac ^ to re
Ci ^^ l t «; n ^ ency Q «" I , les * en the r ^ p \ ntt > tQ } £ : could not have saicj my opii ) ion had a peculiar t ^^ e ^ y tj ^ restrain vice , well knowing , tlift ifre ^ cfrine of , < r ter-Q ^ l * km , & $ ^ i ^ trai ^ at r <* ^^ ^ ^« 3 MWW ? ^ i sM $ Mm < fk
Taythe Rev. R* Wrtght;— On Future Punish...
revolution , to which I suppose fee alludes , and even that the professed belief of eternal tormeht ^ has not been sufficient to restrain
men from as great atrocities in other periods of history , 6 vcn of the Chciatian church And now , Mr . Editor , being afraid , by the length of this leU
<^ r , I have trespassed in occupy ^ ing too much of your valuable room , the only apology I can offer is , that I intend it to be my last on this subject . Satisfied that I have said all that I can of kn * -
portance , and persuaded'that niy opponentscannot bring forward any thing new , I have only to thank you for your indulgence .
N . B . There is a typographica error in my former letter , page 642 , 2 d col . after acorn—omit the wordsyVojrc that . Hackney , May 15 , 1814 .
2 nd . P . S . My reply to Mtt Wright ' s letter on Universal Res * toration , was sent to you in Marchi but as it is not yet published I will begyouto insert the following observations on his letter ( p . 228 )
by way of postscript to mine ; as Mr . Wright wishes much to h
rnidable . The 1 st question is— - ct Did God ever design the happiness of all men ? Did he intend their happiness when he niade them , or when he sent Jesus Christ to be the Saviour of the
world ?' It . is manifest from the frame , appetites and passions of man , Jhai all men wero intended and made to enjoy -a large bak Jttuce of pleasurable sensations and bappine ^ s ^ and when he seht Jesus Christ to bo the Saviour ^ ^ Tite
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/27/
