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a miracle , or any supernatural operifton of tH ^ holy spirit on our
1 A % ^«»^ ° » ^ n Sjr h < A bfe amiss t ^ not fi ^ what seems a strange inco # fi * eiic ^ Irfi ' file- ^ votiotM j > i « 8 ticff 6 fl » rfiost y 1 ' the Christie % tf # ftl ; febih Solomon and
Jesus Christ have earnestly cati - fiojS & cf the tvo ? sRippers of God againstrbakiftglong prayers . The latter , ^ indeed , even represents theib iis heathenish . Yet almost all IBs' followers seem as if they expected ^ ftl direct opposition to bis filstruetions : ** to be heard for
their niiich sneaking . ** They , in It ihsririer , dictate to the Almighty how he should order eveiils ill the coifrse of his Providence ; and never fail to implore tiat lie would " shower down his
choicest blessings ** on themselves aiu ! tfiejr frtetids . Surely it would "betSef" become * creatures like us . when addressing the Supreme Being , to express our firm confidence in his powerj wisdom and goo'd-» es ^ 86 Lenti r ^ acquiescence in airhi ^ S ^ jpensations , and instead of rnk ^ lhg so many needless re-Viiek (^ tb ta , ke tviiat he gives , and & Utfitftfui :
f ! ' ^ tft 3 £ . N . » s most serious obj ^ cu ^ ii ' " is the View in which mo-* f & Jne $ l : is placed by the doctrine ^ ne ^ sii y , ** Admitting the truth orlhis docrrrine , he & sks , " how tgW | s i ^ b ^ ib ^ to look upon an ^{ Bic \ ed arid a vicious man with ^ ^ ffift ^ t ^ n cTmepb ? . The sfime ^ tojPllitt mtfkes the one u n hUp py , W |* HhT >& er Wiaed ; we ^¦ fife- ^' *^^ After ^^^^^ mmL ti » m : ke
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more congenial with the genuine spirit 6 t Christianity ^ tbrirr ibo ^ with which he would fee tegmfAed by the advocate for that noa # btity , philosophical liberty . Those who maintain this tenet , not ^ considering the dispositioa and ton * duct of a man as necessarily rt-.
suiting from the circumstance ^ in which he is placed , and the ^ ve & ts to which he is exposed , naturaHy beholds with indignation every Migrant violation of the laws of roetitude ; and can scarcely pityvt & e otfehd ^ r whert strfTeritig ttfe Consequences of his cringes . ? Ba # file
consistent ruecessariarr , ' XnO % ^ HUg that both the guilt and the $ & ffe * - ings were alike iiievitabte , and that had he himself been placed in circumstances precisely similar to those of the transgiresso r ^ 4 * is own conduct wo ^ uld have bei » n
equally enormous , reflect of * vfris unhappy case with sincere com - passion . Were it in his pow # r , he would reclaim him by fhfcgsftitlest admonition j he > VouK 1 conciliate him by unfeigned kmdWJs , and 5 with the most earnest cotl
cern for his welfare , would dfesuade him from the practice ^ f every species of iniquifjr , tin 3 < bk ~ hort him to cultivate those virttfes and that disposition , whfc ^ ti would qualify him for pure atld pelrftk : t fejici ty . In a future state of * ex * istence . Such , or nearly sueb I apprehend , would be the conduct of the libertarian , aftd 0 f th ^ necessarian , so far as it was ioftvended by their principles . Which would be most conformable to the
genius of the Chnstian relrgi ^ n , ot to the disposition niitiiffeitecf by its founder , I leave to the * irapwtial reader to determine . " - ^ fn qflv ^ fhii i £ i » mWmBliLWkMM &
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Mr . Allchin on Philosophical Necessity . 723
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 723, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/17/
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