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QUERIES CONCERNING THE EXTENT OF THE DIVINE DECREES . To the Editor of the Monthly * Reposito ry * Sir , If the following inquiry is not foreign to the plan of your publication , and may be admitted a place therein , I will hope that some one of your contemplative correspondents will
furnish some reflections in reply , and arguments towards a solution . I first assume that there is a self-existent , almighty Being , whose will is the source of all being , and the law of all order throughout the world .
God , then , is the positive cause of my existence , together with all mankind ; and I conceive that I am strictly what lam , both in a physical and moral acceptation , in consequence of my make , or constituent structure ( so aud so circumstan € ed in Jife ) in virtue of fixed laws , or principles of nature , all origin nating in God ; but may I therefore infer it to be of God's direct will and appointment , that I am personally , in every respect , exactly what I am ? Did God , in creation and providence , determine on my particular , personal structure—precise bulk , figure , temperature
of body , and disposition of mind—positively rendering rne , through every successive instant , what I ever have been , and now actually am , both in a physical and moral consideration , inclusive of all peculiarities whatever ? Or , Again , once more : Did God ' s purpose , design , direct will , and appointment , in creation and providence , actually extend' to and include every distinct or separate event which at any time ' takes place—all events that can have place in time , in this world- —so as that we may truly affirm , that there is no event whatever , but what was positively devised , and actually prp ^ vided forof God in the institution of nature ?
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my father for Bis sincere and warm desire to know his duty , and how he might best please his Maker)— - " Well , and if you should ? " " If I should ! " said my father in surprise : " If I should be mistaken , after the most diligent inquiry I can make , I am sure to make God my enemy . " a Are you so ? " said Fleetwood warmly , €€ then he is no God fmr me : " which expression ( for they were his very words , asrl have often heard my dear father relate them ) he proceeded to explain and soften , by giving him a just and reasonable idea of the common Father ] of manic ind * /
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Extent of the Divine Decrees . 529
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 529, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/25/
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