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after all his declinations and protestations , he permitted the British slave trade to increase from an importation of 25 , 000 to an importation of 57 , 00 O negroes in two years , ending 1798 , by the capture of the Dutch and other
settlements . If he had issued in 1797 the order o [ council 180 . 5 , above 30 , 000 negroes per annum would have been saved ! What Mr . Pitt , who was prime minister of this country , with boundless power , for twenty years , could not ,
or would nor , effect , was accom - plished by nil e Fox anci Gienviile ministry , which existed not so many months / But with them the matter was taken up on principle , and they staked their very being upon it . One of their first measures was to restrict the trade :
they went on impairing it by degrees , and pledging the house , and 'preparing the country for its annihilation ; and their very last act was the glorious bill which wiped away this disgraceful traffic . And
have they to divide- the honour of this bf-nevoirnt work with their prf-deccs ^ oj ^ who , while they talked about it , did nothing to forward ii ? Let Mr . Clarkson answer il . s question , who , with an impropri . ty mosi glaring and
injustice most shameful , dedicates his admirable * * fc ii story of the Abel ; lion * ' equally to the manes of Pitt and Fox . Mr . Fox ' s friends dijchtin the rMnpiinient , and the dedication will ever bi an eye-sore in a work , which , in other respects , benevolence would contemplate wiih unalloyed pleasure .
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No XVI Theological Dilemma * Lord Bolingbroke ' s
philosophical works , which were once esteemed so formidable , that every divine of any eminence answered them , but which have been so
long and so much decried in point
both of composition and of matter , that nobody scarcely reads thern afford many examples of- the occasion which a corrupt scheme of
Christian theology gives to inndelity to justify itselt and to triumph . The following passage ( from Works , vol . v . p . 17 $ - ) points out a strange dilemma into which the orthodox Christian
brings himself , by his doctrine of Jesus Christ being in his death an atoning sacrifice for the sins of mankind . ^ " The Messiah came ; and God did for fallen man what he would not do for fallen angels according- to a remark of Archbishop Tiilot on . He sent his on ~
. y son , who is one and the « ame God with himself , into the world , to suffer an ignominious death , and by that sacrifice , to redeem all the sons of Adam from the
consequences of his wrath , which the < in of -Adam had entailed on the whole race of mankind , Christian theology disco * vers in this mysteriou proceeding * , the love of God to man , his infinite justice and goodness But reason will discover
the fantastical , confused , and inconsistent notions of Jew ^ h theology latent in it , and applied to another system of religion . Thi .- » love will appear partiality as great as that which the Jews assumed
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84 Gleanings .
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No , XV , Dr . Chandler ' s clr > ice of Friends . Dio Dr . Ch . iiKikr u ;) d .-signedly describe his own faulty ambition of great connexion ^ in the fol-
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lowing passage , in his sermon oil " ¦ Christ the friend , of his obedient disciples ?" " What are the qualifications of the persons one would wish to be esteemed and beloved by ? I can speak for myself ' ,
and I believe , for you also ; persons of superior rank and dignity ^ purity of heart , sanctity of character , distinguished wisdom and knowledge , amiableness of tem ~ per , extensive usefulness , and liberal sources to ^ ratify the frietzrfl y , generous disposition" Sermons , vol . iii . 337 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/28/
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