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remission of i-ln hi .. b > - liine , ihc-same ; i : ime or ' authority by which they wrought miracles . Ytth-. trc , where we : r . i : ht of a'l p laces , exprct to find it , * I * i ; T" 25 no iiitimatiO'Li oi vn-isir . eil law or justice being satv vied . r I V-e r . mc observation she considered equal y upp lKaLie io Peter * s exTk j \" t-j . t . K > n , A , t ? in i ')
She 2 l :: o ob . trvcvi that wntrtrver our Lord speaks ora the subject of repentance , cither xvith or "without a pawb c , the pardon of sin is invariably represented a , s the free unpurchascd grace of God , and rhat tve-n characters of
ordinary moral attainments , were rtadv to forgive those who had treated them injuriously , when they perceived their repentance , and a desire to repair the sri juries they had committed . She would often repeat the vrord ^ of our Lord , If Fathers , being evil ( imperfect ) , know how to give good gifts to their children , how mutfh more the Father of
4 > ur spirits \ "While Airs . F . thus rejected the popular doctrine of the interference of the Son of God to re-cue man from 2 us Father ' s wrath , let no one suppose rhat sjbe thought- lig ) i-l y of C 2 irist in the p lan of our salvation .- There were few y . a § sagcs of scripture which > he repeated joftener , or with more . emphasis than
fj ohniii . -16 . ) Cod so loved the world as to gi"vc his only begotten Son , &c . . Some injudicious Christians boast of exalting Christ ; her desire was neither to exalt nor to debase him , but humbly to receive him as he is exhibited in the
gospel , ohe g . mteUil ' y meditated on his \\ o : k and sufferings , while the repealed fact that God had promised to forgive pins when repented of and lorsaken , fuJly satisfied her , ancl was the ground of her rejoicing . v Of the extent cf divine forgivene i > she
had the most enlarged icloas . The doctrine of endle-s misery to the greater part , or even to an individual , of the human rare , appeared in her vJew so uncongenial to the character of Cod , that she often expressed her astonishment that it should have ever been so
generally received . A perfectly benevolent being , she -would reason , could h ave no motive in creating the human race but the ultimate communicatio . n of Jjis hi . ppine . ss . Perfect wisdom jnust have foreseen all th .. t woi \ ld result from his creating" power . JvrtcM ing the di . e $ on * cquejaces ; would hh benevolence
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have permitted him to create 2 r « acc of beings , ^ vhose future eternal condition mu . « t be so tremtndevs . Thai sin was a malic . na . nt disorder from which human beings must be- puriiled here or hereafter , was her firm conviction . Yet that , however tremendous future misery may he ( and from zhc language of scripfjre there is every reason to believe it will be trewenJei / s indeed ) from the nature , of man , and the perfections of Him that made him , it must be remedial . Her benevolent nature would frequently exult in the transporting thought that sia ami misery would be annihilated , and all the erring race of man , at some distant period ( a yeriod a * wfully long when compared with our present existence , but short when compared with eternity ) be restored to its benevolent parent , and all rejoice in his fatherly love . Had the apostles a commission to teach the popular doctrine , could they , she would argue , with this truth , the endless misery of the great . ma-s of intelligent beings , in their view , have exulted in the height * , -depth ,, length , and breadth , of the love of God , or have described him
as the Saviour cf all men , especially of thorn th a t b e ^ i c ve . While the rnind of Mrs . F . was thus invigorated by the just views cf religit > u truth whicli she had acquired , her health had been gradually declining . During a trying stage of her illness she made a visit to IJath . Here a short acquaintance took place with Mrs , H , a lady highly connected , and
who had been educated in the princi ples of hL ; h-church orthodoxy . From serious conviction and a sense of the importance of religious truth , * shc had now left the EataJjlLshment and joined the Unitarian Dissenters , Such a step , m some instances , would evince but little virtue . In . her case it was far
otherwise . She was unjler the necessity of making great and painful sacrifices ' ; nor did this determination take place till after jthe laborious investigation of several years . Could this excellent rational Christian be inducted to leave behind her an account of her life , such ^ statement of the force of truth would do
great service to the cause of pure and uncctrrupt religion . The subject of this memoir frequently spojee of rhe pleasure she derived from the society of this laify * and regretted the necessity of its short duration . It was in her hands she
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/54/
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