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Observing the earnestness and seriousness with which he addresses his readers on the duty and importance of keeping the heart and imagination free from moral . corruption , I could not avoid adverting to the different spirit which generally appears to actuate and distinsuish from each other the
writers upon controversial and practical divinity . He whose aim it is to enforce the precepts of Jesus Christ , to promote the cause of righteousness ef heart and life , who endeavours to convert a sinner * from the error
of his ways , does riot usually descant upon those errors in terms of contempt and proud superior- ^ ity ; he entreats ; not defames ; and should his endeavours happily prove successful in gaining a pro- ;
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For the Monthly Repository .
An admirer of the cool , dignified and candid defence of Christianity made by Mr . Allchin in his Letters to a Churchman , presumes , through the medium ofyour
interesting publication , respectftilly to ask him , if , as he thinks , the position , b <* tru ^ That it is highly probable , that pain and « vil cpiil 4 not have been avoided , what becomes , of the attribute of
Infinite power , so generally ascribed to the ' Deity ? The perfect irrec 9 J $ eileabiUty of this attribute and of infinite benevolence with the existence of . evil , and of omniscience ivit | h fred agency , opposes in the , mind of the writer , $ uch a formidable barrier to the reception of the received opinions
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selyte from siri to holiness , how different will his triumph be from that bf the victor who ? foils an adversary in the fkild of contro - versial theology ! I . do not meaa to represent
theological controversy as unimportant , or as a matter of indiffer * ence what opinions we adopt on speculative points ; on the *
contrary , questions concerning them are important and highly useful , when with meekness and humility discussed , not proudly and dicta * tonally decided ; yt t happy would it be if we were more earnestly disposed to ask that question
of infinitely greater importance ^ cc what shall I do to inherit eternal life ? " and to remember the reply ci keep the commandments /' A Constant Reaper .
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of natural and revealed religion as he is totally unable to remove % and could any of your correspondents advance any arguments , or refer to any whiqh have tended to lessen those difficulties in their
own minds , they might probably tend to the removal of a load of anxiety from the rnind of one who would ever feel grateful for the same . , The writer of the presejptj article , has no other motive in thi «
application , than an ardent wisk to become a believer in the divine origin of the Christian religion ^ from a perfect conviction that no reflecting mind can be sincerely such , without becommga better and a happier man , ^ ¦ ¦' »! . : •• . , <;>
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Question to jlfr - AUchin . 241
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ftt ? ESTION TO MR . ALLCHIN ,.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/21/
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