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Chariclo to Silvanus * ( See page 313 . )
You express curiosity about the principle , or inmost determining cause of my defending a polytheistic scheme of Christian ritual ; and you treat it as an exuberance of devotional feeling , to wish for extending the grateful homage of
mankind to the various benefactors of mankind . Surely gratitude is always , a . becoming feeling , and well adapted to predominate in public worship . Surely tliat thankfulness is spcially most expedient , which can contribute to influence a repetition of beneficial action . The desire of imi-
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tating useful conduct is obviously more invigorated by praising man , than by praising GqcL H ^ ioworsbip is according to ipy persuasion ^ npt only the most instinctive , and therefore the ? ppst
early , ' but the most > rational , and , therefore , the most p ^ rma ; ient , religion of the human race . Am I singular when , I avxnv , that , during my resjdepce in London , although Xd ' id attend at Saint Paul ' s to hoar the
charity-children sing . their hymns to the Supremo JJeiijg ; ^ . dcJ 4 $ **" tend at Westminster , > Vb b £ y > P
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498 On Christian P < $ ytheism *
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a ^ there , 1 $ between the Congress and us since the treaty of peace . We shall still love one another , and shake hands whenever we meet each other . We would wJ 8 h « 79 ur niinisters to go on the same , way the Xord would have you to go , and we will take the way he hath appointed For us ^—t hen we may expect happiness forourselves and our children .
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A METAPHYSICAL DIFFICULTY . *
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, »¦•¦ . -.: To the Editar of the Monthly Repository " . *
SIR , A difficulty has occurred to us respecting the liberty of indifference , or the power of choosing out of equal objects , which Mr . Belhham thinks may exist in the Supreme Being . ( See Elements of the Philosophy of the Mind , pages 252 . 254 . ) Does not this hypothesis involve a contradiction ? H . ow is tn ^ liberty consistent \ vith perfect prescience ? Till a choice was made , must there not have been uncertainty asi to the
event ? But how is this possible , if every thing that woul 4-. @ 9 e-f-. be , was , from all eternity , known and present to the Divine mind ? ; We venture to make ihisst&tement of whaj ; to us , appears a difficulty , in the hope that ^ should you think fit to give it a pla ^ e ia your Repository , Mr , Belsham may be induced to favour us with his thoughts on the subject . We are ? Sir , Your constant Readers , A . & Y .
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ON CHRISTIAN POLYTHEISM ,
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Brothers , thfc&S ak f thtxlktt ^ c ^^ Ve send to the % e d , IV ©* iistc ^ 4 ^ tr \ 4 fcin ^ j t may come to them the S ^ ae way we send it . . ¦ "' * ' ' ^ : ' -r ¦ X [ Here a string of wampum was delivered to the Rev . Thp& . Hughes an * Alex . Cook , ~| >• ¦ *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 498, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/24/
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