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Knanner , his reasons for . believing that Jesus is " the Son of'Joseph /' ftnd for rejecting ^ as spurious , the histories of the miraculous qon . < eeptioQ . ¦ ¦*• These topics have not
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510 Review . —^ Evans ' $ Letter to Matcher *
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been till lately 4 ise « ssed in t > tlie pulpit ; but w ^ s ^ e tyo good reaw son why they should hen&huntied by suqli poachers as seek « tode . ctare the vvhofle counsel of Gad . "
j / Irt ,. V . General Redemption the only proper liasis of General ~ Bem nevolence . Id Letter addressed to Robert Haw tier , D . I ) . Vicar of Charles > Pit / mouth . Suggested byhisT ^ eftnceoftht hon ^ JFemale Penitentiary y recently established in the Vicinity of JsUvg . ton . By JolinEvans , A . M . Morning grfochtr at Worship Street , and Afternoon Preacher at Lmthetf Laney ilolborn . § vq . pp . 4 . 4 , ;• Sherwood and Ca . London . I SOS . -
Dr . Hawker is equally distin . guished by his seal for Calvinism , and his earnestness in behalf of the recent Institution for abandoned females . This letter which $ ir . Evans has addressed to hitnj is designed to point out the incon ^ § i § tericy of the articles of iiis eveed ^ t nd the sentiments of his heart .
With much ability and with Christian temper ^ Mr . Evans ^ aU tempfcs to sheiv that the doctrines i > f Election . and Reprobation , of partiaj redemptioD , and of the limited influences . of the Spirit ; are irreconcileable to the benevo ,.
lence of God . We think that he has succeeded in his design ; and we cannot help wishing that his
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plan had been so fa * enlarged as to admit of his remonstrating with the Calyinistic clergyman on ano * ther point pf faith , moj-e alarm * ingly hostile to the principleaa 4
the sentimetrt of ^ enevoknee ; we iuean the eternity of Hell Tor * nients . The g < j > o ^ i vicar finds depravity an 4 guilt among his k ] n low ^ creatures , and he strives to
yeii ^ ove them , by reforming the subjects of them and uses kind discipline as the means of refQX ( naUQQ ; but he believes in , and preaches a God , who decrees vice arj d crirnes , a ^ nd then dooms the vicious and criminal to end » less , remediless , useless sufferings
* Abt VI . Tvpo discourses on the Origin of Evil , founded on the His ? tory of Cain and , Abel ; and on the Reply of Jesus Christy rela * tive to the ^ M&n born blind * My T . Drummond / % so . pp % ; 37 « Is . 6 d . Johnson . 1 J 309 .
To the metaphysician' and the philosopher , these discourses may » ot , perhaps , appear ^ a very . sa ^ tisfactory solution ^ of the gr ^ at difficulty , concerning which , tfeey treat . ^ They asqribe moral evil to temptations operati n g ion minds .
not sufficiently prepared to With * stand therri ; and its prcvaleriee , to a deficieiicy of care and dilu gea ^ e iri fortifying £ Ke mindr ^ gai : » st thei r attacks . This \ s un- « doubtedly trtie j but the question
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recurs , Why are we exposed to temptations at all ? Could not Omnipotence have excluded al seducing objects from the « tate iq \\^ hich he placed us ? And if ho co ^ ld , where is his gopdness ia suffering iis tob ^ t ^ p osed ^ to ^ eiw t These difiicuUie « are by no meaua ( 6 fcair ^\ ij > in the discourses befo re
us , but ivraain in full ibree to , perplex theiwiTjd q { tl |^ tf ^ Hg htful ift < iuire % j ' H < - JUut thovgh th ^ e e ^ pec ^ y »* W
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/36/
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