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tiidugK , that the Deity is displesised bf sin , and that our powers are so many talents entrusted to our care- entirely at our own dis *
posal , and independent of the appointment of any superior agent , and that we must be accountable for the manner in which they are employed ; but the necessar ian scheme refers us to another
authority for the decision of this momentous question—the tribunal of human reasoning ! ! ! If these objections ( which I believe have risen in the minds of
% vi § er men than the wiiter of this letter ) cannot be entirely cleared away from the doctrine of necessity , can any one dare say that they are only weak men and bigots who contend tfrat a doctrine of this kind is improper to be held up for general belief ?
Let us however for a moment suppose , and ci to err is human , " that this doctrine is untrue . What will be the consequences ? All fhose effects which naturally must
arise from a system which so for countenances depravity as to assure the sinner that though he will eventually suffer , he is an instrument ia the hands of an all
> vise and good EJeingj , in bringing about universal good , and fh ' instead of being osKamecJ of hjs conduct , he should 5 | ejpice in a < pti . ^* ' i , *—t ~
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To the Editor of tkp 0 Iont $ y Repository .
I have lately been reading with much pleasure a little duodecimo volqrn ^ entitlea ! « Forms of De-, votiQif ^ or the Use of Families ; With ' a > preface recommcndfag the Practise pf Family Religion , print-
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ing any part in so vast and berte * voient a scheme . * - " ' Too fe \\ % alas ! already are the checks to wickedness in the world : too few already are the pangs of the wicked man in his career of
iniquity , without having recourse to the doctrine of necessity to diminish those which may exists It ought to be to no purpose to prove that the doctrine of liberty involves a contradiction and an
absurdity , while the opposite doc * trine is encumbered with " a weight so burdensome to the thoughtful , feeling mind . The violent assertors of necessity may not be a > - ware how apt the doctrine is , in minds less informed than their
own , to underrhine principles of far greater importance—the belief of a God , and the revelation of a future state . It would perhaps be more honourable to their talents and judgment , more
creditable to their modesty and humility , to acknowledge , till every difficulty is cleared up , that it is a subject beyond the narrow boundary of our weak intellects , and ; that we must wait with patience
lor us elucidation , till the veil of eternity is withdrawn , and we rise * endowed with more enlarged mind * and brighter faculties , I remain your ' s , &c . _ E . N . : — : — : A 7-
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fyhjeciions to the Doctrine of Necessity . 551
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AUTHOR 9 Of ^ fWO % NOJSYMOtf { 5 TRACTS *
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ed for W . Johnston R in Lurfgatestreet ., ^ nd . Griffiths in Pater ^ nosier- Kow , London , 1758 /* The w ^ rk Ji > eems to have been the production of rnor § perspns tbaa one . The authors were ievicientl j ^ protcs ^ ant Diss ^ utej [> . They a-j
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1809, page 551, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1741/page/21/
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