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A CONSTANT READER ' S KEPI . Y TO AlST INCONSTANT UEAlVEIt ' s DEFENCE OF THE TRINITY . — "LETTER I .
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To the Editor af the Monthl y Repository . ,
Sept . 5 , 1809 . k Sill , lt ^ does credit to your impartiality , and stamps high value upon your Miscellany , that it is open to men of all parties , and that they can be heard in it , whatever sitle
of a question they wish to defend . This your correspondent , > vho signs himself an Inconstant Reader , admits to be proper , and avails himself of it . This admission
implies a censure nn all the reputed orthodox magazines in the kingdom ; for if it be , " proper , " that a reply should appear in the same magazine in which a religious doctrine is attacked , as your correspondent says it is , then ail those
editors act improperly , who will admit attacks , but will admit no reply to them . How often have Unitarians been both attacked , and grossly misrepresented , in Trinitarian magazines ! and when they have attempted to defend , or even
to explain themselves , their communications have been rejected . I challenge the Inconstant Reader to mention a single Trinitarian magazine in the kingdom , in which an Unitarian is suffered to appear , much less to write with the free
dom he has used in his communication in your last number . He cannot pojnr to any such work . No ., Sir ; it is the glory of the IVtonthly Repository to stand alone in the admission of the free dis ,
cussion ot all subjects . Your correspondent has made a reply to my Thoughts on the Unity of God- which he has arranged undcr 15 heads , ( see p . 492 , 493 ,
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4 £ ) 4 , ) on which I beg leave to make a few remarks-. 1 . Under his first head he says , cc It was useless to prove the bcm < y of a God , byway of exordium to
an argument againstMhe Trinity . ** This shows his disposition to find fault , even when the thing asserted did not . contradict his own opi . nion . I , however , am still far
from thinking it useless , as all the evidence we have of the existence of God , leads to the idea , that only one such being exists . Tins writer seems to think , that the evil which exists and abounds in
the creation , may be urged as a proof that some badness or malevolence exists in the Deity , as much as' his communicating life , a ad so many gifts , can be urged in proof of the divine goodness ; and hence intimates , that my system contains as insolvabSe
difficulties as 1 hat of the Trinitarians . This I deny ; for the evil which exists in the creation is very far from counterbalancing his infinite goodness , and bears no proportion to the rich beneficence which flows throughout all his works The evidence of divine goodness
is so full and conclusive , that not a man can be found , who believes there is a God , who will not admit that he is good , and that there is no evil in him . i can conceive
how all the evil which exists rtiay be consistent with the goodness of God , and be made subservient t «> the good of his creation ; but I cannot conceive how that wlijcn is numerically one can be mnu « - rically three , / and that which is
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page 614, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/28/
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