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vinistic systera * they are answered by a charge of malignant detraction . It may be useful therefore from * time to time , to record facts wnjch undeniably prove this tendency .
The doctrine of Original Depravity is a favourite principle of the Calvinists ; yet no principle seems more dishonourable to the Creator and more Iiostile to social
peace , happiness and virtue . My experience convinces me that he that believes himself corrupt , is not far from being so . Virtue unnatural ! What better excuse for vice !
But I wish merely to point out to your readers a case in which t&e . wretched principle of original and universal depravity formed ja covering into which atrocious guilt retreated from public
ignominy . You remember , I dare say , the name of Hodge , the West India" Planter , who th 6 ugh not old , liad gone through a long catalogue of cruelties arid passe d a busy life of murders . This ruffian was at
length arrested in his career of $ f 0 od and tried for bis life , which w $ s afterwards demanded in sacrifice to justice . To the jury who sat upon his case , he is represented in the ]\ Iorni /? g Chronicle of
July 8 th 1811 , as saying that £ i Bad as he had been represented , and bad as they might think hirn , he felt support in his affliction from religion . As all men are subject to wrong , he could not but say that TH , 4 T ruxNCji ^ X ' E mas likewise
inherent m him . He acknowledged himself guilty in regard to ytmny of ftf # slaDe £ *' - >^ Wb&ta prihrcfple must that t > ewhiclrpluces such anftbwer of buttmnity u } Kfi > 3 , level with the majority of mankind y or rather , which drags them down to
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his level ! What would an Evan ,, gelical preacher ( oh I ri ^ sapplted ternij ) have said to sufcK a crlmii nal , who already held so firmly the chief of the doctrines of grace / And how mischievous is a nation * al religion ; which allows such men $ s this the Christian name , and lulls them , en the ground of their baptism , into a deadly repose or destructive hopes ! I am No Disciple of John Calvin . '
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S % A Collection of JFacts relating ta Criminal Law *
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A Collection of Facts relating te Criminal Law . [ Continued from p . 30 j <* The Criminal , Law is in ^ every country of Europe more * rude and imperfeet than the civil . ' *
Blackstime . C&nim . B . iv . cb . 1 . " To shed the blood of pur fellow creature is a matter that requires the greatest deliberation , and tic fullest conviction of our own authority ' : for life is the immediate gift of God to
man ; which neither he can reagn , nor can it be taken from him * 7 unless by the command or permission of him who gave it ; either expressly revealed , or collected from the laws of nature ox society , by dear and indisputable demonstration * H >* " We may even hope , that when die
benevolent and more enlightened eye © f philosophy shall have inspected that important part of legislation , the distribution of punishments , this will become less and less destructive , without being less efficacious , and be gradually converted into correction of ott £ nde * a . Pistorius ' * Notes U > Hartley . Hartley .
v . liL p : 49 $ * ' awo . "• In free governments , the very act of enquiring into the grounds a * id effect * qf laws is a direct proof of increasing knowledge . It constitutes a presumptive proof of such improvements in * he
actual state of society as render the fattact code Inconvenient or opptttsfoffci and . when tjie expedtents » proposed by j ^ itelligeni ! men harmonLze wiifi the silent wishes Qf thci c 6 mmun ? ty ^ : itfeoeomGB the duty of every ^ ri se a » 4 nones ^ W » klature to supply what i * defective , apd to correct what is mischievbiis / ' ' ' PhUopairis Parvicensis * £ * 49 $ »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/20/
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