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    these Subjects . Beiqg the Christian Advocate ' s Publication for ¦ 1 * 11 . By George D'Oyl y * JS . D . Fellow oj' Corpus ukruti

    College , Cambrid ge * and Christian Advocate in that Universim ty . Cambridge , ' Printed : Sold by Riyingion , & Co . in London . 8 vo . pp . 86 . 46

    By the will of the late Rev . John Hulse , the Christian Advocate is required to produce every year a publication ; which m ?< y be ar ; answer to cavils and

    objt eti ns brought against Datura ] Or revealed religion , or xvhich may tend to confute 4 any new or dangerous error , either of superstition or enthusiasm : "

    Heiice we may fairly suppose that the Christian Advocate will often be among divines , what the Laureat usually is among poets , and will illustrate , in his own expimple , the disadvantages of a man constrained to produce a

    pitblicattoto every year , and to write under prescribed restrictions . Kit her Mr . D'Oyly has been thus affected by a sense of his situation , or the University of Cambridge is singularly unhappy ip his acceptance ojf the office , w ^ ich has now " dipt him -in ink . "

    In the discourse on a particular providence , we meet sometimes with a confusion of ideas , and almost uniformly with a want of

    clearness and precision , which , from such . a quarter , we should hardly Ijave ^ expected , and which on a subject so delicate and imporiani , are greatly to be lamented . It would Have been well if Mr .

    D'O y ly had defined what he means by < t "particular providence IVfucri qt his argument is employed in vindicating the doctrine of proyj dence in general ; and though he

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    ISO Review . —The Christian Advocate ' s Publication for 1811 .

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    in tiie very same sentence , that , according ro the plan of the divine government , which is unfolded in holy writ , ' * the Deity compasses his particular purposes by

    professes to throw out of consi ^ - deration ( p . 7 . ) ** the cases in which a miraculous power is ex erted , " he tells us , nevertheless ,

    comrouling the established- laws of nature . ' What then does the Christian Advocate understand by a miracle ? By the particular providence of the Supreme Being , we mean his application of his own general iaws to his various purposes , be they what they may , in respect of individuals ^ to their several ages , conditions , tempers , distinctions , &c . and to the other unseen ends

    of his intelligence and goodness . This statement of ths case , both explains and enforces the duty of acknowledging him m all our ways ; and it s ^ jcws that , in strict propriety of language , there is no su £ h thing as chance * in the creation .

    Mr . D'Oyly remarks with truth that ** —the effect on human feelings and practice , caused by pressing with extreme closeness the doctrine o f a particul ar providence , is nearly allied to that which flows from the chilling principle of fatalism . * ' ( 22 . ) In his first note he produces passages from the writings of Whitfield and Wesley , and of their respective followers , which indicate a sad abuse of the doctrine . This part of his undertaking , however , was equally needless with the sermon itself ; more riurnerous' jand

    • Paley ' s reasoning in his Natural Theology , ( 549—572 ) is to be examined , we conceiye , in reference to these observations *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/44/