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    Mr * Crabbe r s Representation of Universal Restoration ,. Mai don i June 8 , 1812 .

    SlK , „ Those who cannot 4 i vindicate the ways of God to man / ' upon any views of the Divine government , short of universal restoration , will be glad to find the professors of that doctrine recognized among the sects of the country , and their opinions represented fairl y * Under this impression , I send you the following lines , from Crabbe ' s Poem , called The jBorough ) which has just come in my way . They are , in Letter 4 , en titled Religious Sects . We have , it seems , who treat , and doubtless Well , Of a chastizing , not awarding , hell ; Who are assured that an offended God "Will cease to use the thunder and the rod ; A soul on earth , by crime and folly stainM , When here corrected has improvement gain ed ; ill other state still more improved to g ^ ow , And nobler powers in happier worlds to know ; New strength to use in each divine em * plov » -And , more enjoying , looking more to > y-The ingenious poet , however , appears rather to wish than believe th ^ truth of this doctrine , for he adds , —

    ( A jdeasing vision ! could we thus be sure *" Polluted souls would be at length so pure ; f view is happy , vrt may think it d » & > If , may . be true *—but who * haH 'add , it must ? < To the plain words and sense of sacred ¦ ¦ . ¦ . jiTiiffL * ' lA ^ th'aU my heart , I TevVcntlr submit ; But where it leaves me doubtful , aim afraid T * call conjecture to my reason ' s aid 5

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    Thy thoughts , thy ways , great God I are not as mine , u And to thy mercy I my soul resi gn * The author of The Borough , perhaps , never paid a close attention to theology , beyopd 6 is subscribed creeds , as a clergyman of the Church of England . He might otherwise have discovered from

    the connected " sense of holy writ / that he hazarded no conjecture , " in believing that God is good to all , and his tender mercies are over all his works ; a position which can scarcely be reconciled to any view

    of the Divine dispensations , which excludes the idea of universal re * st oration . HOSPES .

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    Hopton Haynes . Sir- June 25 , 1812 . In the New View of London , 17 O 8 , ( ii . 703 . ) I lately found ttie names of Newton and \ Haynjes thus mentioned among the officers of the mint , at that period . " Sir Isaac NewtonfT JCt . ( that most celebrated mathematician . )

    is Master Worker . 4 ilopton HayneSy &sq . Weigher and teller , &c . " This entry agrees with t&e

    statement in the Preface to the second edition of Haynes ' s Scripture Ac * count . TheNexi View attributed to a writer of the name of Hqtipn 9 is considered as a work of authorit T ,. < Since the decease of the warthy relict of Mr , Michael ibQc&on ,

    there has been added 4 ' olofe * " collection at Williams ' s library , a portrait oi Hopton Haynes . vvould noi tin en ^ ravini of mft ipprW ^ it , attached to | i JBfcw ^ emfjon bt pis , Ujcw v&y staVce worL $ C « SEftcient ^ y ' ^ m ^ W'SSiUI ^ cq ? t : r the & |? fefoe > 1 OflO ^ S-

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    434 - Hopton Haynes , -

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 434, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/26/