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very trtirch ^ Kalt m ^ joys &ndimp rpvrttwiits o ( the good , and as Ifiuch heighten the horror ami rage of ^ fbe- ^ widked ;;** ? A * n # thef repdted unbeliever , in pond uct happily d 4 &tinguished frwm fcord i R o ^ heste * , is said to have
entertained die same objection to Re ^ el ^ fioti , on the ground of its alledgrd doctrine of endiess punisliinent . The passage is in Biog . Britt . fiv . ) and introduced in the
ftin&wing mantfer * ! i ; lMr , how Dr . Huntingford , the Je&rned Bishop of Gloucester , c&mmunicated to Dr . Kippis , in 17 ^ 9 * for his Life of Lord Shafteebury , sortie € i anecdotes' and
observa-* 46 fts . * ' In theseytfe ^ Preface to -Whichcol ' s Sermon * h declared to ^' undoubtedly the production of of tbat ttoblem ' an , and a fair presttaption of " w&al Bishop ButteV tteed to assert ; that had Lord
-Shaftetitfiiry lived in £ he present century , when GhrislianUy is more perfectly understood , he would have ? been a good Christian . " Mention is made of some ^ inavaiU iitg :, and ndw lost , " letters , in lirhich Mr . Locke recommended
^ C hffi &tianky to his lordship /* These - Had been a few years before ** read 4 By- two getfttetntinf who » were so f Effected by the st * on ^ and pressi ng 1 terras in which Mr . L , expressed ^ fe ^ enti ^ nerits ifcAt they c *> 0 h * 'not abstant from U&te . ** To tfciseom . 4
tnunication Dr . ^ Kippi ^ subjoins ? t he / lMoWing p ^ issige : * - ^ ih i « c Y |* ere fe a fmditiofi ^ that / amidst oiherdiffitukics which
oc-Wned tb'tfoe'Earl of Sbaftesbury ^ with regard 1 b ^ thie truth of / the ^ fehristiAn' reveteio ^ * " . he was star . ^ tfe (^ at the io'ea of Ua containing ^ tfe $ « l 0 c € rhie i $ cto- eiemiiy ^ f -bcU li ; to ^ ti ^ t ^ s - tlVA t ^ be < 5 ons \ ilt ^ d « om ^ O * m ^ n |^ h ^^ 6 tt 3 ^ , \ wketber tbe-
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New Te&la me nt positively asserted that doctrine ; and that upon be * ing ^ assured that it xiiA , . he ; de « r clared himself incapable of asaeptr i ng to a system of re I igi on -. wj ^ cb maintained a tenet so repugnat ^ 16 aM hifr views of Xhe benignity df the tgreat Governor of the \ Ji \ jl ~ verse . ' * I cannot forbear to add
* he accompanying remark , which may Justly rank the biographer among the merciful Doctors . M If ^ " says Dr . Kippis , his lordship had lived in the present diiy , he would have found a number of divines who would have
given him quite a different answer . They would have informed him , that , in their opinion , Christianity holds out no doctrine of so dreadful a nature ; and that at the very utmost , it only denounces the final
-extinction of the impenitently wicked ; so that such , if there be any such , who after all , shall remain incorrigibly corrupt and abandonee ) , wilt , at length , no longer exist in the creation of God " e ^
One of Dr . Kippis ' s predecessors in the service of the congregation at Princes Street , appears to i have occupied his mind with painful anxiety , on . the subject of the divine dispensations as ^ tkey
respect the final condition of man . J refer toaletier wrkteiifby Mr . Say , of whose papers > ou ? tmve . gwen a large account . fVote j ivl < St v . J This letter ts in the cx ^ ieCtron ge nerally cAlledy ughes ^ dorrespondftn ee . ( ii . iJOiVferis dated March , 17 ^ 4 ^; Mr .
S . endeavoured to perswvd ^ himself , that tb ^ r 0 ( 4 iev 0 ^ wa& 4 % ^ ensi . t ) fe or'C ^ hscioliB beings who , upon the wholte © f his exiataace ^ sbould nor possess ah overbalance c ^ food to his evil v v notwith ^ t * tidiiig » the W&Mifikt # iHi rflatt ^ ^^ good and
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Infofaatimtmcerii&ngl ^ mid others * 4 & 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1812, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1751/page/15/
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