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bad men , which we believe here * after . ' * Yet he was immediately perplexed with the case of Judas . This letter to an anonymous cor * respondent , is followed in the col * lection ( p . ! £ > 6 . ) by remarks dated May 27 * 1743 , a very few weeks
* r ' fter the writers death , from the pen of his friend , Mr . W . Duncombe , a man of letters , the correspondent of Lord Corke and Archbishop Herring , and author of a tragedy entitled Lucius Juntas Brutus . Mr . D . has taken &
liberal and comprehensive view of this most interesting subject , in the following passages , which , I think , you will deem worthy of being transcri bed : — " Perhaps all those natural evils .
or moral obliquities , of which we so grievously complain * may be no stronger an objection to the rectitude of the whole system , than hills and mountains are to the rotundity of the globe ; and may answer various excellent purposes , though we « re too short-sighted to discover them . \ Vindictive justice in the . Deity , is > I owji , no article in
my , £ reed . All punishment in the hands of an infinitely wise and good Being , I think , must be medicinal , and what we call chastisementJ '
Mr . D . then quotes " a pas-« age in Milton ' s Mask of Com us /' Virtue may he assailed ^ &c . as seeming 4 t to comprise the marrow of theology /* and adds : — 4
* What St . Paul speaks more directly of the reconciliation both of J * w » And Gentiles to God , by Jesus Christ , Romans xi . 32 . For God hath concluded them all in
unbelief tkafi ) he might have mercy vp *>* 4 * U i 1 &xn witting to undertannf mrik mace extensive sense , of ^ general r « deaiptic ^ of cron-
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kind , at the consummation of mil things . With what raptures o devotion must every one , who cherishes this generous doctrine , join with the apostle in the follow .
ing pathetic exclamation , O the depth of the riches bath of tkt wisdom and knowledge of God ! How unsearchable are his judgmerits , and his ways past finding out . "
Mr . D . next sustains his opinion by quoting the well-known passage from a Sermon by Tillotson , fcnd thus concludes a view of divint Providence towards jnan « - ~ "Tbey * indeed , who obstinately refuse id
be converted , shall suffer punishment proportionable to their offen * ces , and such as the rules of justice and equity dictate . And this the order of God ' s government ,
the reverence due to his laws , the benefit and Jin al conversion of tht offenders themselves , and the . improvement of other moral agents , manifestly require . " ( P . 162 . ) I have quoted this writer so largely , not merely on account of his literary reputation , but because , unfortunately , not a hint on the subject is given by Dr . Kippis in his life of Mr . Duncombe , ( B . B #
v . 504 . ) compiled chiefly from tha communications of his son , the late Rev . John Duncombe , tha editor of Hughes ' sCorrespondence . There is a passage in that life ( 507 * Note M . ) from a M $ . letter to
Archbishop Herring , w&icb , if not already given , you may wish to add to your notices of Mr . Say * ** I never conversed /* says Mr * Duncombe , * with ft parson of
more learning qi ^ modesty . He was am excellent Critic , and had a fine talent for poetry . Put it wns ¦ his misfortune to have $ o penetretiog e j « fl £ mefit , tbfjL h «
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4 ft 2 Information concerning Lord Rochester and 6 th € ***
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1812, page 492, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1751/page/16/
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