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Dr . Priestley s Dying Spntiments . Sir , Aug . 3 , 181 2 * Having seen an advertisement on the covers of your Repository * of * Scrutator ' s LttteHoa the
consoling Influence of Unitananism in a Dying Hour /* I have been led to peruse that tract , but find myself disappointed by it . Though the author has given Messrs . 13 ogue and Bicnnet a deserved chastisement
for their bigotry , I cannot think it is done in a manner adapted to answer -any good end , either to them or their admirers ; nor do I apprehend that the frierds of Dr . Priestley will be much gratified with the writer ' s zealous defence
-of that distinguished character . J have always thought it a strange * m d unfortunate mode of expression , which the Dr . used iu his Jast . hours , with respect to Simp . < son' > piece on the duration of
future puni * tarn-nt * and am inclined -to . question whether it be correct * Jy , or fully reported ; viz . that the 4 * e jjef ot its temporary nature * V h ^ d been a great support lo him : tfyat we shall tneet ^ finally , only we , require different degrees
of discipline , Vv&c . The use which Bogue ; and Bennet have jnadeof these expressions , ( though natural enough to persons of , their cast , ) is highly unwarrantable . and infamous , having infenred from . hence , that the Dr . was sensible . that hue . was going to . hell * , and all tfye comfort , he had w as * that his suffering there would not be eternal j . . ,.-..-. But how . does Scrutator answer
this injunuus interpret a tipn of the X&r ^ Jaiiguage ? Strange to tell ! by , admitting the fact , Jhat the Dr .. tbonght himself going , ( yea , that he is actually gone ) into a
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state of punishment , but that hi punishment wilt not be so severe or so lading as tbat of greater pinners ! S&e the writer * ^ awn words .
page , 11 . 4 < Isjthere no diiEerence in t } ie .. . PBGREB of punishment which in all probability , tpill await the Doctor ) and that which shall be inflicted on the . vqrigst . wrej eh
that d ieel unparqon . ed I . What , h tnis , bpt k representing * Dr .. JR . a $ hvlding the pagi&h doc tine of pur * gajipry ? . ^ .- ; ' . . . .. . ^ ^ , .. ., . Thpughit is tru ^ fee believed that those who live and di ^ iwicked
will be purified and reibnn , ed by the sufferings of , g , jfutujre > > state , and that even the most abandoned of mankind will all be happy at last , ( which I , deem ^ n erron
though 1 do not think they will live in . eternal toirmenjts , ^ , |>^ ask whether there is a , passage an all the Dr . ' s work ^ -VMhicfei qouu te * nances the idea , that trjq virtuous
^ nd pious will ne ? . d \( &ny punish * ment in a future world to ftt them for the heavenly f ^ cpity ?| ; I > never met with any thir ^ g bkpjit in ' bis ^ or . ; indeed ai > y oth ^ r ; ^ nlt ^ ian
writings .. : JNor ; ^ n , j i ,. ^ -lany thiqgiin 4 the ajbqve . e ^ i ^ ps ^ i ^ npf ( J ^ e , ^ on his , sde ^ th , Jtxed , wh ^ C ^ aB ^ candid jwr . ite ^ pQu )^ ^ t ^ r p ^ M ^ PP ^ yiOg Ma jappre ^ wpio ^ i tM fc > h& ^ V ^ gpipgintQ rf * $ tep $ \ pf fkX $ fr in gr » TH , ; Mtmosti . tM ? t , J , fttit
c ^ rifa | rly bqjflade ^ If tfoe tmmPr Py ^^ F ^? s | o ^ re ? p ^ 9 ^ ng tfa cpm-* P # k 9 iM 4 tJfy belaying , ^ fiW r ^ stpratipn ^ jop ^ . . as it ; ^ ec | ed " tlipse . ^ o Jive and jd ^ e m \ ^ >; ^ , A ? to , Ji ^ sfilf , though l ,. mator ri ^ lly ; diff ^ frpm ^ mr ip ,. * wp pq ^ nfs of ^ tqn ^ I ^ ia y ^ a b ^ ler
hn J »« l ^ , ? i ) e , , («/ idi 8 cjpJiBS' ; , ^ a future world , and that what he suffered in this -t ^ as abunda " /
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^ 10 . jPn ., PriQrtley * * DyiqgSentiments .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1812, page 510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1751/page/34/
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