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its rejection by the House of Commons , having heard that its friends had abandoned it , assigning as a reason that , as one-fifth of every chapel was proposed to be made free for the poor , they would rather submit to the parochial rates than submit to this proposition .
I forbear to comment on the reason said to be assigned for abandoning it , especially as it is said to emanate from the Committee appointed to protect the rights of Protestant Dissenters , feeling convinced that if they did abandon it to its fate it must have been
from some other motive more worthy of their heads and hearts .
Being peculiarly concerned to ascertain the real cause of its defeat , having hailed the little opposition that was first made to it as another instance of the progressive liberality of the times , I shall feel myself greatly obliged to any of your readers who can afford me the information I so
anxiously seek . You will confer a service on a constant reader of your valuable work by inserting this in your ensuing Number . P .
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plished , and that therefore there is every reason to believe that the apparent failure of it which takes place in the present state , is only a part of the plan by which the Almighty and nil-wise Disposer of Events is securing it .
To this argument the admirable writers mentioned above reply , that the principle upon which it is founded is not supported by the analogy ol nature - that the completion of every evident design which it supposes , does not take place ; that every blossom , for example , docs not ripen into fruit , nor every embryo attain the maturity of which it is capable , and for which it appears to have been designed i that there is , iu those
instances , as great an apparent failure of the designs of the Deity as can well be imagined , and that as this is not supposed to be inconsistent with his perfections , so there in ay be the same apparent frustration of his plan with regard to human beings without any impeachment of his wisdom or
goodness . This is not only a reply to a very plausible argument on the side of a doctrine which all must wish to be true , but it forms one of the most forcible objections against it , which I do not remember to have seen fairly
met and satisfactorily answered . That it does admit of a complete reply I cannot doubt ; and if I venture to propose a solution of the difficulty it is with much diffidence—a feeling which would certainly have kept me silent
had I not known that your pages arc read by some able advocates of t \ ic . doctrine which Dr . Price espoused , and conceived that they may perhaps be able to point out some fallacy in the answer which has occurred to me
upon the subject , and which at piesent appears to me to be perfectly satisfactory . Should they perceive any defect in the reasoning , about to be submitted through your indulgence , to their consideration , I shall deem mvself under an obligation to
them , if they will take the trouble to shew in what it consists , and perhaps it may be useful to others . It ought : to be our earnest and constant endeavour to arrive at the knowledge of the truth , and to assist one another as much as we can in the attainment of this invaluable treasure . It appears to me that two answers
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Philosophical Objection to Universal Restoration . 427
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Edinburgh , June 1 , 1815 . StR , AM aware that you expressed a I wish that the controversy respecting the doctrine of Universal Restoration should be terminated in your last volume , and I do not mean to revive
it ; but there is a very important consideration connected with it , which I believe was not noticed , and to which tf it be not incompatible with the plan of your present volume , I could wish to direct the attention of your rea ders . I refer to the celebrated
objection against the doctrine stated by B « tler in his Analogy , and urged with uncommon force by Price , iu his U'ssertation on Providence . It is argued by the advocates of this Phasing view of the ultimate destiny ^ the human rare , which the doc-I » e of Universal Restoration affords , liat
man is evidently designed for the ^ Joy ment of happiness ; that he is . fitted for ignorance , for vice , for eith ery ' tbat li he be formed for ner of these nothing can be worse . o ntrived ; that if he be formed for * Ppiness nothing can be better : that > desi gn , being the design of the lty > must be ultimately accom-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/27/
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