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    debt to four times its former amount . Had he foreseen this to have been the consequence , it is probable that be would have hpeii less strenuous in the recommendation of them . " Pp- 124 , 125 , 126 . * Extract of a letter from the benevo * lent Mr . Howard to Dr . Price :

    " Moscow , Sept . 22 , 1789 . « My medical acquaintance give me but little hopes of escaping- the plague in Turkey ; but my spirits do not at all fail me and indeed I do not look back , but would readily endure any hardships and encounter any dangers to be an honour to my Christian profession . ' * P . 143 .

    Mr . Burke and his pension : « To the self-evident truths on which the English revolution was established Mr . Burke opposes the most unqualified abuse , denies that any such rig * ht as that of choosing its gOFernors , or cashiering them for niisconduci , exists in any nation , and has

    the hardihood to declare that the people of England utterly disclaim it , and will resist the practical assertion of it with their lives and for tunes ; that is , they will sacrifice their lives and fortunes , not to

    maintain their rights , but to maintain that they hare -no rights . This is truly a paradox worthy of the author , and exceeded only hy the greater paradox of the Government ' s having pensioned him for traducing- the principles on which it is founded . " P . 166 .

    * Dr . Price ' s piety : " Of all the qualities which adorned the life of Dr . Price , none rendered him more the object of lave and veneration than his unaffected piety and devotion . In all seasons and under all circumstances the great truths of religion were ever present to his mind 3 and the noble motives which they

    leld forth as an encouragement to virtue lad their full effect on his temper and conduct , in rendering a disposition naturally mild and benevolent still more amiable * and in raising a soul naturally serious and devout to a sublimer and more fervent adoration of the Deify . " P . 183 .

    We shall now make some observations for the purpose of counteracting the effect of certain of Mr . Morgan ' s statements . I shall not enter , " says this g-entleman , ) u upon the arguments which Dr . Sce opposed to the doctrine of necessity ^ * K upon those which Dr . Priestley ad-?* need in support of it ; but I cannot help thinking that it is as well for the world ? bat neither-Christ- nor his apostles appear 0 have professed this new philosophy * Stee , tot > . np , 128 * - * 132 .

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    when they delivered their instructions to mankind . " The instructions , which Christ and his apostles delivered to mankind , were , exclusively , moral and religious . With human systems of philosophy ,

    whether natural or intellectual , whether true or false , whether new or old , the first preachers of Revelation had no concern . Thus far , Mr . Morgan and ourselves , it is probable , are agreed . But , if he mean to insinuate that the doctrines and precepts

    of the gospel cannot be reconciled with the hypothesis of philosophical necessity , or rather certainty , we must ask for proof in the room of intimation : we must remind him that sneers and assertions will not pass with us for arguments . This hypothesis is

    identical with the belief that all effects must be produced by corresponding causes , that all events , not excepting those in which human agency has a share , take plaee agreeably to the governing will , " the

    determinate counsel and foreknowledge " f of God . Beyond doubt , it is happy for the world that a persuasion so consolatory and animating is established and illustrated by the discourses of the Founder of our religion and by those of his immediate successors . The

    biographer appears to be so little conversant with metaphysical disquisitions ( 88 , 89 ) that we wonder not at his reluctance to engage in them , at his desire to waive a minute account of a controversy on which , however , he , in truth , decides with sufficient peremptoriness .

    Speaking of his uncle ' s theological sentiments ( 1 O 8 ) , he says , " From his earliest youth , his opinions on certain points in religion , underwent little or no change . In his private letters to his friends a very short time after leaving * the academy , he appears , as in his

    latest discourses , to have considered the pre-existence of Christ , the exalted dignity of his nature , and the effect of his interposition in redeeming the distressed and degraded race of man from death and misery , to be fundamental doctrines of Christianit y . "

    Dr . Price ' s Discourses are before the world : and we do indeed learn thence that he considered the tenets here enumerated by Mr . M » to be doctrines f A ' ctrif . 2 * .

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    Review . ^ --Morgan ' s Life of Price . 5 SS

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 583, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/51/