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Terence , so trifling in itself and so little understood by the million , Dr . Price is applauded as an immaterialist , and Dr . Priestley is vilified as a materialist . I certainly go as far as Dr . Price , and I do not go quite so far
as Dr . Priestley . Because rny philosophic friend regarded attraction and repulsion as divine energies ; which appeared to me to verge upon pantheism . But whether that which is never actually separated from its adjunct be naturally absolutely
insep arable from it , I really am not metaphysician enough to determine , so that in truth I cannot say to which of the two appellations I am entitled whether I am a poor , despised , degraded materialist who believe that
perception , attraction , and repulsion are inseparable , or a sublime and exalted iinmaterialist who believe that though not inseparable they are in fact never separated . My true position is , I believe , in the centre of oscillation .
Such are Mr . B ' s . notions of materialism and immaterialism . How far his friend ' s ideas may coincide with his own upon this subject it is not for him to say . And perhaps even upon the subject of the Lord ' s day , Mr . B ' s . ideas may not be quite so much at variance with those of his worthy friend as he
may imagine . I quite agree with Dr . Estlin , that the apostles instituted the first day of the week as a religious festival for the commemoration of the resurrection of Christ and for the celebration
of Christian worship . And I am sure that my friend will agree with tne that it is not explicitly set apart as a day of sabbatical rest in the New Testament , nor was it observed as such by the primitive church . Upon this question there can be no
difference of opinion among those who have read and are well-informed upon the subject . And if my friend is of opinion that it is expedient that a day of reliinous solemnity should also be observed as a day of sabbaticid rent : I content myself with the decision of the apostle : if one Christian regards one day above another , and another regards every day alike , let every one freely follow his own judgment . Let wot him who regardeth the day condemn him who does not regard it : and let not him who disregards , the day despise him who regardeth it .
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For we must all give an account of ourselves to God . But it seems- that my friend has been informed , that what Mr . B . has said on the subject of the sabbath " has injured the cause of Unitarianism in Wales . ' I am sorry for it .
But when I see it to be my duty to speak unpalatable truth or to oppose popular error , it is not my custom to inquire who will like it or who will dislike it ; or what party will be offended and weakened , and what will be gratified and promoted bv if .
My sole object is , at least it is my desire that it should ever be , to approve myself to conscience and to God . As to the acceptance and success of my honest , however humble , exertions I-am willing to leave it in the hands of Him who will carry on his own cause in the way and by the instruments which he shall himself
select and qualify for the work . I am satisfied to have had it in rny heart . 1 am , Sir , Your obedient servant , T . BELSHAM . ^—
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Afr . Cagan on his Papers against Calvinism . 747
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Higham Hill , Dec . 8 , 1815 . Sir , AM aware that when I said in my I last , that the Calvinistic system
can send a man triumphing to glory from the scaffold , I brought forward a case which the more intelligent and moderate of Calvinistic divines wifl consider as an enthusiastic abuse , not a just consequence of their doctrine . But the system itself does not positively exclude such a case , as it admits conversion to be wrought at the very close of a vicious life . I think my memory is strictly correct with respect to an instance recorded in the Obituary of a work published under the sanction of respectable names , the Evangelical Magazine . The- writer visits a prostitute on her deaih-hecL He awakens her to a sense of her sad
condition , goes through the usual process , and concludes his account with expressing a full conviction that he shall Theet that poor creature in glery . To the observations of my last perhaps you will allow me to add the following : it will strike most minds with the
force of an axiom , that it must he a general blessing to any species of beings to be under the government of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1815, page 747, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1767/page/19/
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