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an infinitely wise , just and benevolent Creator . This axiom , Calvinism , if admitted , proves to be false . The first and great commandment is , " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart ; " this commandment Calvinism sets aside by rendering the observance of it impracticable . On the other hand , the command refutes the doctrine . Calvinists with other Christians admit , on the evidence of scripture , that God is infinitely good 5 but Calvinism reduces this infinite goodness to mere theory which fact most woefully contradicts . And , strange to tell , the causes which prevent the exercise of this attribute are found in the Divine Nature itself ! Scripture assures us in various ways that mercy is what God delights to exercise ; but Calvinism sets up in its stead an infinite indignation at a supposed infinite evil , which reigns in the divine dispensations , triumphs over wisdom , equity and goodness , and which nothing can satisfy but the eternal sufferings of myriads of creatures , whose grand crime ( as they were born with a nature radically corrupt ) has been , that they were destined to exist ! 1 ! And now , Sir , as it is not probably that I shall trouble you again on this subject , I should like to take my leave of it with saying a word on the tone in which my observations have been written . Conceiving Calvinism to be a most gross corruption of the best gift of God to man , I have exhibited its inconsistencies and its horrors as they have struck my own mind with unrestrained freedom , but without even an evanescent feeling of ill-will towards those from whom I differ thus widely . Strong as is my conviction of the absurdity and impiety of the system itself , I shall ever Jose sight of the theoretical Calvinist when found in the person oftheprao tical Christian . 1 arn , Sir , Yours respectfully , E . COGAN .
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furnish him with a confession of niy faith . But as my life has been devoted to the instruction of young people , I must not withhold the desired information on the present occasion . My religious opinions will be found detailed in my Twentieth Anniversary Sermon , preached at Worship Street November , 1811 . And should the inquirer wish to see the Middle Scheme perspicuously stated and ably defended , he is referred to Dr . Richard Price ' s Sermons on the Christian
Doctrine j the attentive perusal of which may afford young Scholars ( if not too confident and opinipnative ) considerable improvement . As to my revered friend , the late Rev . Hugh Worthington , it is passing strange that any one * individual of Salters' Hall
congregation can have any doubt of his disbelief of the Trinity , since he is known to have delivered from the pulpit this memorable declaration" 1 must first lose my understanding and likewise my sight before I can believe my Saviour equal to my God I" I am , Sir ,
Yours respectfully , J . EVANS .
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74 $ Mr . Evans on ftis Religious Opinions .
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Islington , Dec . 10 , 1815 . Sir S I , am not the author of Mr . ADendy ' s Obituary I should be justified in treating with silence the Young Scholars modest call on me to
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Sir , r ~| " ^ HE promotion of a subscription JL for the suffering , persecuted Protestants of France is truly honourable to the Dissenting Ministers of London . Besides relieving distress , it will hold out to the French an assurance of our hailing peace , in the
spirit of peace . It will shew the government of that unhappy people that there is a tribunal to which even generalissimos , prime-ministers and kings are subject , the tribunal of public opinion , before which persecutors , nnnressnrs and destrovers tutorsoppressors and destroyers
, stand condemned . Oliver Cromwell set on foot a general collection , in 1655 , for the sufferers for conscience' sake in the valleys of Piedmont , heading the subscriptions with a donation of 2000 / .
This might not be princely , but it was Christian , and the example was not without effect , the collections amounting to about 4 O , 000 Z . Amongst the distributors of this bounty were Calamy , Caryl and other nonconformist divines . AN OLIVE RIAN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1815, page 748, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1767/page/20/
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