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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNIC ATION&
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letter of introduction-to yow , tot he is yet detained at Rotterdam . He is a learned and tvorthy person - You . are not one of those who shun their society who do not exactly accord ^ with you in religious sentiments * When he cotrees , he can tell you more
of our affairs . This week Mr . Gueunelon brought me your salutations and your excuse for not having ^ et answered my . last letter . Your letters are always most
acceptable to me , and the more frequent , the more agreeable . Yet I cannot allow myself to exact them from you so importunately as to inter * rupt your more important concerns .
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Mr . Cogans Strictures out some of the Arguments in " Apeleutherus , " with regard to the Natural Evidences of x « Future State * Sir ,
MY attention having been lately directed to tlte subject of natural religion , 1 send you a few reflections upon it , to make such use of as you shall please .
By natural religion , as distinguished from revealed , might seem to be meant that system of faith and worship which has prevailed in the world where revelation has been unknown . But this appellation is rather given to certain principles which , while they
have been admitted by some , have been rejected by others , and which have been Very indistinctly apprehended by the majority of mankind But whatever may be the principles of natural religion , and however clear may be their evidence , I ask , what has this
religion effected ? Has it ever saved mankind from the grossest idolatry and the most debasing superstition ? Has it at any period led the great mass of the human race to the worship or the knowledge of one all-wise , all-powerful , all-benevolent Creator ?
The fundamental principle of relir gion is the bejng of a God ; and it is generally admitted , thot there is no truth tu the whole circle of moral inquiry , which rests upon such satisfactory and conclusive evidence . We afeo , as Christians , believe that this God is infinite in "wisdom , power and VOL . XIY . & II
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I know that the delay in your replies is not ( feo be ascribed to forgetfolness of me ; but to indispensable engage * nients . Guerinelon gives some hope of
your going into France this wiiiter , and returning to England by way of Holland . If such a journey would serve to confirm your health , I heartily wish that you may undertake it . Thus
after a long absence I may have aft opportunity of seeing you , add enjoying your society , and probably of bidding you a last farewell . Adieu . Yours affectionately , P . k LIMBORCH .
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goodness ; and this glorious ^ truth we pronounce to be not more the doctrine of revelation than the dictate of sound philosophy- But let us hear the voice of an enlightened Heathen - Cicera begins his work on the Nature of the
Gods * with this memorable declaration , that the question respecting the nature of the gods is very difficult and very obscure . And whoever reads the Treatise through , niay see reason to congratulate himself that he did not live in an age when such a disputation could be held on such a subject . I pass over the providential government of God , to the doctrine of a future life ; and on this important doctrine 1 shall quote a few observations ffom a work recently published , and
entitled ** Apeleuthei'us , '' premising that though 1 differ from' the Author most materially , this difference does not diminish my respect for his talents , or iijy admiration of his sincerity . But I shall first make a remark on a
position of our Author s , respecting the evidence of what he terms super * natural revelation . a The history of & miracle cannof , without absurdity , \\ e admitted as evidence of the truth of any doctrine , since it cannot communicate that
certainty which it does not itself possess . " What it does not possess it undoubtedly cannot , communicate . But suppose it to possess sorne degree of probability , which indeed the Author virtually admits , there will certainly be no absurdity in taking its evidence
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Mr . Cog an * $ Strictures t > n $ &me oftlie Arguments m « Apeleiitiierns : Q * $ i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/9/
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