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of virtue and happiness , which they could not ; otherwise attain . These qualities may not procure for him a name with the multitude ; but they will ensure him a place amongst those divines that have raised the standard of intellect , and vindicated the , sanctity of morals and the majesty of truth . —i
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Art . VL—An Attempt to support tUt Diversity of Future Rewards * 8 Vo , pp . 62 . Button and Son . 1817 . f j ^ HE Author of this tract appears Jt to be a Calvinist ; he is certainl y a serious Christian . His " . Attempt "
is modest and ably-argued and well . written . The hypothesis which he undertakes to support is embarrassed by the Calvinistic doctrine of salvation by the merits of Christ , but he very freely replies to the objection , in a straiu of argument which some of his brethren will not approve :
• The merit of Christ is not tlie merit of his people \ neither can it be . Tt is npt transferred ; nor is it in the nature of thing ' s capable of being * transferred . They are rewarded through , rather than for ^ his merit ; or , in other words , they are
rewarded for the sake [ o / j , which is precisely the same as through * the worthiness of the Saviour , which worthiness or merit remains , and must for ever remain exclusively his own" Pp . 18 , 19 . The Diversity of Future Rewards is argued from the analogy of the Divine pioceedings , the great diversity of
Christian experience , the vast variety of natural capacity , the different degrees of moral excellence in the hea * venly state , the superior tendency of this procedure to advance the happiness of the whole society of the redeemed and the testimony of Scripture .
The scantiness of the last and best class of proofs ought not to bring the doctrine , which the Author has shewn to be highly reasonable , intd suspicion ; but it may suffice to humble us by shewing how little the Divine Wisdom deems us at present capable of learnings with regard to our future existence .
Two texts , 1 Cor . xv . 41 and 2 Cor . ix . 6 , sometimes alleged in proof of the Author ' s proposition , he candidly abandons as not conclusive . The passages which he relies upon are Matt . xx . 21—23 , compared with Mark x . 37—40 Luke xix . 13—2 ( 3 ; xxii . 28—30 ; 1 Cor . iii , 8 ; 1 Cor . xv . S 3 ; S Cor , iv . 17 ; 1 Thess . xi . [ iij 19 , £ 0 ; and 1 Cor . iii . 15 , compared with 2 Pet . i . 11 . To somfi of these references exceptions might be made * but others appear to us to be conclusive ; and , indeed , the point which they are adduced to establish i $ r *
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Art . IIL—An Essay on Election and Reprobation : including Observations on the Sovereignty and Decrees of God . By Ricjiard Wright , Unitarian Missionary . 12 mo . pp . 72 . Is . 6 d . 1818 . Art . IV . —An Essay on the Duty of Free Inquiry in Matters of Religion . By the Same . 12 mo . pp . 12 . 3 d . 1819 . Art . V . —The Deity of Jesus Christ subversive of his Sonship and Mediation ; and Inconsistent with the com * moil Faith of Christians . By the Same . 12 mo . pp . 12 . 3 d . 1810 . Eaton .
IN the first of these Tracts , Mr-Wright calls the attention of Calvinists to their peculiar doctrine of Election and Reprobation , ( the'one includes the other , ) which they are generally disposed to overlook . He
brings it to the light of reason and Scripture , arid shews that it is as inconsistent with both as it is shocking to every good feeling of the human heart . Calvin had before pronounced the condemnation of his own doctrine
when he characterized it as the Decretum horribile . We heartily wish that intelligent Calvinists could be brought to consider Mr . Wright ' s arguments .
The second Tract is designed to shew , that as Free Inquiry is a right , so also is it a duty : Many , we suspect , disregard the latter , even while they admit the former .
The third Tract is on a less common subject . Its object is to shew , that if Jesus Christ be truly and properly God , he cannot be the Son of God , or , the Mediator between God and men . It is ingenious , and we think conclusive . The cheapness of these Tracts fits them for circulation ; and we shall rejoice to hear that a wide diffusion of them fulfils the design of the pious and benevolent Author . M ^^ g l ^^
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S £# Review . *—An Attempt to support the Diversity of Future Rewards .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/48/
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