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XII . 665 , Xin . 28 , and p . 367 of the last Number . ] He will , however , remember , that it was made to depend upon my finding ' * an hour of leisure . " Now those who know
my manner of living , well know that an hour of leisure is not frequently my portion ; and I know no subject which requires more of quiet , uninterrupted thought , than the one on
which he has proposed his objections . Perhaps 1 should not go too far if I state , that since I ; wrote in reference to them , I have not enjoyed the ability to devote my mind to the subject , without some other claim more
immediately requiring my attention or exertions . I see , at present , no prospect of being able to redeem my pledge , in the way I should wish ; but having already embodied my thoughts in a less philosophical , but probably not
less useful form , ( viz . in a Lecture delivered on the subject of Divine Influences , in LewhVs Mead Meeting , Bristol , and , subsequently , in George ' s Meeting , Exeter , ) I hope to send you , sufficiently early for the next Repository , a copy of that Lecture ;
and I hope that this will at least serve to shew , that the expressions I have myself employed , and most , if not all , of those which L . J . J . has quoted from others , are perfectly consistent , not only with those sound views of
Divine agency on which the language of prayer is founded , and without which it would commonly be unmeaning , but with what he seems to consider as inconsistent with it , Unitarianism also .
As I do not believe , any me > re than Dr . J ., that we have any reason ' * to expect , at this timet such agency of the Supreme Being , as is not to be referred to the regular operation of his established laws , " I hope he will be able to come nearer to me than at
present he thinks probable - I suspect I have myself gone through the processes of thought , on which his difficulties are founded 3 and I rejoice in freedom from those difficulties . It has afforded me rest and comfort .
Two evenings ago , I received from my highly-valued friend , Mr . W « B . Kennaway , the affecting , though not painful intelligence of the death of our common friend , the Rev . Joseph Bretlaud , of Exeter . 1 doubt not that a suitable notice will be sent to your
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Obituary , of the departure of this servant of God ; and I trust it will be followed by a more extended memoir ; but the affectionate and . respectful
attachment which , for no small part of my life , I have felt towards him , would not allow me to close my letter without adverting to the event which has finally terminated our intercourse on earth . L . CARPENTER .
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Glasgow , Sir , February 10 , 1819 . t J ^ H E following , with a few trifling JL alterations , is a copy of a letter which was written and sent to the Rev . Ralph Wardlaw , of this city , about the time he commenced his Monthly Evening Discourses , on what he calls ' * The Socinian
Controversy . ' J . M . " Rev . Sir , " It was with pleasure I heard that you bad commenced a course of lectures , to be continued on the evening of the first Sabbath of every month , on the doctrines of the Trinity and
Supreme Deity of Jesus Christ . Your first lecture I did not hear , not knowing- of it until it was delivered ; but as I intend , God willing , to be a stated hearer during the reinainder of the course , and as , I presume , one object you have in view is the conversion of
Unitarians , I beg leave to propose a few queries , your taking notice of which , in some of your following lectures , will greatly oblige , not only your present correspondent , but many others also , who , like him , will be anxious to hear you .
" If , as Trinitarians assert , there be three persons in the Godhead , the Father , the Son and the Holy Ghost , my first query is , Whether are these three to be considered as three distinct , intelligent Beings , or three distinct parts of the same intelligent
Being ? This I consider as a very important question in relation to the doctrine of the Trinity ; for it must be obvious to every reflecting mind , that the three persons who compose
it , must either be three distinct Beings , and , consequentl three distinct Gods \ or , three distinct parts of the same Being , and , consequently , that each person must be only a third part of God . " The late Mr . Archibald M * L « an , of Edinburgh , in art Essay on the
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420 Dr . Carpenter on tJie Divine Influence
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/20/
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