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mitm % o Ms scheme or defect to Ids p < m 6 r ± except the defect of working absurdities and "contta < fi < 3 iktti 8 , wHich is no defect i& trtrth , the resxtlt of ere « &m mifiit be such as we find it . With reverence I add , Hie Lhdtrt had
ao : option ; eril mast ' occasionally appear , but no more than the $ fe $ taf& ctf things necessarily generates . If my principles be correct ^ and I think them uu-on testably eo , then ,
f * In spite of pride , in erring reason s spite , Qne . thing 19 , dcjar ^ , wbaterer is # is Sgfct . - .. , \ ^ Cfcmsequfcmly , to interpret literally the ttfea&tSful aftegwy of the fall , con * tamed in the Book of GfeuesiV mtist
be wrong . This the advocates of a literal interpr % ta « io& ^ virtually ~ adtft& The ^ tattributfe th € f > ifltft ) dUction < tf all e ^ moral and physical * to Adam * * transgression , and ydt place the retell lion of the Devil and his angels anterior to that event * If So , Adain ' e
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and pronounced by them&elv ^ be ao « Again , tbe advocates of a literal meaning , who kllovv the fore-know ledge of God * differ in soutid more
than in sense froto the schertie 1 pro- * poee . The ^ y rAamtain as I do , thdt did fteiftr po * € ^ eee ^ all ^ E ^ FBCrro ^ s—> mftnitd knowledge , wisdom ^ goOdiiess , power , &c , and y ^ t lie feas pnro < luc € « th ^ pres ^ it « y »« e ai of things Now , tile Tery faetvf it * exist ^ fi ^ ** s tfe ^
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txBee ia diflposfeiofifc * Tke tetter fe re * presented a § exenSng- < Sn ^ yClo ifeik e tftheTB infeeraflale ^ without benefit t *> hhnself , frotn mere malignwicy t ) f nature . To repteseBt tte Deity m # v&-hmtarit y adopting a pISn ^ to ^ it ^ m of fifiisery , when a tretfef o © e was in his powet , is e ^ hibfting him in the same Bght > and thus , without
intending so to do > tftey degrade tUe be * aevo lent God info - to Almighty Devil . Horrible even in idea 1 But to affirm that the Deity did not foresee vvhat ' would actually take place , as it depended upon man ' s free will ,
is only removing the difficulty id a greatelr distance . It is siraSalr to the indian ^ s mode of syq > p ^ rting t ^ e woirlil by placing under it ah elephant cro eodilb aAd eamek - The objeqtipn mtroduces us to a new kind of Gk > d ^ a Aort of demi-god , who kiiows the re * « dlts of part ot hk scheme only ; bat
this is not ft God of infinite kaewledge . It suppose * him ignorant of what is ftctumly to take ^ aee till illustrated by the event . Hqw cmi it be predi * cafed of Bucjbi a being that "he kn&ws the KND / rom'fi ve BEdiNHJNG' % which the Scripture akse ^ rte , if events are astrictly uncertain , unless it te meant that tke y tire known aa Uncertaintiea ? On ffiich rexdarkii I have rieithdr tLtne
nor inBiiiatioa to eomih ^ t . ' . Besides ^ this doctrine doe ^ hot jre Uevd dief cafe ^ of afisjr of Its , diffieklty . Caa that benevtiteno © be btfimte wjiitii |> lacea crfeatures in Btations , of risk * when it might haVa placed tliem iu
reaurity f In equivocal o ) 7 * mimstancep t } ie Jretult $ tf which ifc xcnkixntin ) may be happiness or mdy bfe ifleffiartile nn ^ sc ^ yl Is thfo < he wo ? k of bdneficence that \ B itojfakk ? But all those and sicdiiaa ? difficuftH& vxk obViated by the eonsiderotious whiell I hipre proposedof
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/22/
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