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they by no means consider them as insurmountable . They admit that applications of this nature are numerous and urgent , but still hope for the assistance of that enlightened and most liberal body of Christians with whom they are connected .
Allow me then to give the following statement of their present circumstances . The debt upon the Chapel is still 700 / ., but by their own exertions and engaged assistance on the part of some friends , a list of whom with their subscriptions is now before
me , they have it in their power to reduce it below 400 / ., as the sum of 311 / . 19 s . 6 d . is already at their command . This is in proof that they are in earnest , and most anxious to
support the sacred cause in which we are all embarked , and still to enjoy the advantages and blessings of a pure and conscientious worship in the place in which they have for many years been accustomed to meet . I am
requested to state that the above sum of 311 / . 19 s . 6 d . is engaged for , on condition that the society succeed in their appeal to the liberality of the Unitarian public in carrying it up to 700 / ., and thus setting them free from the above pressure . Nor will any subscriptions be called for till the whole shall be subscribed . It is
also an act of justice to the mortgagee to state here that his subscription is 100 / . Could the above be happily accomplished , the society will then find themselves at liberty for the necessary
future exertions , and a regular or stated ministry might in no distant period be established among them . But if they unhappily faiJ , the property must of course be disposed of , and the society be possibly dispersed
—a society once" flourishing , and who were then ever ready to extend to others , in circumstances of pressure , their friendly aid . LAWRENCE HOLDEN .
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526 On the possible Exclusion of Moral and Natural EviL
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Sik , August 25 , 1823 . FTTTHE following reflections were JL suggested by the perusal of a paper in the Monthly Repository for
July , ( pp . 378—380 , ) on " the Introduction of Evil , " and are chiefly applicable to the proposition which the author evidently considers as incontrovertible , that " it is not in
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the possible power of Infinity itself to create a being not subject to moral and natural ill , " or , as he afterwards explains it , to pain and misery . How far your correspondent Mr . Hinton ' s claim to novelty in his
speculations is well founded , I will not stop to inquire ; but I should imagine that those who are acquainted with the pages of Archbishop King , Soame Jenyns , and Dr . Southwood Smith , on this difficult question , will not feel disposed to make so ample a concession as he may consider either him ^ self or Rusticus ( p . 85 ) entitled to
. If the origin of evil i 3 to be ascribed solely to the inability of the Deity to create an equal ; if liability to error and misery must necessarily attach to every being not absolutely perfect ;
then it follows that intelligences of the highest order , " angels and archangels , and all the company of heaven , " must be subject to the danger of erroneous conduct , and all its fatal consequences ; and what is still more material , that the state of the
righteous hereafter will be a state of uncertainty and peril . The unalloyed felicity which they are taught to expect after the present life , cannot , on this supposition , be permanently ensured to them , because it is utterly impossible that their Almighty
Benefactor can make them his equals ; and they who have been exalted to a condition of bliss , of which we can now form no adequate conception , may possibly in after ages forfeit that elevation , and sink as low in the
abyss of wretchedness and horror . With such sentiments let it be observed , the popular creed rejected by the Unitarians respecting the fate of the . fallen angels , is perfectly in unison . Should it be said , however , that the Deity having promised an
eternity of happiness to those who have rendered themselves worthy of it , will assuredly adhere to his promise , I answer that , according to the doctrine advocated by Mr . H ., since the Supreme Ruler cannot work
impossibilities , all the energies of Omnipotence will not enable him to give unlimited duration to that happ iness which , however exalted , inust , from the imperfection of his creatures , be ever liable to interruption and failure . If , again , it is alleged that he M&Y
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1823, page 526, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1788/page/30/
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