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upon their beads , when death , viz . the fa ^ ft&d second 4 eath * shall be swallowed up m victory , arid -God shall be all in alL Secondly , it , coinpletely denies the power of progressive improvement in the human soul ; destroys the efficacy , and consequently lessens the rnetires to repentance ; annihilates the value of $ he Saviour ' s
admonition , to stride after perfection , even the perfection of him whose knatfe we bear ; and damps the foadlycherished aspirations x > f the wayworn but sainted pilgrim , by inducing ou
his raind the fearful and chilling apprehension , that , there is no ultimate haven of repose z , no security from ill - no—not even whert enjoying the more immediate presence and approving smile of his benevolent Creator , in
the mansions of his promised heaven ; hut that through eternity temptation will beset him ; and by leading him into guilt expose him to punishment , necessarily aggravated in proportion to his progress in his immortal career , and the height of virtue from which lie fell : for fortunate indeed must be
that soul , which , being ever under temptation or liability to err , should maintain a successful conflict with its imperfections throughout an endless extent of being . In what light will the proposition , that " every oeinsf
not subject to moral and natural evil must necessarily be infinite ; " or again , that " it is not in the possible power of Infinity itself to create u being not subject to moral and natural ill "—appear , if applied to our exalted Redeemer ? Shall be who was
even in tliis world without 8 ia , and whose exalted virtues . ^ ere perfected through suffering and who is now set down at the right hand of hi *
Almighty Father * shall he too , through eternity , be subject to miscalculation , to error , and ta guHt * The suppo ^ ittion ia too preposterous , if not too profane to be admitted for a moment ! » ut the theory in question cannot 4 B « - this
<* pe overwhelming confutation , out m the creed of the Trinitarian : and it is needless to observe thaiif ^ ne created being caa be supposed to *« aa exception- to . the views « f your ^ respondent ; the whole argument 7 * ?¦*» to the ground . Beside , « 5 ? T *^ STOW * i jo § neeatsicy we
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ledge of a created being is Dot infinite , it must he eoiratantl y subject to natural and moral ill , I mm at a total loss % o conceive . Sitrcly there may lie beings of a higher order in the scale of intelligence thtin man , thotisk
at an almost inaBite distance below the absolute wisdom of the Supreme * who may have a perfect and coininanding knowledge of all the relations and . circumstances coutiectod
with Uie imiiUBdiate aphere iu which they are placed ; blessed with a cqa > ppreal frame iacqrrup ^ ible , an ^ i exr enipt from disorder and dec ^ y ; and still more blessed with the bright
sunshine of an unspotted soul , edgrodsed only with the boundless perfections of its glorious Creator ; and absorbed in aduri&g gratitude for those blessings , which are too highly placed above the reach of either
c < The mists of passion and of sense , Or of the tossing tide of chance or pain , * ewer to escape tlieiiK ^—A # ain—that " natttml ami moral evil are only arbitrary terms whk « h hare the mme meamngf /^ is ft position , I thiak , that cannot be maintained , nor that **
natural eril constantly arises from moral evil , and vice versa ; " for » * 1 ~ though the former may in rooet ca « ea be trac , ia haw many k ^ ta ^ ces 4 oe ^ physical evil lejui to moral good t Mow do the sacred writings abound with passages , teaching us that afflie * ia to
tions are often ^ ent mercy veetU fy had <* xpel the inoml ffee ^ fc ^ i . of the mind ! No two pi&tciple * , rifely , can be more distinct ; lYt&titwt as to their comparative m&grAQu&b as well as durability ! Pln ^ frical eri ) , we bewe every rez&on to . belie ^ e ( 1 teke tt » e worn of God for my gnideJ eon .
ex-, tend no farther than the Nunrisa of tfeis sublunary scene , wbile moral iHl accompan y the fll ^ fh ^ of the immortal spirit into && rtsgkms of < Hemtty . How deep , bow lading , tnay be the temn , which untep « oited 9 v \ z . iimr * -
dkated guSkt ^ mmy ftx on the oonfedous fkttd ^ eflec tl flg 1 sou ^ wtren r ^ lea ^ ed from i te teftemeAt of - d ^ Vj Afid what Wtter aud enduring dweiplirte mtsy be neee&s ** y W tetteir * h& iipoioittti ig ^ id t ^ tfc e parity erf heaveo , k toft m > t perhaps V , nt 6 ^< l Imo tbf heart M ' h * w tti c < nmA * &i f 6 ^ Uttte 4 o we feww jof jtt # iiyet ^ dut pritic ^ of
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On 4 Otke receniUypot hes ? $ of ^ h * Origin uf flviL 587
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1823, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1789/page/27/
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