Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), August 1827, Edition 1 of 1, Page 585

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  Mr * Elton tfiu ^ st ^ ; ., > . ¦ . . ; - -: ¦^ ^^ Ufefc % f ^^ f * 5 Se ^ r ^ lSi ^ I t' 3 ? fT ^ iSMm tp > r * % * " - ' ^ 1 '* * ' v ' difficulty which lie found in « recpncill S ^ a ^ i ® ty , ^ ^ sSoMficSv defined wifli ( WK «^^^; ? ^ rSi M ffiWsfW M&o ^ t wtiiwir ^ < ^ '" td ^^ i ^^ ifee ^ iM crt » se o £ * tl % wMcfcl i ^? rtiH ^ ilf Btri-ature nataraUf thmv 4 n his way , the writert a ^ entiott be «^ e deeply ihter ^ sted in cert ^ v > wof ^ 8 # prp { ea 9 mg to remove the objections to Ood's benevolence , g # p 4 { fe $ t ftJM ^ P ^ M * " ^ - Ww >» works * assuming chiefly as their basia pfmosophiciPil necessity , the government of the world l > y geueral iawa , and t % t ^ eicy of evil * including , p f course , moral evil or sin , to the production j ^ f good , affected his miad inyerselv to their direct design . They indu | edJ 4 doubt of the benevojence of Gbd . The buriei of it was insupportable ; and in this disquiet state of his thoughts , he chanced to call to his recollection a remark of Mr . Soajne Jenyns , in his work oh the Christian religion , 4 b ^ 6 Wect > tnat c repentance could not undo sin . ' This led hini carefull y to review the testimonies of Scripture in respect to moral eva . The liberty of the human will , the lapse of our nature from original riffhtedu ^ sriess .
  
  the incapacity of this lapsed nature to fulfil such risMeousness , were the gradual dj ^^^^ *^ . lor such : they were , that unfoldeWthemselves to the \ vnter * s Baiai tJL way was opened to M& understanding for the reception © f the necessity , and the reality of an atonement . Of this he had been newly schooled to flunk , as incompatible with God ' s merciful attributes : yet the
  
  restilt of his Cnanged convictions Avas , that , from the moment of his yielding to these apparent evidences of Scripture his full assent , all doubl of the Jenevoletic « of God was instantaneoi ^ ly removed , like a veil withdrawn fron ¥ the cye «/* rMPr ^ ace , pp . iii . iv . ¦ ¦* . / Alter this a ^ bwal , upon the divinity and the metaphysics of which we shall $ ftM $ > jO ^ ryiitibii , he offers the fojlowing apology for publishing hkf ^ mMx : ' :. ., , . ... ... : " . . ¦ ¦ ¦ . ; ¦ ,
  
  ^ Jfitjierklil ^ r before felt it as a Christian duty to ' give a reason for the hope ^ < he feels that duly more imperative now ; if he has be ^ n A f »^ c ^ ns jioiis agent in the dissemination of error , let him be forgiven the ?^ wMcp > yoJ * ld bring to the altar of truth an offering of reparation . "Preface , p . lv . i , v have The autho had foil
  
  to thfe ^ asss ^ e we n othing to object . r a right , andit ^ wa »{ perhajps bis duty , to denounce what hedeetned his error , tod fo neutraitze , it $ effects by the publication of what hid farther studies had led him to believe M be the ttutb . Such open and inahly conduct comfttands
  
  our praise rather than provokes our censure . Whettj howeifav ™ &' wr ^ r so feelindy appesda to tqe candour of his readers , he otight ^ . in ooriftistetify , to htim mti ^ h&d ^^ allowances , ' by evincing a dkj ^ ttioft to K 0 ffeimself eqtiaiy ta ^ * fi ' Mr > Elt 6 n next proceeds to etaaign W teasoris * for departing " frota the principles of nonconformity , " as w « U aa from tlife ^ pniiciptes ^ fftil ^ Alll ^ vstxuV , i i « Dissent , M f Stei ^ #$ & beeii k&Mfy termed < tW * wip * t * sehfc ^ Jh # tho « e whft ^^ i ^^ judgment in renouncing GatholidBm" . StflU howeverv y ft&imdk * iMatoM
  
  ceive Aat dissent is a gospel duty ; " "he does not conceive religion to be a think of spite , AltkmWdMjHW by Christ , they were not therafyrts aftir <^^| y Iftf ^^ the Christian ^
  
  who eVtt-tHb hW'ffie ^ igrtrpto « W- their points of ttiffewnce , met u Oer on » to ^ : aBd ^ totB ^ fafO ^ i wjVl ^ ril ? . / ^ 8 Hehr «» |^ totiwiWe ^ wtewisd * which , in the judgment of the author , must annihilate ? N liifliQiW ^ lliMfr ^*
  
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- Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 585, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/33/

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