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^ could not contain the book s ich shoul d fefe Written But it would be less extravagant to conclude thatthfe nrantteQripts ia which those miracles were related , without a ^ n ^ le repetition , would cover the surface of the globe up to thfctiighfest region of the atmosphere , than that an infinitely wise $$ fcd benevolent tteing would inflict endless sufferings on the ofeeattires of his ? own hand * weak , ignorant , inexperienced , and bes ^ on all sides with temptations , for the offences of a moment * ^ ^ *
I would submit it to the consideration df our Uwtanaii societies , whether it be not an object equally worthy of their at * tention , to vindicate the doctrine of future temporary punish * ment , with that of defending the unity df God , Is it not as pernicious to think the Supreme Being vindictive , revengeful and malignant , as it is to give his worship to another ? May it nol have a worse effect on our own moral character ? Is it not as like *
] y to promote infidelity I I remember reading somewhere that Lord Shaftesbury once asked B p * Burnet if his religion taught the doctrine of endless punishment ? and being answered in ths affirmative ^ replied " , " Then it is no religion for tfie . " Is it no probable that many others are of the same apinioil vvith his
Lordship ? A » d why should not men be as cautious of enter- * taining opinions derogatory to the moral perfectidhs of Grod , a $ they are of calling in question the truth of the sferiptures } Not that they must necessarily be reduced to sueh a dilemma , but that it is a point of the first importance to form just and honour * able notions of the Divine Being , and of all his dispensations * Muidstone , Nov . ?• 1806 . tl . A-
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ORTHODOXY AND CHARITY ; ILLlTSTttAfJSD BY EXAMPLES * I MM ^^ g ^ pfaa ^ . 0 To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir , I lately met with a passage iri a volulne of travels which , as rather curious , 1 atn induced to offer to your Repository . The learned Sandys who published Kt A Relation of a Journey' * into the East * , undertaken nearly 200 years ago , remarks when
speaking of Palsetyrus , or old Tyre i a Forget I tniist not the custom observed by ike inhabitants hereabout , who retain the old world ' s hospitality . Be the passenger * As Sandys * Travels arc not very often ttitt with , I am tetnptcd to qtiotehls eldq ^ cnt description of the East in its prosperity contrasted with the condition in which he observed it in 1610 , under the , Uien tritimphanc but now happily decline ^ £ » dominion « f tkc Turk .
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wh ? " Orthodoxy and Charity ; illustrated by ExampleSi 4 T §
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 479, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/27/
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