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* Wrge , vffllV f Wrh sifre , W&w it ) then was { $£ writer of ttmp&ptv too deservibg of ttwatt "lippfcJhaU ttauu ; " ¦ ; ¦ --. ¦ - ' ^ - .- «" She niaft brought tfp . araerig-the
^| p £ &j& * i M ethodist an * , for ^ fce first sixteen ^ ears of her [ ftfe , eirdeavbured t 0 work h £ r »• mind Wp to a ' sufficient degree of eritbusiasm to believe she fellr the supernatural Assurance that her sins
were forgiven , ( with them , thfe Hifallible Sign of conversion ;) but ih-v&fn ^ for in despite of all her endeavours , she cbuld not sileiide the voice lif reason ^ though taught to call its dictates the temptations of the dtviL The small voice of
reason , — heaven ' s monitor in the human breast , told her that if God pdfese * sedI : fot&kncswledge a ^ nd Qm-T ^ ipotence , he eOufdiha ^ eprevrntedr the fall of Adam , and the conse - quent guilt and misery of all -his offspring . To get rid . ' of . this . ixisurmotmtabVc-bbJ ^ tioit , ^ she went an > png the CaMnists . But here she fSuria stHlIgi f e ^ t ^ aifficyte ^ , for if * KeA WMiahs deprive CJml
of his * * kft 6 W $ Sdgfc or - his rio t ^^ r , fhe ^ e ^ jprtvea him of Afl -atiriblife which could ^ in her < ideas £ be much ^ legiS spared ft * ofit- > his " 0 hd :--racier , —t-hi& ^ mercy . r i"hit » y told her , Goto' foreknew and dl ^ igjnerf
all everttsi &n& the cobsoqiietoee of this foreknowledge arid design is the etenkd misery of the groat bulk of mankind ; whrte a very few are a ^ bitraxHy' ^ Icctted ty unconditional salvation . .. Tbis doetiime
she never did or could * cjn&briice , though she'trted with all her ppwers , fdr sfife feoke d on scepticism witfefi 6 tr ^ - jkm ' ktlMt ^ oS no less excep ^ ltiBk ^ feewiie df h ? Kginii ; WWrffrtaKtf ^ f b # raim * was wti ^ - ' '^^ 'i $ &miBd 'i » entih > m xniierj , far shecould notiri
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dulge a sufficient degtfe of vanity to-stffppbse'tii % i «^ fr anfe of ^ e ^|^ eillicCiKi fav ^ ut-itrs ^ df li ^ aven ; oM > < ki the € > tfier < faat « d ^ iti was fals ^ sh < g y ^ r ^ rl « eifttdt ^ itk the dread of anBitritatiori , kri eunrnal sepaw "rattofi ^ frd m idt > sh « Jovetl or
va' ra ^ d- ^ In awtfcfeed s ^ alf , a state of ^ vhi ^ rpWorcfe can ciin vey no adequate- kita . she . continued & length . crf tinie .- At la&t she cast tiff ail r . ^ igfo » , assured that none could be t-riife which had not for : its
first principle , a perfect Deity . In this * sit 4 i&tioii , her sex , and a - seh ^ e of propriety atdne ip reserved ^ fter- morajs iiinetffraptbd ^ ' > if uncorrupted they could be called , when every standard of right and wrong was removed , \ yKen truth or falsehood , virtue pr viee > W ££ : equally , jndi flrerent ^ except > s $ } te dreaded the shame of detection or "trensure .
At length she entered the GraveV pit . hieetit ) g , \ 6 % t * ekr a sect ev ^ r ^ where spoken agaikst . " The stj ^ r ject of that day ' s disccmiFle ^ Jli i Jias : iiewr fdrg ^ ten ; v d ^ . ^ m ^ tik $ 3
iinoml * . attributes 1 x > f ^ ; ine n tM ' 0 ^ ^•¦ TW «? i s ^ d * fa * yi ** Yft ^ o ^ i «^ better tKmv I Havte' been \ us ^ 3 rjjto heftir- ^—Christianity may y #% M true , and Gosdrbe mercitu : ! : aiid wise /^ She xv « nt again a ! nd agaifi ,
one . prcjudiee , a , ft £ r another gaia ? way to the *^ words of truth' anil sobernesB , ** and in the course of ^ two years she became a professtfA Unitarian- . - ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦«» : ¦ t « : < i ^ !¦ ¦ ' \ From one of the most miserable she is become one of the happiest .
of human beings ^ . and - \ p jalI the trbuMes of life she § && faith * ft * God ? 4 ^ d joy in believing * „ . ! . ; To say an ^\ frwtS'i' as ; " to ' ., ia | qr alteration in her moral cKfiracter would paj becomib me ,: bwtJt « i « M leave tljpsgiiw&tf . know hax to cow * pare what she wa ^ and what she ?>«
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| 5 B Ttbnvefsioto of a Fentpte tqtIhyisH ^ ify 9 ^ 'tie , U ^ nfui ^ Ihdttitt
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 128, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/8/
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