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and benevolent providence : I do , and must continue to believe , that it is the honour and glory of God to be a necessary agent , to be necessarily wise , holy and good , and that he can no more will or act in contradiction to infinite wisdom , or infinite benevolence , than he can cease to be . Unreasonable as your correspondent
may think it , I cannot help feeling a constant and inexpressible satisfaction in the assurance , that I , and ail my fellow creatures , live under the auspicious government of omnipotent benevolence . And , under thisim * . pression , I remain fully convinced that evil , both natural and moral , bears a very small proportion to good , either in intensity or duration , in the works of God ; that
while it continues it answers purposes of the highest import , which could not be accomplished in any other pr better way ; and that in due time it will be entirely exterminated , and all the rational
creatures of God will be virtuous and happy . To me , I confess , that it does not appear an incredible thing that God should raise the dead . And , upon the whole , though in the works of God , and in his
dispensations to mankind , there are difficulties innumerable , which I cannot explain , and mysteries , which I do not comprehend ; I can believe , and triumph in the
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MR . WINDEATT , ON THE ASTRONOMICAL DEPARTjtfENT Of DIt . JiEES ' s CYCLOPEDIA . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository *
Totncs , sin , April 17 , JSO 8 . As your valuable miscellany is a < Repository of General ^ i-
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full , unhesitating conviction , that the universal system , of thing * is the best which infinite benevolence could ' prompt , which infinite wisdom could contrive , and which infinite power could carry into effect .
If to give entire credit to these pleasing speculations , is to offend against reason , I own that " I am the most offending man alive / ' To your correspondent , arid to the esprits forts of the age , all this
may , and probably does appear unintelligible and absurd . They , no doubt , think that it is the characteristic of superior wisdom to deny the existence of a God , to ascribe every thing to blind chance , and to the fortuitous concourse of
atoms , or to maintain that the Maker of the universe , is an ignorant , impotent being , who would do better if he could ; or that he is a powerful and malignant being , who delights in vice and
misery . All this may be vastly rational and credible . And they who hold these opinions may be very profound philosophers , very sagacious reasoners , men of very
strong and elevated minds , and may have a very great right to sneer at all religion , natural and revealed , and to denounce all who profess it as knaves or fools , but — I do not ENVY THEM THEIR FEELINGS ,
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242 Mr . Windtatt , on JD ; v Reess Cyclopedia .
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terature , " as well as of < c Thco * logy , " I shall be much obliged by your inserting ii * it the following query ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/14/
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