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for an analogical method of observing the divine government ! God forbid , however , that the Pesemblance should hold ! For the exquisite touches of thisfac simile of the divine administration , we have only to look to the delightful picture of philanthropy which this ingenious observer has himself drawn , in the 4 th article of his charges . — -Who « but the
wildest of all wild speculatists , ever dreamt , of such a companion 2 ( except merely as a very imperfect representation of an all perfect Being , drawn from tke brightest example of human virtue , arid then only as an accommoda . tion to the limited faculties of
man , ) who but himself ever thought of making human actions the touchstone of the divine conduct ? And yet this is the man , who after throwing about his firebrands and arrows , ventures to pronounce those unreasonable whose doctrines he caimot
comprehend , and with whose tenets he is not even acquainted . —Can any thing be more preposterous than to take such an illustration for an axiom , in theology ,, and then to infer from it , " that the doctrine of necessity ,, if admitted , would annihilate the fou *
nRation of every religion , and ren > - der in the eye of reason all the language and all the conduct of men of every religion , ridiculous and absurd , beyond the powers of description V
A very few words will be suffi - cient to quench the 4 i , h fiery dart , of this mysterious eiiampion , although it comes kissing as itjlies . —**'• Another irrational doctrine
held by the * Unitarians , " he tells us , " is , that notwithstanding the present state of the world it was
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418 Ca $ iigatOT & Answer to the Ckiirchittan .
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the bbject of the mission of Jestwr Christy to reform the world .- '— - '— . Now indeed our churchman speakt boldly out ; if he had done so at first , he would have saved much trouble , both to himself and others . —In his zeal for religion , this good gentleman is somewhat
too hasty ; either his zeal has outrun his prudence , or he is gifted with a speed which can outfly ths dispensations of Providence . —* His impetuous spirit beholds nothing fou » fc dronish stupidity and
lazy torpor ia the plans of divine government . —How absurd , to imagine that Jesus Christ came to reform , the world , since we sea that it is not already perfect !
Thedoctrines of Jesus surely breath © nothing but war and bloodshed , or the sword ' would , in an instant ^ drop from the palsied hands of alt military heroes . Probably
this sanguine reformer has so welt studied the page of history , that he finds the present age not a shade better than that in which the lords and ladies of Rome
posted to the fights of gladiators with as much glee as our ' s , in these degenerate days , drive to a route or an opera ; and when the grave senators of Greece , on
account of some vile intrigue or cut * ting sarcasm , ordered whole cities to- be swept from the face of the est $ fib T and the plough-share to be driven over tbeir smoking
ruins .. —Bad as our present circumstances are , would this admirer of ancient days wish to exchange the times I Hse perhaps has a vine or a fig tree , uader the shadow of which he now
sometimes safely reposes ; but he surely must just have awakened from a dream , or be still under the effects of some lulling opiate ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/18/
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