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make it ^ even desirable to embody with truth th £ fables of Klysium and Tartarus , gently whispers in our ear , " that the evils under which men groan are » o various , so complicated and so general , that to suppose them all necessary for the result of good , which the balance is thought to prpve , is to suppose that the Deity ( if the superior acting principle ) is but a little superior , and that if good be the ultimate end designed , then al ) this mass of evil exists in opposition to the will , and in contempt of the power of almighty God . " After such reasoning , and such an at * tempt to poison the happiness " of the present state and annihilate the prospects of futurity , it is
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Maidstone t SIR , July 13 th , 1808 . A letter appeared in your Repository for April last , ( p , 184 , ) signed u A Churihman , " the design of which was to prove that Unitarians arc * not rational Christians . I hoped before t ) his time to have seen a judicious answer to that letter ; and think it much to be regretted that one who Was perhaps beyond all others qualified for that task , should only have deigned to notice it in a postscript , ( p . 240 , ) instead of entering into a full and distinct consideration of the objections and difficulties on which it insisted . As I found by your acknowledgments to your correspondents that you had received
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JJV \ Allchw ' s Answer to the Ckurchm < % it + 421
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surely , with no small degree of ( what shall it be called ?) cruelty or effrontery , that this hardy champion bids the rational Dissenters * seek God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent and learn , as men did of old , to feel after them and find them . "— -On a serious examination , of such a self-appointed ally , surely the language of every faithful son of the church and of every true be * liever in Christianity will be , non egi tali auxilio ; and even the most candid will perhaps acknowledge that he has not been un « handsornely treated , by your c 6 nstant reader , and the churchman ' s servant at command , CASTIGATOR .
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JHR # AIjXCHIN ' S iHSTSWER TO THE CIIUICHMAN 4
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another reply from a different hand , I waited for the next number with a degree of impatience ; but am sorry to find that it does not even attempt to remove the difficulties pointed out by 6 C A Churchman , " ( p . 296 . ) Both communications which you have received on this subject agree ia asserting that several tenets men * tioned in his letter have , strictly speaking , nothing to do with Unitarianism . I do not conceive that this is a consideration of much . weight ; for admitting that many Unirarians are ignorant ot them ., and that others reject them , still jt is incumbent on those by whom they art-e maintained to vindicate their consistency . I confess myself irrational enough to embrace
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/21/
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