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^¦^GfeLiti^'OtJS. GOMMtrNlilATDIOKS.
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Ito $ h £ JBttitfr of the Monthly Repository .
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imagine , scdrichly fail to excite various Replies . Lest 'However iio answer shodlcl appear so s 60 h ' as fnay be desired * I ' feel incliiieU to send
you a few observations bh the subject , not only for the ' slake of preventing &ome ' misapprehensions
which \ may 6 ccur from wrong statements ,- "but of narrowing tlie debateable ground between tlie contending parties . First then , ah Unifarten is not therefore a Necessarian . Nay perhaps they , who have best defended the doctrine of necessity ,
Tiavefeeen such as Edwards and Hartley , of whbin ' the former was a rigid CaTvinist and the latter an prthodbx * believer . How nearly the theological sentiments 6 fJ / Palmer , 'Price or G . Walker , approximated severally to what in the present age is caHod Uni ~ tarianism , I pretend not to say ; but it is ' . certain , they were all
staunch advocates for the fieedom of the human will . ' Before howev er you r correspondent can prove , What the doctrine of necessity is irrational , k may possibly become him to demonstrate , that the apostle Paul was not ' a betiev&r lii the
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-s&rrie , to distinguish 'between tfck ' opinion knd ih dtof an uhive ' rsil < pr < jtvi& 6 ti £ e ; t 6 shciw that the fofe-KiibwletlWe df tli ^ l > ei ty is not aii etidence fbPthfe plr < ivib ^ s
artooiatitieiit of evetlts , ktid to re « ect 6 n the gockl consequences , whi < Si H ^ attleyVin his essay 6 n ihe titec ^ hanism of Hie human iiiihe ! ^ fa&s stated as istrobg pf ^ sulrtiptions in its faVoiir . TJtiiv&rsal te $ tdr&liSn
may follow &s * an inference or cdrolfery frofn the admission of this doctrine ; but ' the itnpeniteiit , it is obvious must ^ ass thro ugh Vari « ous and difficult processes , wHidh tei « y fiit l ^ e ^ st f&r eVe ^ r rettiind them of rw 4 iat they have lost by Hot
fai-thfully continuing in well ^ doiiag-Miracles , like prayers , may be links in the chain of effects , necessarily connected with the previous causes . If the human mir ^ d could understand how miracles
had been , performed , they might appear as agreeable to the laws of nature as any other phenomena ; at least ^ Farmer ' s essay has sufficiently shewn them rnot * to be so much interruptions or violations
< tff nwtta ' re ' j according to the language of your correspondent , an de ^ iafiohs From common appearances for the sake of effecting greater good , of drawipg the attention "of the human mind to
important doctrine or to its own moral improvement . They who use not the meatjs , are not likely to secure the end .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/7/
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