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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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580 Mr, Btlshatn on the Consistency and Truth of Divine Revelation
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Hackne y ^ SIR , October 10 , 1808 . Though I tlo not set myself up as a cunning man to answer hard questions , yet as your
correspondent Veritas in your last Repository requests to -know my sentiments 'Upon the subjects , which he has proposed , I am willing to state as briefly as
possible what appear to me to be the best solutions of his questions , without knowing , or indeed expecting , that they will give equal satisfaction to others , and without
meaning to enter into any controversy upon the subject . In the first place , I would premise that the form of your correspondent ' s questions is extremely objectionable , and that no well informed person who has a just sense of the narrow limits of the
human intellect would pretend to give a complete reply to them . Veritas asks why such and such things are ? ' The proper question is are such things facts ? If this point can be
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On hearing this , she hastily quitted her home , and took refuge in a neighbouring village * , where their inhumanity
and malevolence could not reach her . ISAAC NICHO LSON . Little Paxton , July % Stt > > 1808 .
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established , we may perhaps be permitted to speculate upon the reasons mid final causes of them , and it will be a great satisfaction if ive Can discover reasons which appear to be worthy of the divine character and attributes . But if
in any case we cannot assign satisfactory reasons for the divine conduct , or discover valuable and important ends of his dispensa .. tions , we are not for that reason to reject rational and convincing evidence , but while we ' admit the
fact , it behoves us to acknowledge our ignorance , to acquiesce in the divine government , and " Where we can ' t unravel learn to trust . " \ The first question is , " Why the manifestation of the supreme Beinsr to mankind under the Old
Testament , should be of a nature so different to that under the New , as in the former case to command the Jews to destroy the surrounding nations , and in the latter to command us to love our enemies ?" To this I reply that the fact is
? I have been repeatedly told , that eleven people out of twelve in this neighbourhood , condemn me for taking Ann Izzard into my house ; or in their language , for * harbouring * uch a wretch . _ . I must acknowledge it is a matter of perfect indifference to me ; whether they approve or condemn me for shewing compassion to a fellow creature in distress . " It may be that the Lord will requite me goo ^ for their cursing * . ' * % Sam . c » 16 . v . xz %
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MR . BELSHAM ON THE CONSISTENCY AND TRUTH OF DIVINR REVELATION .
580 Mr, Btlshatn On The Consistency And Truth Of Divine Revelation
580 Mr , Btlshatn on the Consistency and Truth of Divine Revelation
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 580, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/4/
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