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thinking that they had it in their power to h ' urt me / And in his Crito , it is in so many words insisted upon , in opposition to the tb 6 general sentiment , or at least perverse inclination of mankind , w $ 01 itoXteti ~ hiovrcu—we oi itoXXo !
tpoLcri " that we are by no means to do an injury , no , not even in revenge , for having received one /' With Aristotle it is an amiable and a manly character , to be no rememberer of injuries , fj , q ^ yr ^ triY . oiKOs '
but ivx&TOLXXcLKQs easily reconcileable and forgiving / It is mentioned by ^ Nepos , to the honour of Epaminondas , that he never remembered an injury or an affront /' * Nullam adhibuit memoriam
contumeliae . ' His character of Atticus has the same eulogium : — c Nequesi quam injuriam acceperat , non raalebat oblivisci quam ulcisci . ' 4 C He never received an
injury , but he strove rather to forget than to revenge it / ' And the very basis and fundamental sentiment in Cicero ' s celebrated oration pro Ligario , is the excellence of this virtue ; as he himself observes at the beginning of it . ' Omnis oratio ad misericordiam tuam
conferenda est / " Bulkley ' s Economy of the Gospel , p . 8 , 9 , 10-Although this extract appears to me to be abundantly sufficient to set the question at rest , and I trust will convince the anonymous writer of his error , yet I beg leave
to add one more quotation from Cicero , on account of its transcendant excellence , and truly Christian spirit . — c < Nee verqaudiendi , qui graviler irascendum inirnicis putabunt , idque magnanimi et fortis viri esse censebunt : nihil enim
laudabilius , nihil magno et prae - claro viro dignius , quara placabilithte atque dementia . " tc Nor lire those to be listened to , who
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think it right to be gr ^ tl ^ bffended even with our enemies ; and who consider this as a proof of courage and magnanimity : for nothing is moite laudable , nothing more worthy of a great and eminent
character , than placability anil clemency . " DeOffic . lib . i . I am , Sir , Your obedient servant , WILLIAM SXURCH .
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Lord Bolingbroke and Mr . Whit * \ field . Sir , Jpril IO > 1813 . Although Lord Bolingbroke is styled , witjv truth , * ' a mighty champion of infidelity , *** uninformed writers have sometimes quoted him by way of authority , feirwhat are erroneously denominated ' *• the
doctrines of grace : " He is said to have declared that the Calvfeis tic scheme is the only consistent system of Christianity , and to nave thanked Mr . Whit field , after
kearing him preach , for < having done great justice to the divine mXtributes . ** What this nobleman thought of the divine attribu ^ s , ^ your readers may collect from his Posthumous Works , ( voU iii . iv . v . ) from Lelar > d ' s View of Deistical Writers , ( Letter xxiij ) from some
admirable reasoning of Gray s ( the well known poet ^ cTnd from Sykes on the E pistle to the Hebrew $ . £ It was his lordship ' s belief that we have no adequate ideas of the goodness and equity of God , as we jihi&e of his natural attributes , his wisdom and power * In short , he judged fit to attack the moral excellencies of the Deiiy . What fact £ ah be" a st ^ oirjrger
* See Monthly Repository , vol . ? & 003 . k ? ' >• ¦ •> " ' ' t Memoirs by Maoon , JUctler 31 * X InurOductioD , $ T «
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300 Lord Bolingbroke and Mrm WTiiifietd .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/16/
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