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have quoted militate neither against the premises , nor the conclusions , in my former letter .
I think both unbelievers , and immoral persons , if they shew a disposition to frequent the Lord ' s table , ( and it is highly improbable ti * e former ever will ) may be deterred hy faithful remonstrance , without any assumption of autho . jrity : should this fail in some rare
. case , ** will not be an evil equal to invading the prerogative of Christy and violating the law of liberty . Respectfully yours , R . WRIGHT ,
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f indication of the J ) lalogue on the Scriptures in Reply to Mr . Sturch . £ i * tf I could ill spare time to write , nor could you conveniently insert , such an answer to Mr . Sturch ' s
animadversions ( p . 297—300 ) on my dialogue , ( p . 103—107 ) a ^ I would willingly Jay before the ' pliblic . I trust however to your will-known liberality of sentijnent , and love of fair investigation , for the insertion of tlje f a llowing
cements on Mr . | S—' s paper , ^ nd , in the first p lace let pie repark that in one instance ajt least Ij ^ r-S . has misconstrued piy m £ fLnif } g ; 1 tfiirik I mi g ht have said over looked tjie , mpre obvious intexpre , - 'tation , to lutfQ ^ uce on ^ bet ^ f
suited to hjs owp ( pujrpo ? e ; tfcgi he has attache ^ p a singlp , i § p-Iflted passage , a ^ ense ^ whi p ^ though as such , } t pi ^ y beaj-, yet a 3 it relates to the general tcnour , . f , , , I . . ^^ T ^ ^ " — — *?— ^ ¦ » »
;« f the yvkble , it cannot bear . aT ^ ' t ? r ln ^ Pce > ^ reprwept ? T as ffc Coaxing ** mV supp «^^ 4 ISf « ltife ' ^ w . ft % 4 lAliithiicrjpturet , he would
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if he had read with more attention , or written with . more impartiality , have said , that I wai
" coaxing" him to read and judge for himself ; to discard alt prejudices , as well those which oppose a belief in holy writ , as those which favour it . He would have said that I was urging ihi * friend to make that very manful use of
his understanding , which Mr * S . himself recommends ; and he might , if he had chosen , have added , that I was doing all this , under a firm conviction that whoever enters upon the investigation of scripture truths fairly , patiently , and humbly , must become a firm
believer in them . * To stir him up then to this investigation was my leading object in the appeal I made to a much-loved companion , and to effect this end , if it wqre
possible , I represented to him the extreme folly of entering into with greater interest , and examining with greater zeal , subjects , confessedly of a temporal nature than he had ever felt for those , ofwhick
the least that we can say is this , viz , that there is a preponderating evidence in favour of their having a strict relation to , and intimate connexion with , a future state .
But if my frieqd resolutely persisted , ( as in spite of all my representations he seemed disposed to tlo ) in declining such examination , I was , I confels desirous that he should hold to the safer side ; that
he should rather blindly believe , than blindl y disbelieve ; one of . which two things all must do , who will not take the trouble of exaf Hi } gje , if k > f . Percif ^ l in ? y *>? relief on , | s no jnstepce to ¦ * b £ « K irary , for , sayi * the Doctor , ^ . ( HfW ! confessed ttat fcfc ^ d . m& ' -ffa&W New Testament tSK $ p | Clfc » Pff ~ W
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CSO Vindication of the Dialogue on the Scriptures .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/26/
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