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and prod u cing the same consola * tions . ^^ ? f | * j / vi&kcs as dismal an effect uyfdii the understanding as upon the heart .
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Letters between Dr . Toulmin and Dr . Estlin . 21
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Letters between Dr . Toulmin and Dr . Estlin , oh Dr . Estliris Discourses on Universal Restitution .
To the Rev . Dr . Estlin . Bath Roto , 528 Sept . 1813 . Dear Sir , I am not satisfied with myself , that 1 have not yet offered to you my sincere and cordial thanks for the esteemed p resent of vour
" Discourses on Universal Restitution . " I hope I know how to appreciate it as an expression of your friendship , to which I have no claim on the ground of any like offering of any publication of such magnitude from my own pea * The omission , however , has not been owing to any want of respect for the character of Dr . Estlin or indifference to a share in his partial regards .
I entered on the perusal of your Discouises with-eagerness . But if they have riot carried conviction to my mind , you have apprized me , in p . l 66 , to what causes you are disposed to ascribe it : and I must submit to be con . sidered by my friend , " as having a mind sealed by prejudice , into wbich arguments can gain no admission .
As far as an author ' s confidence in the truth of his own sentiments , and reiterated assertions that things are so can prove a point , you have , my dear sir , proved , and ever * demonstrated the due trine yuu defend . Yet , unhappily , according 4 o your language ^ p . 4 $ , my " head is not clear / ' nor my
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heart honest , " if one or the other is to be tried by my admitting the sentiment you so strenuously advocate . ^ The uniform language of the New Testament on the subject of future punishment conveys te me
other ideas than it dues to you . That you have brought ij fur . ward , and avowed and defended your own views on ihe subject does honour to your candor , in * genuousness and integrity . I have my difficulties , which I have not yet found removed by your discourse . What a second perusal
will effect , I cannot say . But I have previously read Chaun ^ ey ^ Simpson , &c . Yet after all , neither they nor you , if I do not mistake , prove that Restitution is a doctrine expressed in scripture , but only to be deduced from it . The arguments stated by Mar * som and Clarke , whom I must be
allowed to say you have not treated with clue respect , much impressed me—You write as . if you knew not indeed their history arid merit . The sentiment they espouse was years ago , I would mention , supported and argued
by Dr . Joseph Nicol Scott : another person , whom my friend will be ready to think directive in clearness of head and accessible , ness of mind to argument . But I am running o ; v—excuse my freedom and believe me to be , dear Sir , with grevit respect , Your obliged friend and servant , JOSHUA TOULMIN .
To the Rev * Dr . Toulmin . Bristol , Oct . 30 , 1813 . My Dear Sir , Among the many unexpected events which have lately befallen me , no one was more unexpected
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/21/
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