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amongst true Churchmen there has beeil no doubt on this subject ; th ^ y have very correctly decided that Rt verend is the style of one in holy orders , and cannot 6 e allowed , without an egregious abuse of etiquette , to any person pretending to holy orders .
Dissenters plead that according t < l common forms of courtesy the title may be bestowed on their teachers as a short way of specifying their office : in ihi ? there may be reason : but I \ vou ) d ask whether it be consistent with
modesty or Christian simplicity that Dbsenting ministers should assume it , as their due , and place it ostentatiously upon door-plates and
title-pages ? Is not thi ^ a humble mitnickry of a church , which scorns such as ape her dignities ; and a voluntary descent to the Ifevel of that low tribe of soidisant
priests , who wanting education , talents and connections , lay claim to rewrtnce by a name , a gown and the imitable tt cetera of priesthood ? PHILO-GOGMAGOG ,
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On Future Punishment .
Sir , Nov . 7 , 1313 . I have read the Letter ( Vol . VIII . p . 640 ) On Future Punishrheni , with some portion , I trust , of that attention which the subject and the serious manner in which
it is treated , justly demand . Rejecting , like your correspondent , the doctrine of •* endless torments " as impeaching u the infinite benevolence of the Deity , " I yet
cannot perceive , like him , as the plain language of scripture , that 4 C the wicked will be utterly destroyed * '* I shall not , Jboweven eiitcr at large iiita a question vthtm
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has been so often arid stiritfeH % r ^ gued that nothing tieW triuld easily bo-advanced , but rather con - fine myself to some points whictf appear to deserve your correspbrident s attentive review , leaving to that able and excellent Christo
tian , Mr . Wright ^ answe r for himself , if he sfto&N ?* tieratrr tor the inferences drawn from hfis&d ^ missions , as quoted p \ & 4 t \ . J Your correspondent represents * the Universalists ( p . 642 , ) as * * -tft £ * king a most unwarrantable Ir-P cence with the sacred writings . **; Yet he mast hear every day , " the words perish , perdition , destruction , death , which fire ip *^ plied to ftlture puiiishmetft , * ' e * irt £ ployed in popular language ( itt *"
such is certainly the language 6 fi the Bibl £ ) , when nothing ; tes £ & designed than to describe aslef ^ absolutely unchangeaWe , -Md& therefore properly endless . Jv S ^ goes on to . dispute the opiUfc ^ ny that u between the best of th ^
wicked , and the worst of th&gopd the shades are imperceptible . ^ Yet how does he controvert that opi « nion ? After proposing the 'jti $ t delineation of Ghristvah ^ fecfioi ^ " living in habitual devotion—*
seeing God in every thing arid every thing in God /* cfcn he , Oilreflection , satisfy himself , tfrat < who do not reach that emineri 6 e c < have not God in all theft ? thoughts ? " Are there then u ti& nice shades of difference * ' but si * e& u bro / id distinction /^ ¦ th&t' # / &
confirnv d sinner who dieth a hufrdred years old / or the hypocrite who i € devours widows * house * , and for a pretence makes long
prayers , is to be confounded m present character and future des * tiny with * Mhe ^ uife mftli y ilkl of understanding / ' whoy whiUbe
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fa On Future Punishment . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 96, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/24/
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