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fe .. . enslaved by M | he sin which easily besels turn , has yet * some good thing in ? tura > " and is " not far from the kingdom of God /'
Xi , asJ . S * indeed offered any thing more than an opinion on tht& subject . To employ his own lati * gyage , is not this broad distinction a * structure without a foundation /'
Your correspondent ( p . 642 ) ap . jKars closely tp follow Dr . Price 09 Prayideaee , p . 142 where he acknowledges himself a follower of Butler ( Analogy , ¦ p . 1 . c . 5 ) r Vet those eminent Christian mo *
ra ^ ts ,, only indulge a gloomy phU Ipsophical speculation . They no nupe than , JV S , profess to prove ( win scripture that a large proportioi > of , I he human race may % ex peeled to incur a proper de .
s ^ jructipn t v because an immense proportion of plants and brute animals ney ; er reach maturity . B \ rtler ? indeed , probably believed , or at least . professed to believe , the doctrine of endless torments .
^ JTour . correspondent , like destmctionists ia general , seems to i ^ pive jhe vwhole punishment of t ] ae wicked into loss of being . Yet He Jhas ; not explained , whether the wicked are tp perish at the end of this life , qr to exist in a separate stafe , or the whole man to be
restored with renewed consciousness af tbe close of the present dispensation , merely for the purpose of th ^ ir annihilation Bui mo * t ex . Uaordinary appears the close of y « $ ui # correspondent ' s letter , in
Mthicli he considers his opinion as l aying a peculiar restraint upon vicious inclination . Can we h * Lve ftirg ^^ en ^ what has , passed in our ey ^ Bt fu l time ^ , ll ^ ve we nev ^ r fct $ ! t $ d pCj n ^ ift ^ hc ^ steeled their %# ?^ m ^ fmg ^ het ^ d t ^ eit hands
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to commit the fyul ^ t deejs , m >^ under that persuasion , to which J . S . jattributesr u a practical tendency to lessen the restraints to
vice , " a belief ' * that the punish * ment of the wicked will be long , and severe ^ but remedial and corrective / ' No , they rather in * dulged that belief maintained by J . S . with a far different spirit and design that " death is eternal sleep / ' , BEREU 5 .
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Mr . Wright en Future Piltiish * merits To J * S .
Wisbeach , Dec . 9 , 1813 . Dear Sir , : In your communication on Future Punishment ( VoU VJIf ^ p , 640 ) , you have dpne me tbe ^ honour to mention . my name , ^ ndL
make some quotations from niy > Essay on the subject . I take the ^ liberty , in return , of anijn ^ tdv ^ rt : ^ ing on some of your obser-y ^ lions * . I agree , that no opinion ve ^ specting future punishment ought to be admitted unless it can be
supported by the authority of the New Testament . On this ground precisely , I reject the doctrine of endless destruction . The proofs produced by its advocates appear to me insufficient . Forms of ex ~
pression equally strong areapplie 4 in the Old Testament , to Ux 0 punishment of men in this world , as any you can find applied ia the New Testament , to the future , punishment of sinners . When you read of the utter destruction of
persons in the OJd Testament ^ you do not suppose endless loss of being to be meant , thotyg i * np . thiog is sai 4 there of the resifo * ration of those so , destroyed , 4 nc | , wJb ^ re v ^ Ui yau , fi ^ 4 tj bie ^ ertcu ^ .
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Mr . IVrig ^ GH jFuturt Punishment * § £
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/25/
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