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ofyesus , 4 C Ye are of more value than many sparrows . ' * God es * teemed the preservation of the Ninevites of much more consequen . ce than the preservation of Jonah ' s gourd
In what part of scripture is fu-Uire punishment so contrasted with immortality , as to make the forn > er an endless negation of the letter ? That ii ) s so contrasted to
^ ou seem granted ; but to establish this point by scriptural proof you will find a very different thing . You have said ** the wages of sin is death , ETERNAL DEATH V the apOSlle
satisfied himself with saying simply death , the phrase ypu have lised is unscriptural , of course the phrases ., eternal life , and eternal death , are no where placed in contrast by the sacred writers . The burden of proving lies with
ypu ; if your proofs be insufficient ., iJbe doctrine of limited punishment follows of course . I remain , with i » uck ^ Christi an respect , Yours , &c . R . WRIGHT .
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M ? . Marsom s Strictures on Dr . jEstlins Discourses on Universal Restitution .
;* High Holborn , Feb . 2 , 1814 . Sir , Some Observations on Dr .
EstlMi ' s Discourses on Universal Restitution having been introduced into your Repository ( Vol . IX , p . 21 ) , in a correspondence between Doctors Toulmin « nd Estlin , in which rny name occurs tvith some allusion to the manner
in which my arguments , in a work entituled , ** The Universal Restoration of Mankind Examined , & < x are treated by Doctor EbU
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lin in the above jnention ^ d ^^ orfeir I beg to jj ubmit to you ^ for in * sertion in your valuable Miscel - iany , tlre following remarks on thoae Discourses .
Ait ^ r an attenti ve perusal the Discourses I cannot help consi * during the arguments tb ^ rrein urged in support of the Doctor ' s views as very inconclusive ; at least they have not produced any conviction in my mind . The Doctor , na
doubt , will attribute this to invin * cibie prejudice ; for in p . l 66 i h& says ,- * To a mind sealed by pre » r judice arguments can gaui noa ^ i ' mission . To a mind which i&aJc ^ cessible to arguments , those wpch < have already been adduced are ? more than sufficient . )? lh « De > 0 ^
tor , it seems , is so felly £ > erst * ad ^ cl * of the clearness and itresistifol energy of h is reason in g that whe ^ ref it is ineffectual , the reason must * necessarily be , that the mind is s <* sealed up by prejudice as to render * it inaccessible to those argumen ts ^ which would otherwise have beew more than sufficient for that pur& pose . This , surel y ^ is assuming a great deal too much , and * very far from being consistent whb that respect and candxmr which *? atfe due to the judgment and uncteri standing of those who after tb ^ most serious and impartial eia . mination are under the riecessity of differing from us # t In page 135 , the doctor cites the following observation from my work , p . 5 , 6 . " Mr . Marsom says ^ It may be proper to cvbs ^ rwp | 1 st , That the doctrine of Unfc
versa ! Salvation is no *¦ where € ixi pressly taught in the holy scri ptures . If God then has no wharfe promised a univeral restoration of mankind , there can be « q abfca * lutc substantial ground to affirm
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1 ^ 9 Mr * Ma * $ mn ? s Strictureson Dn EetUn ' s + BistifursU .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/28/
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