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injury to themselves , though very littje , £ f any thing s in point of eijioTumenL but rather in rank duo character . Against this it
niay be urged , that this will give them too rnuch po \ rer , by filling places of profit and trust . But this by no means follows ; beno
cause ^ one could hold an office without being appointed to it ; and , if chosen by his fellow citizens into a corporation ( which ,
Considering the difference in nuttu hers , would not often happen ) , whether any evii would result from this , let those judge who are best acquainted with the state t > f many corporations . Such being the opinions and principles that belong to the general character of Protestant
Dissenters , they claim a right to be lielieved * , though if facts or solid arguments can be produced to the contrary , let them ha ^ e their full force ;— but to suppose cases that do not exist , and draw unfavourable conclusions from them , is illiberal and unjust .
It now rests with the people of England to judge whether the Protestant Dissenters deserve to be the objects of their suspicion ; and whether it is not for their mutual interest to live in peace and harmony with each other .
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The Joy of the Righteous Increased by the filial Restoration of the Wicked . Sir ,
The descendants of Adam are so far social beings , they are connected together by so many ties andSympathies , that a inan mu ^ t tie" ' extremeiy . thoughtless , ox greatly debr ^ vefl , PefQre ; he can
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creatures with perfect indiffereiiceir much more before he can cob * template the utter destruction , or endless torment , of any of them
with complacency . In proportion as he becomes deeply considerate , and truly good , their sufferings will excite in him painful enao * tionsj and their happiness increase his iov .
as y If in the present state , in which love to mankind is diminished * and its operation interrupted , by so many prejudices , local interests-, and false notions ; if while the
best of men are subject to so many mistakes and weaknesses , and conscious of feelings which are inconsistent with pure benevolence * no good man can remain
unaffected with the distresses of others , nor feel uninterested in their happiness ; what must be the case in a future life , when the righteous ^ freed from the infirmities which
now encompass them , shall waHc in the effulgence of heavenly fight * continually breathe Ihe atmosphere of perfect love , and lose sight of every merely local interest in the pursuit of the greatest universal
good , or rathtr find every md i * vidual interest secured in the hap- * piness of the whole rational creation ?—Surely in that blessed an # happy state , when the Christian * who is now but an infant in be *
nevolence , shall have attained his full stature , when the embryo of goodness shall have unfolded atid ripened to maturity , he must feel a far deeper interest in the welfare of his fellow creatures , their mi . series must affect him more
tenderly , should he know them to continue cmser&ble * ihan in this life . Even now , the trul y * good mau coiiitl not without pain see the greatt » t criminal tort wed to
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< %% 4 On the Restoration of the Wicked .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/18/
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