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tboste attributes , I shall , however , say a few words on the Doctor ' s inference from the attribute of mercy . * Merry , surely , ' says he ,
p «' -ll-3 , " is not displayed to those who suffer for evtr > or to those who are destroyed for ever : and yet we are told that God is good to alt ' and his 6 tender mercies
are over all his works . Mercy is represented as his darling attribute , and perhaps no assertion occurs so frequently in the scripture as * * his mercy endureth for
ever . " Much as the divine mercy is celebrated in the scriptures , it is only as exercised towards those who love God and serve him . c The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him . " " Shewing mercy , " says God in the
decafogue , to thousands of them that love me and that keep my com . mandments ?* but respecting the
wicked 1 Isaiah says , chap , xxvji . IX . " It is a pe pie of no understanding j therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them , and he that formed them will shew
u > em no iavoiir . Thecxxxvith Psalm is , throughout , a celebration of the mercy o { Gocl ; But is it there celebrated iis exercised to all mankind > Let us attend to a few of « i \ v pa * sa £ es . tc O give-thanks unto the Lord , "
say * the Psalmist , " for he is good , for his mercy end ureth for c-ver . To ham that smote Kgypt ill their first born . ; for his mercy qndureth forever . To him which wnoU' great kings ; for his mercy endurt th for ever : and slew fafor his
j ^ ous J ^ ing $ : mercy nuki-^ etji U > r vvcr : Sihun kittg of the Auwites : la ' ? hi ^ mercy ui ^ ureih
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for ever : and Og , king of BUShaafor his mercy enduretb fof > Ver /' Was there , in these in&tantt ?^ any exercise of mercy to Egypt in their
first born , or to the great and famous kings whose destruction is celebrated in this soh ^? 'Or were the judgments inflicted upon them for the benefit of the
sufferers ? The mercy here celebrated was not mercy to ihcm , but to the children of Israel . How unfounded then , is the inference from the mercy of God , ( which is never said , in relation to the wicked , to endure for ever , > to prove that they will be finally happiy !
In the present state , which is not a stale of retribution , but of discipline , " God is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works . ' * He is so in the
dispensations of his providence , and more especially in tfce revelation of his grace in the go ^ pet , the design of which is to leatf men to repentance ; tor " God is not willing that any should perish ; yet notwithstanding this * we read
of some , who , despising the ffches of his goodness , treasure lip to themselves vvrathj against tfie day <> f wrath , and revelation- of the righteous judgment of God . The present goodness and ntercy of God , ihertfore , will by rit ) nieans warrant the conclusion that " ail
his creatures must be finally hap . py . The " inference , so much ' ' % n lied upon from the attributes of God , as affording sufficient proof of the doctrine of the final restoration
of the wicked , would be equally strong to prove that they tvjll not be subject ; to any pum ^ hmeht at alL -This the Doctor "fv < \ t , for hf ' labours through the'Avhole of Ins work to WroVe this , although , in
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284 Mt \ Marsom ' s Strictures on Di \ Estiin ' s Discourses .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/28/
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