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men ^ understandings are variously formed aan $ fashioned they do embrace several opinions , whereof sppie jn ^ sL Jbe erroneous , to say , iUat Goo will damn them for such of
ej&orSy tyrho ^ re lovers hira and lovers of . truth , is to rob man of his comfort , and God of his good * ness ; it is to make man desperate , ftrui God a tyrant . €€ But they
cteiiy truths testiBed by Gpd , and therefore si ^ all be da ipned . " Yes , i £ ti | ey kaeyr them to be thus testified by him , and yet would deny them ; that were to give God the lie , and questionless damnable .
But if you should deny a truth which God had testified , but only ta > ft man in the Indies ( as I said befo / e ) and this testification you bfld 3 « e , vcr heard of ± or at least imfl ^ o sufficient reasea tQ believe that Gpd had so testified , would
not you think it a hard case to be damned for ^ suc h a denial ? Yet c ^ naid ^ r , < sgi pray * a little ^ mo re at ^ enlively the d \ ffe rence be tween tli ^ irr ^ j and you will presently ackmwtiedgey the question between
thenduis & $ t ^ at any time , or in any 4 h * ng whether God says true or £ g ^ ffU ¥ es * ibHhet he say this or 'ita ^ ifi iil , supposing he says this , and says true , whether he means # as ^ 0 r n « k As for example ; be .
Xwe ^ n Lutherans , Ga ] ymists , and Zuinglians , it is agreed that Christ sprite ibese words , This is my iaify ; a |^ d that whatsoever he meant in ^ raying so is true : but what he ii ) eant and haw he is to he - \ uider » tood ^ that is the
ques-Jliftaj ^' . ^ iiSo that though some of them deny 4 : truth by Godintend-•« d ^ yet you can \ lrit h no reas on or justice accuse them of denying the truth of Gotd * & testimony , un . Jess you can plainly shew , t ^ a ( # od haifc xteptered , and tiat
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plainly and clearly , vhatwiB ^ life meaning in these words : - * % * W £ plainly ntod tfttirtjf ^ f or fcfe lb ^ speaks obscurely and ambiguously , and no where declares himself
plainly , sure he hath no reason to be much offended if he be mistaken . When therefor ^ J ^ ou can shew , that in this and all other of their controversies , God Bath
interposed his testimony oh on ^ side or other ? sp that either th 0 y do see it , arid will not ; of ' vretp it not for their own Toluntary atid avoidable fault , might and should see it , and < fc " ' not ; ' ¦ fet all 9 UC ^ i
errors be as damnable as you please to make them . In theraean while , if they suffer themselves neither to be betrayed into their errors , nor kept ill them by kny sin of their will ; if they da their best endeavour to free themselves
ft ^ m all errors , and yet fail m it through human frailty ; so w £ U am I persuaded of the g ^ ocktess of God , that if in me atone should meet a , confluence of all such Errors of all the Protestant ^ ih the world , that were thus qualified , I should not be so much afraid of
them all , as I should be to ask pardon for them . For , > yherefcs thiif which you affright Us with , of calling God * s veracity mi cf ^ eslion , is but a pahiek fear , afault that no man thus qualified is or c ^« be guilty of ; to ask ptifdpn
of simple and purely involuMflfry errors ^ i $ tacitly to imply , that God is angry with us for them * and that were to impute to him the strange tyranny oftc requiring ;
brick , uvhen he gives nd straw ; of expecting to gather , whei ^ e he fctirewed tiot ; £ fr tWt * f ikbeie he sowed not ;** <> f b ^ hgodflfett ^ d with as ^ tbr ^ not ^ oil % % b 0 t ^ 1 ie knibws ^ we ^ Cttilii (> l ^^ ^^ ' fa * & > ¦''
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/35/
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