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the object of hfc abhoirefide , and liot ** his beloved Son in Whom be was well pleased ? " Is the & 11 powerful * good , and omniscient God , liable to change hh mind ? Mas the dfeath of -Festts Christ
dftused him to alter the plan of his moral government ? Can we Us creatiires , Or can any cteatures ,
hhve any other ideas of justice than that it is doing impartial rtghttoall , and wrong and injury 16 hone ?
Is it jtisticeto puhish the innocent stnd to jrardori the guilty ? li it jtfstice to puhish thfe iiinofcent ifiktefcd ¦ df" the guilty ? Is it the ^ rs tlo in &f God to te ^ aoh this doc itftffe , dhd is it essential to our s&lvation to believe it ? Is the
<| rosfc of Christ atiy thing better toah an accursed tree , the detested instrument 6 ( the murder of an inpadent person , a true friend of mankind ? Is not atonement ,
reconcilia tion ; do not all men who are reconciled to God by Jesus Chi'istreceive the atonement ? Are ixqi kl \ persons who repent of their sins , and fofrsake them , who
reguTpite th W fir lh > es by the precepts ^^ eW ^ t |) le of Jesus Chris t , who tK ^ sfrrdVe that they are his dis-^ f ^ 4 s , labd tTiat they believe that fie is tHie Christ , the Son of
tijE ^ . itiNo God , as he is de-^ tifeid to be with power 6 y his ^ atuTjr ^ ct ion from the dead , scriptural believers in the atonement ? 3 * d . What is Original Sin ?
Is . the sin of Adam , so the sin of atl his descendants without exception , jas tp consign them over , to eternal punishment , by fire , in hell ? If this is true , was
not the man Jesus one of his de-SCenilittitsT If the , Messiah toolv ^ ppix "iiinjL our nature , how could he escape the accidents of tbat
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nature ? If the sin of A ^ fupn ww $ not only imputed to all his po % terity , but also conveyed in th $ form of radical and hereditary depravity to them all , so that infants as soon as they are born
deserve God's wrath ( tke wrath of a just God ) and eternal datojiatJonl Is not the propagation of human , beings one of the worst of crimes ?!! If this view of the subject J ^ e just , with what propriety can we believe in the salvation o ( infants
who die before they are capable of hearing , understanding , or believing the gospel ? If all men are so originally frnd , radically depraved , and if it is their nature to sin , and only , and ;
always to sin , is it consistent tp exhort them to repent ^ to obey the gospel , and to practise virtue ?
If it is the nature of all men to love vice , and to practice it , it their consciences and understandings are so completely callous and blind that they cannot ap ^ preciate good , nor avoid evil , how
can such beings be at all responsible for their moral actions ? It is the nature of a tiger to thi rst for blood ; it is the nature of a scorpion to sting his adversary to death ; and , if they could reason would they not say , We do but follow our nature , we are
therefore not transgressors — we rereceived our existence on these conditions ; God hath made us and not we ourselves j you may presume * that we are sinners by nature * but we deny that we are
sinners by practice . But , finally , If as an effect of Original sin , the reason , the common sense of all maukind is as depriaved as their hecirts are full of iniquity ; whoever may aU tempt to Answer these queries
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Theological Queries ; £ § $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/43/
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