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marges " a necessity of some measures being taken which shall draw
the attention of the people in general - to the pure doctrines of Christianity . " He \ vf > uld have " the proposed society" send out < c two or three missionaries , in the
course of the summer , the proper time for taking the field , ** to u traverse as much of the kingdom as they are able , preaching both on the Sundays and other days , wherever and whenever they can
collect a number of auditors ; at the same time dispersing those tracts with which they may be furnished , calculated to forward the object of their preaching . " fi
He supposes that numbers will come and inquire what the new doctrine is , delivered under such novel circumstances , who would never give themselves any concern with the same doctrine delivered
in a regular way / ' and adds , ** what is wanting but some pious , zealous men , who will voluntarily offer themselves to the service . " 1 am ignorant who these three
writers were . During the mortality of ' twenty years , some , if not all of them , may have been removed to the land qf ' si / ence , where there i % no work nor wisdom . Yet I am
rather wrlling to suppose that they have lived to see their ideas realized beyonfd their expectations , and to promote by tlu-ir exertions , the establishment and success ofr the Unitarian Fund . 1 GNOTUS .
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your Repository , concerning the final destination of the degenerate part of mankind , I beg leave to state some considerations , which , in my apprehension , carry great weight , in favour of their ultimate attainment to life and felicity .
It is , I helieve , generally admitted , that there is on the whole , an intimate connection between moral and natural evil ; between moral imperfection , or moral turpitude , and the discipline of mortality ; nor will it be denied , that siny when it is finishtdj bringeth forth death . There is also the same indissoluble connection between righteousness , and the preservation , comfort and enjoyment
of life ; the great triumph of virtue consisting in overcoming the powers of sin and death , and establishing life and felicity , uninterrupted and unimpaired , by the contrary evils . If it be admitted that death is no other than the
cessation of sentient being , and life its continuance , it will appear agreeable to experience and reason to conclude , that as sin is that course of conduct which is repugnant to the ends of life , so
it necessarily tends to its dissolution ; and as righteousness is that conduct which by promoting a continued growth in moral excellence , is more and more
conducive to those ends , so it should tend not only to preserve , but to increase the energy arid excellence of the vital powers ; should produce glory ^ honour and
immortality . In fact , however , the characters of mankind universally being of a mixed nature , a continuid struggle , as it were , between the tendencies to moral good and evil , between the powers of life am ) i ) f death ; * hcir ciestinn .,
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Considerations in favour of Universal Restoration * 409
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Considerations in favour of Universal Restoration . April 2 & > IS 14 . Sin ,
In ..- . reference to the great cjues-Uon now umler consideration in
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VOL . IX , 3 G
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/25/
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