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Dr . Estlin , allow rae to entreat you to review a passage or two in your letters on that gentleman ' s discourses . The first is ( p . 222 ) , IC The word chastisement is never
used of Gud tinder the character of a judge , or as acting in that capacity , but only as a Father , and acting as such / ' Does God then cease to be a Father , or to act as a Father , when he acts as a Judge ? What proof can you
produce of this ? Are the characters incompatible ? Is it not the Father of all who is the Supreme Judge of all ?—The second is , where you question whether there be any thing in scripture from which God ' s love to the wicked
can be fairly inferred ( p . 282 ) . Had you forgotten that Paul sa 5 * s , " But God coromendeth his love toward us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us . " Rom . v . 8 . The third is , where
you object to the definition , that justice is goodness exercised in the capacity of a judge ( ib . ) . Think again , what the justice of that Being , who is purely , perfectly and infinitely good can be , but a modification of goodness . — The
last is ( p . 283 ) , your denial that the power of God is ever exercised for the happiness of the wicked ; Bftt is not the gospel the power of God , is it not his power operating in connection with his love , for the salvation , of course
thfe happiness , of sinners ? I observe a paper ( p . 275 ) , which cohtains questions which you ought to answer , as they have a material bearing on some of your grounds erf argument . I remain , Very respectfully , . Yours , &c , R . WRIGHT .
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624 ¦ Mr . Mersom * * Reply to Dr . Estlitt , on Future Punishment .
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Sir , Oct . 12 , 18 H . Doctor Estlin charges me ( p . 352 ) with throwing out violent aspersions against him , and says , " he trusts that a careful perusal
of the whole of his work will clear him" from those aspersions . I believe I have not in any instance thrown out any aspersion against the doctor * If I have why did
he not point it out ? But this he has not done , unless he considers the following quotation from my letter as containing in it such . as . persion . u To prove that Kc \ a < ri $ means correction no evidence
whatever has been adduced . — To turn adjectives in one language , into substantives in another , appears to me to be a perversion and not a translation of the
words . ' * The Doctor introduces this quotation by saying , € i If I had only heard that a person who bad any knowledge of the Greek language , or of the structure of language in general , had made the following assertions 1 should not have credited the report . "
I must leave to your readers , who may know something of the structure of language , to discover what there is in those assertions that is so incredible . The
former of them , that no evidence had been adduced , by the Doctor , to prove that Kolasis means correction / ' contains in it either a plain matter of fact , or a palpable falsehood . If it be true that he has asserted that to be the
meaning of the word , and that he has shewn that to be its meaning , as he certainly has , * withouthaving adduced any evidence in its support , ' then the charge is jusU 1 ¦ ' ¦ (
* Discourses , p . S 3 , 78
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 624, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/36/
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