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their plain and obvious sense , I think is evident from the unqualified manner in which he asserts that * ' The wages of sin is death /' and that *• The end of those things is death : " but I am totally at a loss to conceive how such a punishment Can be corrective , or at all calculated to convey such instruction to the mind as must be necessary to lead it into habits of virtue and obedience .
I beg leave to subjoin the following questions , and am , Sir , Yours , &c . An Unlearned Christian . Is death a real and positive extinction of being ?
Should we have any certain ground to expect a future state of existence without a positive assurance of a resurrection ? Do the scriptures represent any part of the wicked as doomed to a second death ? Is there the same , or as good Teason to hope that they will be raised a ^ ain fro m this second death , as that they will be once raised to judgment ?
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Jf . More and Dr . liust believers in Restoration . Oct . 3 , 1814 . Siu , In the Review of the British
PulpitEloquence , ^ you rlast Number , [ IX . 560 . ] your correspondent , in the life of More , mentions him as well as Dr . Rust , as favouring the belief of the universal
restoration . As an anxious enquirer jnto the truth 1 of that highly important doctrine , I cannot help wishing that he had been more explicit , and had stated in which of the writings of those two eminent men their opinions upon that most in-
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teresting question are to be met with . Should the before-mentioned , or any other of your correspondents think this inquiry entitled to their attention , their answer will oblige Your constant reader , IGNOTA .
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An Argive God . Sir , It has , 1 think , been often boasted by the apologists of Christianity , that in no other system of religion was meekness or humility a virtue * But Dr . Clarke has stated a fact which overthrows this pretension . He says of Argos ( Travels . 4 to . Pt ; . II . § ii . ch . xvi . )>— " It Athens ) by arts , by military talents and by fcostly s o * lemnities , became c one * of the Eyes of Greece ;* there was in
the humanity of Argos , and in the good feeling frequently displayed by its inhabitants , a distinction which comes nearer to the heart . Something characteristic of the people may be observed even in a name given to one of
their divinities ; forthey worshipped a God of meekness . "—He adds , in a note r " The Argives gave to one of their gods the name M . su \ i % iov A / o £ , of the meek God or mild Jupiter . Vid . Pausan . in Con c . 20 . p « 154 . " EPISCOPUS .
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Remarks on the " Defence of Mr . Cappcm "
Sir , Being in the habit of musing on provident natural order , I feel some interest in the opinions of ingenuous friends of rational sentinrrent thereon : and though al-
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H . More and Dr . Rust believers in Restoration . 677
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 677, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/17/
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