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facts , oil temporary relations are justly ascribable to the direct p leasure and determination oT Deity : " Indeed !—Well , what cairte said to this ? 1 can say
nothing to it . However , as the instances are not brought forward , nor specified * we will presume to neglect them , and pass on as though there was no such said object in the way . But , " farther , they ( these instances ) supply a
strong presumptive argument that in other cases where the good is not perceived , the same great truth of its final preponderance , and that it could not have been equally attained by any other means , will one day be self-evident ! " Be it so ; all the better : we are not
disputing the preponderance of good , nor professedly striving to decide on divine positive purpose , or the fitness of the instituted means furnished to the furthering unalloyed
blessedness . No , we are , as be * fore said , Simply seeking evidence of divine direct pleasure , purpose and hand , in some irregular , disastrous cases ; - —cases to which
nothing here said applies , that N . D . can perceive . I will now , Sir , trouble Qccasi 6 nal Correspondent no further ; his closing reflections do not demand remarking on , how
interestihg soever they may be in religious cbnsciovistiess . if S ^ can ^ ffford room , Mr . Editor , I will subjoin a few con * » i ( fefations somewhat in character of our subject . ' First ; It is sure , at least ^ jupposable , that purpose , intention . &c . is not essential to
tvery fact every end or result of power . Principle ; — divint , provident , causation princi p le , ( it may be ) is e ^ sent ^ al id every movepaent jih d
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result : but is purpose , design , intention ^ pleasure and will , strictly necessary , —absolutely requisite to every event , all movement and operation i Here , I hesitate , — am not clear ; rather think
otherwise . Certainly there is move-, ment void of any appearance of mind , purpose , device or will . Evil , adverse events in common
do not appear to me to be objects of device . Unpleasant bearings daily take place that indicate nothing of mind ; no intentional causation . And , indeed , I take incomplete product to be gpod evidence that Deity was not directly concerned therein : and that the
instrumentality employed was circumstantially feeble , or incidentally interrupted in operation . And sure it is more consonant to our feelings and common sense of
things , to suppose that sucli case was not object of provident scheme but side effect of instituted ope _ rant principle ; rather than affirm that God actually appointed it as means of general good .
I hope , Sir , that some of your correspondents will take up tfiis subjeqt to some good purpose * We certainly do jnot all yet perceive that every possible effect , all incidents whatever , must
necessarily be appointed event ,- — fact positively designed and ordered of God . Let it be made plain that all movement in nature , all change and action , all effect or events whatever cannot but be objects of desigru Your ' s respectfully , N . D .
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Chinese Translation of Epistle to Romans .
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Chinese Translation of Epistle to Romans . 679
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 679, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/19/
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