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to a better condition , his lordship would have been so kind as to put me into the number of the merciful doctors * Truly , if I had any warrant for the possibility of their being less enemies to the
church of God than they have been , I would have been as merciful to them as any doctor of them all . As it is , I am more merciful than the Bishop . "
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having replied to the first , would be to attempt to demolish a superstructure which has no foua . elation to support it , but which must necessarily fall of itself . This will appear by taking a summary view of the nature of tie questions , and of the answers of Mr . W . to them , Q . 1 . Did God
ever design the happiness of all men ? Answered in the affirma . tive . Q . 52 , If God designed the happiness of all men , ic has he changed his mind and ceased to design their happiness ? "
Answered in the negative . Q . 3 « If God designed , &c . how is it that any of them will be eternally lost ? Is it because unforeseen difficulties will arise to frustrate his purpose , or because he hath not sufficient wisdom to find out means to accomplish his design ? An * swered by repeating the terms of
the question and affirming this to be impossible . Q . 4 . If God de * signed , &c . hath not God sufficient power to use the means which his infinite wisdom dictates , and which would be effectual for the recovery of all to purity and happiness ? Answered , by granting that it is impossible he should want power so to do .
Now is it possible that a reply can be made to the first of these questions without involving in it a reply to all the rest ? Your correspondent must himself admit
that if the first question is satisfactorily answered , the foundation on which the remaining three rest is completely gone * And considering the nature of the controversy it is equally impossible that the reply to the first question should pot include your correspondent ' s answer to it , for without it there was nothing * °
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768 Mr . Marsom , in reply to Mr . Wright , on Future Punishment .
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Mr . Marsom on Future Punishment , in Reply to Mr . Wright . Feb . 10 , 1814 . Sir , Your correspondent , Mr Wright , in reply to my letter , says , ( p . 622 , ) * You have noticed but one of the four questions I communicated , and none of my answers to them ; " and he adds , u that he might have supposed ,
( had it not been for an expression in the close of my letter ) that , after quoting the first , I had forgotten there were three others . " Mr . W ' s . answers to the questions are all of them either in the affirmative or the negative , with a repetition of the terms of the questions , no reply therefore can be made to the one without including
the other . Supposing then that Mr . W ' s . charge were true , that I have u noticed but one of the
questions , " ( which , however , as we shall see presently , is very far from being the truth , ) if I have satisfactorily replied to the first , and to the conclusion resulting from it , all the rest must
necessarily be included in that reply j because the most superficial reader must see , that they so entirely depend upon it as without it to have no meaning or force whatever , and to reply xo them , after
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 758, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/30/
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