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    reply *•• The man that could suppose the contrary must be utterly ignorant of the nature of the controversy , and must be equally

    blind to > the nature and tendency of my observations . But is it true , as your correspondent asserts , that I have no . ticed only one of the questions .

    and none of his answers f Certainly not . But because I have not distinctly nunrbered them , which , from their connection with , and dependence on the first question ?; —was rendered unnecessary , anA because he ^ did not see the

    figures ^ 3 , 4 he either could not , or would not , discover that I bad noticed them at all . I notm the answer of your correspondent to the first question , when I say that it will scarcely admit of a direct answer but 4 t in the af «

    firmatite / ' the very words of his answer , but because I did not mark them with reversed commas , or say they were his answers , he seems not to have been aware

    that they were so . If he will look into p . 477 , he will see that I quote the terms of the second question , and his answer to it , and make some observations upon them . My words arc , " And though their vices should

    terminate in their utter ruin , it vvili not follow : that God did not de-& $ gn tfair huppinebs , or that he hosaliered his design ^ or changed humind ; he i $ -of one mind and nokecan turn < him" See . Q . 2 , ambM-r : Ws . answer . The third

    questiqp , with ihe answer respecting unforeseen difficulties arising and frustrating God ' s design , I have stated and observed largely upon in the last paragraph of the * wn < i page . The fourth question , with the answer , respecting the

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    power of God to recover men to purity and happiness , I notice in the next page , where I observe , " What must we think of a Being

    designing the happiness of all men , and who , possessing infinite "wisdom and almighty power is able , at all times , and at any time , ( if the happiness of rational

    beings depends on the exercise of his wisdom and the exertion of his power ) to accomplish his design , notonly defers the accomplishment of it throughout the whole of the present state of probation , of which

    almost 6000 years have already elapsed , but will still defer the accomplishment of it , and subject the very persons whom he designs to be happy , to

    inconceivable misery throughout incalculable ages in the future state . " Now it is impossible in the nature of things that Mr . W . should have made any attempt to reply to any of my observations on these

    three last questions and answers , because he positively denies the very existence of any such observations , and who woukl undertake to answer a nonentity I By his own admission then my observations remain unnoticed and

    unrefuted , I have therefore nothing to defend , Mr . W . quotes me as saying , p , 621 , u Questions may be put so general in their nature , and in such a form as easily t < s > mislead

    the unwary , and betray them into concessions which would support the claims of any hypothesis / What then ? he adds , have you shewn the questions I communicated to

    be of this kind ? " I answer , the first I think I have . " What , " he asks , «* does your making this observation prove , but that you do not like the questions , that

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    Mr . MarsoMf in reply to Mr- Wright 9 on Future Vunishment . 759

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 759, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/31/