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lies , to whose interests the King ' s devotion was sufficiently apparent . Bat what display of religious tolerance or enlightened civil policy could be expected from one , surrounded , during his exile , by emigrant noblesse , martyrs to the ancient Regime , and a
crowd of priests , whom nothing less than the grossest form of popery could satisfy ? With too much truth was it observed that , in twenty years , the Bourbons had forgotten nothing and had learnecj nothing . Will France never deserve a better order of things than such a paternal government ?
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will enable them to judge of the grounds on which the writer thinks " an offi . cial compendium of doctrines , " in other words , a creed , necessary for the preservation of methodisrn . They are , Original Sin , Imputed Righteousness ,
Justification , Faith , and Regeneration . After stating , p . 69 , that " Original Sin , implying the actual propagation of a nature morally corrupt and positively evil , comprehending complete alienation from God , a prevailing bias and propensity to sin , a direct enmity to the nature of holiness , and an
inward association with the powers of darkness , if not an actual participation in a diabolical nature" is contended for as a first principle by the Methodists , he adds
u But although this doctrine is generally received in the Methodist connexion , yet it is important to know that this is not universally the case . There are , both among preachers and people , those who cannot reconcile the popular opinions respecting * this point , to their notions , either of the wisdom , the g oodness , the justice , or
the truth of God . For denying the necessity of the continuance of a corrupt nature , transmitted through the ordinary course of generation , as a foundation of redemption , they contend that this redemption should operate to the extirpation of the principle of evil from our nature in its initial state ,
and thereby prove its claim to the glorious title it sustains , and exhibit in infants the full accomplishment of the important objects it is intended to attain . And under these impressions , the opposers of the doctrine as above delineated say , it is incompatible with the divine wisdom , to permit the actual propagation of sin \ for , say they ,
if God really wills the salvation of all men , and if holiness he essential to that salvation , can the propagation of a nature positively and actually unholy in the extreme , have any tendency to promote that glorious eud . Certainly not . On the contrary , it would be a radical , and in most cases , an effectual opponent to the hopes of salvation . " P . 70 .
The author states in the following pages , the reasoning of his breth ren who reject the doctrine of Origin ^ Sin , assert its inconsistency with the goodness and truth of God , and inaiutain that neither sin nor holiness ar «
susceptible of propagation . But thoug h the arguments , many of which arc strong and pointed , are given as the language of others , he himself seems to take the heterodox side on this subject He says , " Am our object » pot t * fotfer prfj «"
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$ 8 ^ Review . —Inquiry into the Methodist Sfocieties .
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A rt . III . —A Candid and Impartial Inquiry into the Present State of the Methodist Societies in Ireland : wherein several important points relative to their doctrines and discipline are discussed . By a Member of the Society , 8 vo . pp . . 512 . Belfast , printed - > sold by Commins , Lincoln ' s Inn , London , 1814 . fTTlHIS work contains much import-JL ant information respecting the state of opinions on some of the most leading points in theology amopg the Methodists in Ireland . The author regards as an evil , the want of unifor-Hiity in religious doctrine , which his statements prove to exist , and to shew itself publicly , among the ministers of his denomination , as well as
among the people . The object of his book appears to be , to stir up his brethren to provide a remedy for this imagined evil , by forming " an official compendium" of the doctrines of the Methodists , " compiled from the voluminous writings wherein they now lie scattered , and bearing the stamp of legitimate authority . " P . " 348 * That among so numerous a body of Christians as the Methodists now are , si diversity of opinion on a variety of subjects should exist , might naturally be expected ; but we were not aware that iuquiry had extended itself so far , or that what is called heterodox y existed to such a degree , as this writer ahews to be the case among the societies in Ireland : not a few of his pages are filled with the proofs of this supposed departure from the truth , and the discussion of the controverted
, points . A statement of the subjects , mn which the Methodists in Ireland are j ^ ivided ni their opinions will not be wmntfcrwing ; t * our readers , and it
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/34/
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