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ind ' which-should not be drawn into precedent In The Guardian y No * $ 8 , the writer , representing the adv ^ jitoges of revealed religion , above those of na- jUIal , observes , €€ It is . owirig to 4 the God of truth s who came down from ,
heaven / and condescended to be him * self our Teacher ! " This is Neither sense nor orthodoxy : it is the language & { a modern Swedenborgian . Thus , likewise , Mr . Addison concludes a sublime paper on the Passion , with , this
extraordinary sentiment : —*** Sure , Nat ture , all Nature , is departing with her Creator ! " But £ his b y the way . These admirable writers also appear , in general , to adopt the popular ideas of future punishment . We shall only quote one passage from The Guardian , on the opposite side of the question .
In this work , Nor . 158 , the author , under the similitude of a dream , introduces his readers into the court of ffliadamanthus , one of the ' supposed heathen judges of men after death . Among £ he rest ^ a certain feiri al e was brought before him , who , to his first ¦
question , replied , that " she had done no hurt ; " but when it was asked , " what good she had been doing J " made no answer , and appeared in much confusion ; when immediately one of the attendants took her by the hand to convey her to Elysium , ^ rfd another with the intention of conveying
her to Erebus : but ¦ * ' Wiadamantkus observing an ingenuous modesty in her countenance and behaviour , bid them both let her loose , and set her ^ aside for a re-examinatim , when he wasr more a % leisure . " Here , the ingenious writer evidently stiggests , ' that there , are eha * - racters , which , after death , may be
considered as neither fit for heaven or hell ) and that such will assuredly meet frith a correspondent treatment ^ from * l 5 ^ eous ^ ncl im partial Jucjge . Mr » + Chapone , in her elegant Letters ( L . 3 . ) after describing the judgment day , &nd . th « sentence of the wicked , as tot . which- must , ** determine their fate
to all eternity , " instead of entering into Vu reasons of thta supposed irreversible ^ tence , presently ^ . dqs— " Let us turn | ^ this hotrW , this insupportable ** ew r Wlhat J a doctrine of the gosr-K ^^ horrid and insupportable' * even * ^ A *—that will scarcely bear a mo-™ tf * r ^ fleeMk—that cannot admit of WbSLtypr&Jfedfjipon the juvenile and *^ wmm < l'lor a single instant , with-^ W 8 ? of ^ nranpjinfl ; its faculjUea I
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\ 9 to $ J < , tWic ^ a jm * X -be the ^ rdigidn , of Jesus ! % c vvhom should wg teach k ^ wMg ^ awl - ^ jblwc to receive iristrucii ^ ni Xheni ,. ih , at are weaned from ihe rnUJc , an 4 dVawa jTrom the breasts / ' ¦ •
-.-Dr > Kippi& 9 tjhe late pious and learnedj editor of the Bzographia J ^ ritan ^ nca ^ to the life of Dahiel de Jfioe , written b y bl $ colleague , Dr . Tutvers , adefs a note , the substance of which , we shall here . ii \ - sert . * ' Many fine displays of natura l sentiment occur in Robinson Crusoe ' s
man-, Friday , one of which is particularly striking . In a conversation with his master concerning the I ) evil , being told that God is stronger than he ; he inquires , in his broken dialect , why , if this be thre case , the Almighty doth
not ^ destroy this evil being , and so put ari end to his wickednes 5 ? To thU Crusoe replied ,, that God wquld at last punish the Devil severely ; that he is reserved for judgment , and is to be cast into the bottomless p it , to dwell ' with everlasting fire . Friday , however , stifl dissatisfied , return $ upon his master—^ * Reserve at last ?'—and thinks it
unaccountable why such a malevolent being was not ' destroyed long ago /'—* You may as well ask me , ' replied Crusoe , € why God dqth .. not destroy you and me , when we do wicked things that offend him ; we are preserved tbrrepeiit , aiid be pardoned . ' At this , Friday appears highly pleased , 9 , n < J , goes ^ on to express ,, his satisfaction in being persuaded , t , hat both wicked
0 &u and devUaf are preserved to repent , a ^ d tbftt / God will flrially pardon ail /*' ., The - annotator adds , " Perhaps it would fee going too far to assert , that ; De Foe here intended covertly to insinuate , thatf there niigbt be a more meTcifuIxlisCiibtation of things in the final results o £ Divine Providence , than he
dirGd « at that time ,, openl y tt * exhibit /' Ifc tee presumed from this specimen , few ^ f , our refers ;^ ill 4 o ^^ * that the piow « . biqgrapher t ? yva » f ^ iily . justified in suggesting the ^ e ide as of £ > e Foe * s real sentiments ^ whieh * also , the > firrcsent
writer hath © very reason to believe , from a ^ long * JU appy , and personal acquaintance and intercqu ^ p yirkh ^ him , were ft * lly c ^ ngerjial wkh his ? ow | i ; * There are / however , mppy n ; ioder | profe ^ 8 ti | rs , w ^ ho ^ ppe ^ r ftfr * inferior , in
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1816, page 461, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2455/page/25/
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