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the actions of man , are the necessary result of his nature and circumstances , he has the consolation of a less tremendous responsibility , but then it is in contradiction to all the general systems of religion .
AN INQUIRER . P . S . I will take the liberty of adding a few remarks upon Or : Paley ' s Scheme of Chance . He says that there may be chance in the midst of design ; two men travelling by design between London and York , meet by accident , or chance , on the roadi Jlere is chance in the midst of design . This principle must be admitted to Its full extent , when human design only is contemplated . Thus the
consequences of nine tenths of the actions of men are consequences of chance . No man by design injures his circumstances , few by design injure their health , thus every man ' s death nearly , is by chance , very few men when they marry design children , this is not their motive or design , therefore , every man ' s birth is by chance . There is
according to this scheme , ver y little that affects the being or happiness of Sensible beings the effect of design . And this is perfectly agreeable to my second scheme of the Divine government , which is the only doctrine consistent with the philosophical free agency of man , and which , as it excludes foreknowledge of effect from the Deity completely as to whatever relates to man in this world , excludes also effective design , God wills that if men are born , they should possess a definite organization , and be subject
to certain general circumstances , and there the design of the Deity stops . Their future , not their present destination , depends entirely on his will , and if there be either justice or goodness in it , must be as various as the
variety of human character . This is Dt . Paley * s doctrine of chance , and seems to be agreeable to appearances , and the common apprehensions of mankind . Every middle scheme is a system of confusion and contradiction , or of
constant miracle , so that there appears ta be no alternative between Paley ' s Chance , and Hobbes ' s Necessity . This is tke full extent of my assertion , I meddle not with the question as to "which scheme is the true one .
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Newingtvn Green , blR , September lo / JL isifi OFFER a few remarks on a « L I munication in your last Number ' ( p . 448 ) , respecting the Greek Article * but without the smallest intention of stepping in between your Corres pond ent and Dr . Charles Lloyd . 1 have not the least doubt that a gentleman
of the Doctor ' s ^ earning can prove to demonstration that the Deity of Christ is not to be inferred by any right appU . cation of the Article to passages in the New Testament j" and shall begladto see such prooLin the Monthly Repository or in a separate publication .
Your respectable Correspondent will not , I trust , be offended with my remarks on some parts of his letter . His object seems to be useful knowledge , and therefore I presume that my notice of his communication will be as well
received as it is well intended . " The Article ( your Correspondent remarks ) is only an index . " I thought so when I wrote the following sentence in Reason tke Arbiter of Language : " This and that are merely two indexes or pointers , such as we often see on way-posts or
buildings to direct the eye to some object , and \ vhich are properly printed as a hand 9 because they supply its place . So that or this supplies the place of a hand , or rather of a , finger , and was originally nothing but its name . " Such was my opinion at that time :. whether I
invented or borrowed it I cannot now ascertain ; but I recollect well that even then the nature and origin of the parts of speech had cost me much hard thinking and tiresome searching . But on further inquiry ( and , I trust , clearer , deeper reflection ) , I was compelled
( somewhat reluctantly , for I had published an opinion } , by what I deemed convincing evidence , to abandon the idea of index , and proclaim the fallibility of my understanding . The final
decision of my erring judgment is expressed very fully in Philosophic Etymology . It your Correspondent will favour my Work with a perusal , be will find that my opinion coincides with that of Aristotle and that of Dr .
Middleton at the same time . In representing the Greek as having no resemblance to the English Article , indeed I suspect the Doctor knew not what he said nor whereof he affirmed . He was right in saying that the ^ Gree * Article is the pronoun relative o ; **
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$ 2 fc Mr . Gilchrist on the Greek Article . —Questions on
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 528, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/28/
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