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    fluently requested his opinion on parmitar cases , that he sqduld-always titekt . hi ^ penitents with / milcf ness , and e ^ rmtafeeHhen * Co confide in ' the mercy W llieaTxbreatb * : To UWwiio

    coVifi ^ sfed reUtises into situ the only reiri ^ cry ii c OT § h t to give them , t 6 relieve iheif trtUery , should be to advise theifi •^ fieneVc i' they fell into the same fault to ~ crmfess it anew , svith a firm reliance or ) the mercv and forgiveness of their heavenly Fatner , not doubting but bv

    3 b , doing they would ultimately reform ; which proved to be the fact : by degrees they became exemplary in their lives ajVn manners . ' * For xriv own part I consider the

    ct 5 r \ dnct of this monk highly calculated tjtf leisure the salvation . of souls . Xo i % ir" ( jfdd is good , twit to love him is stiff bettjbr ; and what means can more effectually contribute to this end , than ibf ' taipress men with the clearest idea

    possible of his unbounded mercy- * - Goodness is the genuine object of l $ ve : the conceptions which we form of the infinite *» ercy of God raises in our minds the most livel y and sensible iaiqgej of his infinite goodness . I have before shewn that fear and love are not

    i n compatible with each other ; that ftQtn servjcle fear we may rise to filial lovf * . J [ have also proposed the method to tve pfirsued in conducting the sinner from one to the other , adhering in this method to a proper and literal explication of the sentence , " Timor Dei

    initmm ' dilectionh eju $ > " comprehending in it even servile ilread . But enough of missions . May heaven preserve you xwany years .

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    Ah Answer to the Question , TV hat is Blasphemy ? [ This paper has been in print before : we copy it from a printed shecfc communicated by a Correspondent . Ed . ] ^ TX ) speak blasphemously , as far as I JL am able to understand that

    expression , can only signify , to speak dijshonourablv of God ; to speak in derogaliou ot- his Divine nature and attributes * Now , since both reason ojkI revelation teach u ^ that the only true God i ** immutable , i&coRPQr rml , and QMviFRjssENT , $ hajuld

    any dootriur , on the contrary , a ^ seft tha ^ th ^ Divine nature hath i * n 4 er gope « a cj » ange , and ? aasumed a corj > of 4 ? sal fawn ^ which , nxust be locai , JL thiok there cam be no- doubt but : ft 4 ich

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    doctrine nvould be hi ^ hW injurious to t fiost Vs&ttteA attrif ^ tfepas " fT ^ 11 ^ moh perriicfoUs in ^ s ; c ^ i ^ Huefi $ | s t 6 the Salutary purp < Jit : )» f if trt \ e ' it& < gion . For tli is reason , whe ^ Vft ^ j ^ raelites , at Mount FIorebV ^ ea ^? r ? o » to worship the true God , erected the golden calf as a fit emblem of tHe

    object of their religious adoratjon , '' it Will not I presume be denied , tfy ^ t they were guilty of the most blasphemous idolatry ' ; and , when exulting in the restoration of that mode of religious worship , in behalf of which tliey had acquired an habitual prejudice in the land of Eavpt , they loudly i > roclaimctl

    that four-footed image to be a just representation of Che Almighty Being whose miraculous interposition had f-0 lately delivered them from . their Egyptian bondage ; whether > vejudge

    their conduct by the dictates of reason , or t > y the law of Moses , they vverp most certairijy giijlty ^ of speaking blasphemously against God . Let . us suppose then , for a moment , tjbat the means

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1816, page 708, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2459/page/16/