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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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submit to ybur consideration . I have , probably , failed in some places to comprehend fully the author ' s meaning . These are , however , inconsiderable , and beside the author ' s principal design , which he appears to me to
have accomplished by a course of arguments quite unexceptionable , so that he has engaged my almost unqualified assent . I especially commend him far so clearly and candidly , nor less solidl y * demonstrating the necessity of repentance and good works ,
and shewing how the law of faith has not repealed , though it has mitigated the law of works . 1 cannot approve their divinity who teach , that , even before any act of repentance , we are justified in the sight of God , through the faith by which we apply to
ourselves the merits of Christ . Thoughtless men ,-when full of this persuasion , even in the midst of their wickedness , readily account themselves justified and saved , if they appear to have faith , however wavering . Careless
teachers also are apt to encourage this rash confidence , not scrupling to pronounce , without any hesitation , the salvation of the profane and vicious , if , in their last moments , they have only professed a firm reliance on the merits of Christ .
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Mr . Brande ' s Estimate of Dr . Priestley s Chemical Discoveries . [ In volume I . 216—219 and 32 $ — S 34 > we inserted Mons « Cuvier ' s " Eulogy on Dr . Priestley , pronounced in the French National
Institute . The reader will there see in what estimation Dr . Priestley is held amongst foreign philosophers . We have now the satisfaction of adding to that tribute to his memory , another by one of the first English chemists of the present day . It is the more valuable , as it is in the form of
historical and philosophical criticism . We extract it from " A Dissertation , exhibiting a General View ^ of the Progress of Chemical Philosophy , from the Early Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century . By William Thomstti Brande , Secretary of the Royal Society of London , Fellow of
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I add a recent example in this city which ought not to be passed over . Last summer , a maidservant , that she might rob her master ' s house , set it on fire in the night . She was
capitally convicted , and , at her execution , largely , and in very strong language , professed her failh in the merits of Christy to the clergyman who attended her . He not only gave the criminal the most undoubted
assurance of salvation , but also in his sermon , an the following day , warmly commended her faitli to the congregation . He , indeed , did not scruple to declare , that , the public shame only excepted , he could wish so to end his
life . Many applauded , though some ( not only Remonstrants , but also Contra-Remonstrants ) , could not refrain from expressing their indignation against the encomium of such an en comiast .
At length I must conclude . With your usual kindness you will pardon my prolixity . Farewell , my most worthy and ever respected friend . Yours , affectionately , P . a LIMBORCH .
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the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution of Great Britain , and Professor of Chemistry and Materia M ' edica to the Society of Apothecaries in the City of London / 1 Prefixed to Vol .
III . of Supplement to Encyclopaedia Britannica . 4 to . Pp . 48—61 . Itwill be borne in mind by the reader , that Mr . Brande professes to ascertain Dr . Priestley ' s merits in only one branch of philosoph y . Ed . ]
OF the various discoveries , which it is the object of this Dissertation to unfold , none hgive been more important in their consequences than those relating to the composition of
atmospheric air , a subject which the ancients seem not to have thought upon , since th&y regarded it as an element or ultimate principle of matter . In this , an in most other branches
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Mr . Brande s Estimate of Dr . Priestley ' s Chemical Discoveries * 675
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 675, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/11/
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