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p , ^ t « i $ r ifct ^ e « BW $ rafiee , it « ai ^ onlyl ^ done by animadverting ' on the d elinqtients in such * ,. 'imf \ ? s niflUfct , afict their temporal interests . The utmost stretch of candour that I can red ion to
exert , th ^ most sac attent the rule of doing to others as I would be 4 one unto , dfoes not allow me to put those interests in competition with the temporal and eternal welfare of hundreds and thousands of inconsiderate but innocent persons , thai may be fatally affected by the writings in
question Jt is hardly possible that the Inquirer and the Reviewer of his / ' Fo ^ ir Letters ' should see the case of Ely mas , and the application of it to his aitfu .
meat , in the same light . To my feeble and very possibly erring judgment the application seems legitimate ; nord ^ es the miracle , although it may take the case out of the common rule , vitiate that legitimacy . Doubtless " the
Sovereign Disposer- may justly punish any offender in any manner that he pleases . He can read the heart , can adjust the suffering to the sin , and can foresee and overrule remote consequences . " But the Reviewer will hardly
contend that , before he visits offence with punishment , the civil magistrate must be endowed with any thing like $ k knowledge . t It is his business , by enforcing the sanctions of the laws , to take damni
care ne quid respublica vapiat , and that no innocent person suffer from the crimes of the jpilty . If this position leads to conclusions in fevopir of peiieotftioii > wjth w ^ h Bishop Bonner would have been satisfied , 1 cm ^< nj 0 ;| W flfa j ^ e fa £ 'fi . hwpforrt , J ^ lMto ^ wi ^ m ^ . twaperaraent of the rausiml scfie' there
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tJW ^ PUt * £ t ^ tw ^ th& r ^ t Christian philpswher , wl » o -eompapes the spirit of Uie ^ JUivme laws witK that of the best and ^ wis ^ t human re ^ ilaJ tions . The , nearer the latter ate nwde ^ to approach to the former , certainly the better , but there must be ahvajrs an ^ measur ^ l ^ a ^ taiice . The former ore graciously vouchsafed to many in order to m ^ ke hwk &Aat he should be i
the latter , in order to be use&l , orr even practicable , mu ^ t consider hhn . aahe is . / the civil ma ^ tra ^ e , therefore ^ has duties to fulfil ^ and powers to * exercise : and it is fitti » g he shouldt
remember that , if in the exercise of those ppwers heis unmindful of justice and mercy , he will himself be tried at the bar of eternal aad unerring ^ justice : and it may be well for him not to forget thftt circumstancesimay
change , w& that he may himself be * - cpme ^ amenable to a new hucoan juris diction which , in its turn , m& be ? accotmtable for Hs proceedings ^ only to heaven . Wldle the powder laaia , the duties are i ^ mper ^ tive , aod the right indisputable . To contend ^ as the Reviewer contends , that this fKwition " leaves no standard of right but might / ' is to use words in a very loose and unphilosophical-Bense ; and to say that it takes " away all moral authority , " is to forget the reverence which it pays to the
authority of God . Moreover , the Reviewer affirms , that the In ^ uirer ^ whom ke supposes to adopt th | % po ^ ifion , M $ p-6 ear& ^ in fact , in f ^ 4 ^^\ i 4 t lS ^ b lolinbroke , Hume and ^ ribbon ^ . V $ b
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/19/
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