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jection appears to contain a self-evident truth , stiU we have no reply to it but unfounded assertions , and we look in vain for any thing like an argument . He adds , "But as the objection chiefly respects future punishment , it may be observed , that if this punishment is considered as corrective , the difficulty
vanishes . " How can we suppose that future punishment can be corrective on his principles , when any punishment would be manifestly unjust and useless ? Punishment would he corrective , or produce moral goodness , as soon in a fish as it would in him who had been
governed , and continues to be governed , in all his wills and actions by Necessity , and it would be equally merited in both cases . None but moral beings , who have it in their power to avoid vice , can deserve punishment , and no other beings can be morally corrected and benefited by it *
Fourth objection . " The doctrine of Necessity makes God the author of sin . " I apprehend the objection would be more accurately stated thus : " The doctrine , if true , makes God the author of what we erroneously conceive to be
sin . " Mr . C / s answer is , " If the moral evil which exists in the creation is conducive to good , no difficulty arises from its introduction / ' This is
indeed a most excellent observation , if viewed without a reference to the philosophy of the author ; for on his system , no such thing as moral good or evil can exist .
The two remaining objections , with Mr . C / s replies , and a farther defence of Necessity , in your next Number , are of less consequence . I fear , Mr . Editor , I have trespassed too much on your valuable space . With your
correspondent Dr . Morell , whose letter , in your second Number , [ XV . 86 , ) is able and eloquent , I am alike uufriendly to the discussion of abstruse metaphysical subjects , without novelty or interest , in a popular publication . I trust it will be conceded to me , that I have
not overlooked this sentiment , while I have endeavoured to dioengage the « nnds of your readers from a perplexing subject , by shewing , in plain languag e , that the doctrine of Necessity , as far as it has been advocated bjr Mr . kogau , is not founded in argument S .
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Unitariamsm in the Potteries * f Staffordshire . 599
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Hackney-Road , - Sir , , October 15 , 1821 . HAVING lately visited the Potteries in Staffordshire , I beg leave , through the medium of the Re ^ pository , to state to the Unitarian public , the prospect of the success of the Unitarian cause in that populous
and important district , if proper aid be given , and effective means used to promote it . At Neweastle-under-Line , a chapel is now open , and Unitarian worship regularly conducted in it . This chapel was for a number of years lost to us , and brought into a dilapidated state ; but it has been recovered
and put in a proper state of repair , by the laudable exertions of a few ze ^ ous individuals . In this chapel public worship h ^ s been conducted once on a Sunday , for about twelve months , by the assistance of Mr . Fillinghatn ^ the minister at Congleton ; but the friends of the cause , judging . that much more
might be done if they had a minister residing among them , and that ittwas highly desirable to establish Unitarian worship at Hanley , the central and . most populous part of the Potteries , have engaged Mr . Cooper ( who was educated at the Academy at Durham House , Hackney-Road , an $ is lately returned from the West Indies , where
he was engaged three years in an at-, tempt to instruct the Negroes ) to be their minister , and he is now entering on his office and work ; the most important part of which will be to establish and carry on the Unitarian cause
at Hanley , and in other places in the Potteries . At Haniey a room is engaged , and Unitarian worship is conducted in it once on the Sunday . In this room I preached three times to most crowded audiences . It was
estimated that , the last evening , three hundred people crowded into the room , and , I was told , several hundreds went away who could not gain admittance . The room , when so crowded , is extremely inconvenient , on account of of
the heat , and so large a- p ^ rt the hearers being obliged to stand in the aisle and at the entrance . It js supposed I might have had double the number of hearers had there been a > place convenient to receive them .
It is well known to many of the fr iends of the Unitarian cause , that it is my fixed plan to dissuade newly
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/31/
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