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tered the threatenings recorded by the Evangelists , with the intention to suggest or to favour the doctrine of Universal Restoration ; at least , if that doctrine be true , it could never be his design to generate in the minds of his hearers an idea , not only absolutely false , but , as is pretended , highly injurious to the JJivine character , and quite destructive of all the sanctions of morality , " &c .
Dr . Smith and others speak in unqualified terms of the impartiality of God ' s providence to the children of men : permit me , Mr . Editor , in concluding this paper , to ask Dr . 8 ., how the frightful disparity of men in the most important point , moral character
and the means of its improvement , is reconciled with any definite sense of the term impartial ? Dr . Smith has also , in his delightful views of Providence , and his illustrations of its wisdom and benevolence , boldly asserted , that , with respect to the moral world , every man is placed in circumstances ,
adjusted with infinite nicety to his natural powers and propensities . Where is the proof of this in fact ? And if true , in fact , why does the moral world exhibit its present motley aspect ; why all its discordancy , its folly , its madness , its vices , its crimes ? Whence all the unfortunate results of
birth , parentage and education ? Why thousands and tens of thousands unhappy consequences of concomitant circumstances , if the Deity has always good in view , and his providence with unerring wisdom has adapted every circumstance in the moral world to produce good ? This may be true in the final issue of tilings , and our
present ignorance and limited views prevent us knowing * it ; but I submit to Dr . S ., do present facts and appearances bear out a proposition so perfectly satisfactory ? Much would many minds , besides my own , be relieved , Sir , by a clear proof of it . It
appears to myself , Sir , that when we travel an inch out of the record , that Ls , when we stir a step from Scripture tuition and guidance in our reasoning on the ways of God , we are at
once in a labyrinth , witli endless error and perplexity before us : and it might seem a beautiful character of the wisdom and excellence of Scripture , that it comprises precisely what human nature appears to want in the present
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Italian Reformation . 77 i c Non conformist . No . XXIII . ( Continued from p . G . ) Although some progress was made in the work of Reformation in the
South of Italy , yet the success of the cause , if it be measured by the number and celebrity of the converts , was much greater in the northern states . The territories of Venice , in particular , became , at an early period , honourably distinguished by the attention that was excited in them to the
religious inquiries and controversies of the age . It appears , from a letter written to Luther by Frobenius , a printer at Basle , which is dated in February , 1519 , that , even previously to this period , the writings of that
Reformer had been conveyed in considerable numbers to Italy , where they had been extensively dispersed , and read with avidity and approbation . * In the following year was issued the first Bull of Leo the Tenth
against Luther and his writings , which was sent to the Senate of Venice , with instructions to have it proclaimed in that city . The Senate were , however , in no haste to render themselves a
party in the quarrel . They thought it prudent , nevertheless , to make a show of compliance , and immediately a strict search was instituted by the ecclesiastical authorities , after the publications of Luther in the houses of the
booksellers : hut , with the exception of a single imperfect copy of one of his works , which was seized , they found that all that had been imported had * Gerdes , Specimen Italiae Ileformatse ,
pp . 4 , f > . Calvus bibliopoia Papiensw , vir eruditisyimus , et miLsis sacer , bonani libclloruiu partem in Italiam deportavit , per onmes civitates sparsurus . Neque
cniin tarn sectatur lucruin , quam cu ^ it renascent i pietali suppctias ferre , et quatenus potest , prodesse . Is promisit ab omnibus cruditis in Italia viris Ep igrammata se niLssnrum in tui laudem scripta ,
usque adeo tibi favet , Christique negotio , quod tanta consiautia , tarn viriliter tarnque dextre eeris .
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86 The Nonconformist . No . XXIII .
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state $ namely , objects of faftjb and hope ; motives to vigilance and exertion ; clear precepts and positive commands ; promises , for present comfort , of future rest and recompence . QUERO .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/22/
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