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    Islington , Sir , Jan . \ , 1 S 24 . npHOUGH the Rev . Edward Ir-. ; jL vitog in the Preface to the Third Edition of his * f Oracles of God and

    Judgment toco me , " says he prays for his ' * unregeuerate critics in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of imquity /* yet I am not sony for the notice I took of his work , in a former Number of your Miscellany . ( XVIII . 4 S 8 . ) Indeed , his admirers have thanked me for it . My only wish was that he would review the

    heartwithering * doctrine of eternal torm&nts , which he himself confesses " sh ^ ks the faculties of reason and distresses the powers of belief . " However ^ I must ck > him the justice to deekare , that he does not couple along with it , like many of his orthodox brethren , the horrible decree of " election a » d

    reprobation . He again % md agafn insists cm the possibility of t&e sinner escafing eternal torment , and an ex > elusion from heaven is the result of his own incurable depravity . One paragraph on the subject is too remarkable to be omitted .

    " 'All a man ' s life-time is the reign of grace . Till he closes his eyes , mercy weeps over him to melt his stony heart . God's awn Son , whose daughter mercy is , weeps over him to melt his stony heart ; he skews to him his wounds and his cross , telling him he

    hath died once and could die again to &ave him ! Surely God is slower to judgment than man is ; surely unto the last he puttetk off ; surely there is not any thing he would not do sooner than

    bring it to the gr&ndftnd finishing stroke oteverlasting doom ! " So far so well ; for as Dr . Doddridge in his Theological Lectures justly remarksj " That a Being who is said not to tempt any one , and even swears that he desires

    not the death of a sinner , should irresistibl y determine mil&ions to the commission of every sinful action of their lives , and then with all the pomp aod pageantry of an universal judgment condemn th « m to ettrnai misery , on account of these actions ,

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    4 hat hevefof lie mnyyTomate-Ihe b&g piness of others , wh <> are or shall |> e > irresistibly deteisnjtoed to * irtu % in Hke manner , te 9 q { all inedible things to me the most incredible ! . - '¦; \

    To shetir the Rev . Mr . living that I am not one of those unregenerate critics who delight oaiy , ia finding fault with his work , I"will conclude with an e&tract , which , amidst the

    multiplicity of quotations , has never yet made its appearance in any periodical publication . It is on a future xtate * Had Mr . Irving always written thus * his volume would have been eminently

    useful and encountered no opposition throughout the religkms world . It takes the Unitarian ground of inctileatiog * the resurrection of the humati race from the resurrection of ike

    Man Christ Jesus , agreeably to fhfe words of the Apostle Paul > 1 Cor . % s-21 : Since by man came deathf by ma % > came also the resurrection oj 4 he ° d& $ d $ and yet by ifris Reveretid Divide from the pulpit are UNiTAittAisr g frequen tf ^ f unchristianized . The extract is the

    best part of the volume : it is ^ udrfes ^ ed to Unbelievers , aiid ^ written hi . t-hfe spirit of unadulterated aitd seiiptufrdl theology . Nor is it an improper tdpfe of meditation at the eommeacemefrfe of the new year . " Seeing we have a jl , l to pass througfa the same ocean of death which our

    Saviour passed , and to explore the unknown land beyond it from which he alone returned , it behoves us to apply to hiha for advice upon the best outfit for the journey - He alone dofcft know , for he alone li&th seen , Oxxs

    own fancies are dubiotis ; and m&f prove as vtfide of the truth vfchen we awaken upon the long day of etfcrmty ^ as our visions uj ) oir our pillovv do seem in the naormng . Neitfrer let u ^

    be directed bf the fancies of btheJP men who see no further beyond death than we do . The land is & new laiidv to the nature of which you atwt I ana all men are strang ^ rs ^ It lies like ft Wide dark ocean spfead arountl th ^ i little island of life whereon we so ^

    joufrn i A dark impeoetrable curteifi shrouds us in * of whietfc the sight ia fearfaL and the neighbourhood ap ^ palling . All meh are moving toward ^ thfe dark verge with ceaseless afld anxious motion ^ which sometimes ap = * proaelieth abid shrbudeth itp nirtlli ^

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    -preserve silence from a desire ?» oe to give publicity to a publication that at once overturns this portion of the fabric of Orthodoxy ? AN OLD SUBSCRIBER .

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    $ 0 X > r * Evans on Mr * fPvtng * * * -Oraelm , **^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/30/