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* ViAout actual prostration , t could pesfoibiy % fcfe expressed iii ^ yselfiR move coaeiliatGry au 4 deferential language tliaa I have adapted in my late com * inUrtications with you . I congra&ilatecl myself upon the signature of
] petee > upon tfoe terms of * the statu quo , with a separate article relating to coirimeraal objects , providing for the free e&dhaageof ail except a few proliifrlted articles . Rut factor vahi -are
human wishes , and human hopes and fcxpefctatioris ! Ttee p&reh ment waa en * grossed , th& seals vvetfe brought fo # th > tnioe was -actually affixed yours was apparently in your hand , vVhen to ami behold , to my utter astonishment , appears upon the table & cenire + projet ,
ojtenkig up tfee whole qiiestHm ml issiie . I aiia called upon to gfae up ctli my $ x !> ints , and , like a poo ^ r fellow applying to the Bishop of Peterborough for wders , i must rfcply in fiv ^ e lines to each article of thfc projet . My dear l § ir * do you Bot know that & ehiidniay
in * ve words put a que ^ tioa which a philosopher could not answer in as many days or weeks ? Papa , who made God?—Nobody , my dear . —Who made the Devil?—God , my dear . — Papa , why does not God kill the Devil?—Ah I -tfoa-t ' s a puzzler . —You ask .
** Had you been present when Jesus < 3 hri 3 t paid that such persons ( meaning Gueh as shmed against the Holy Ohost ) should not be forgiven ill the World to tsoHfte- ^ thut they should , and be tole&s ^ ^ ed to all etermty ? " The < 3 nly ans ^^ r ^ % ich I can , just at preseat , teturn to
such a question is , that as , Withotit ^ i , personal knowledge of the Lord Jesus , I nevertheless love atid respect hfe character too much < to gainsay his words , sure I am , that if I had enTOiWe ^
the distinguished hoBour of seeing his mighty works awd hearing his wise diBcourses , this feeling of love a «^ i ^ espec ^ t Would have been so greatly increased , that it is very improbabte that I should have ventured to
contrak-< Iict him , ^ il ^ hough it is possible tliat ^ like Iris disciples , I uaSg * ht have re-< ftie £ ted him in private to explain his * meani » g . In th 6 al > sen <^ o ¥ ^ tlife great Teacher , I must do , as # 11 htttaMe
iiftcjuirers after the tFutfe hftv ^ iloj&fe , diligently and patiently and can ^ idjy weig * h aiw ! compare one raying with another , ^ kaowing « bat * ' wo lie ie .-of J the truth ; " that is to say , 4 / Jiat t&fe Scripture in geweml ^ ^ nd , by w&w ^ JF
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bfaimtim , ^ he ^ spd Cteri ^ canno t contain contradictions . tTbisy how * . W £ t , is ^ a wbtk - i ^ F time ; and I must ,, therefore , stuce ^© u have put the qu ^ s twn t ? hus directly , crave your indal * ^ ence for % short space , in order that I m £ y frame my answer . If I am
fo * ce < 5 to resort to my artillery , blame me not . Of one thing be assured , that your person shall sustain no in-Jury , % vhetever may become of your fortifications . Yours affectionately , fro be continued . }
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if Deau Brethren , * ' A xjonsMerable change having taken place in my religious seritiaients , I deem it a 4 luty which 1 owe t © ymk aiHid to myself , aft ^ r my mind has errived at a full conviction on the
subject > to give you the earliest information respecttog it . The change to which I refer Tespeete the doctrine of the Trinityy or which , at the time of any < lepamire from England , I -coutfcietitwmsly held the sentiments whidli in
I ( professed . ^ Siiiice my arrival thi s country , however , the discussions in which I have been engaged , in the discharge of my < krttea as a Missionary , with the na ^ tiyes , both idolatrous and jnoiK > the , istical , have convinced me that the doctrine referred to can
be defended against those who reject 'Oforistianity , ouly by the same argiu-Tftents which sup | K ) rt all idolatry , * ajidi a tsenewfed and diligent cxauiinatiom of 4 b « S # er ^ d Scriptures h ^ s ter na itaated in a no flees fir ^ n persuasion , that Sti& < eqttftHy indefensibte agains * tfeose wfoo dra ^ V th « it ^ h ^ ecti ^ ns and argu-4 rnei ) ts -fiMtl ( tlidt source . 1 th « iiefore
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Mr . Adam ' s Letter to the Vommitiee of the Baptist Missionary Society on his renouncing Trmiterianis ? n with his Remarks on Mr . 7 vimep * s Letters in the Morning- Chronicle . ( See Mqu . &ep&s . Vol . XVU . pp . 682 ~ 69 O 0 Cal € utta 9
Sm , Sept . 7 * 1821 . "JTJEjEliVliT me to request the inser-JL tion in the Moathly Repository of the iollowiiig letter , addressed to the Committee of the Baptist Missionary ^ Society , to vy hicii I shall also crave leave to subjoin some additional remaHrk ^ -. —* --
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/36/
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