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What could have been done more for you , that I have not done ? May God give us all grace to improve our religious privileges , that we may give up our aecount , at last , with joy , and not with grief . "
Appendix . H . to * o . Reliquiae Viri Reverend ! Andrese Durell , Anglo-Caesarei , A . M Uuiversitatis Sedanensis Alumui Et Ecclesise Anglicaoae Presby . teri , Qui Evangelium non modo fideliter docuit
Sed Vit& etiam ac Monbus expressit Sincere Pietate , Modestid singular ^ Charitate in omues , sine partium Studio Exiinia Humatio denique ac civili Cultu Nulli dum vixit secundus : Janii xi . obiit A . D . mdccxxv .
JBtatis suae lxxi . The village of Adderbury is scarcely ja aiile from Milton . There the Duke 0 f B ^ GcleiLigli had , till within a few years , a spacious mansion . The
celebrated Lord Rochester sometimes visited that place . I have seen the frame and curtains of a bed there that were sa ? id to be his . The curtains were made of a stout dark purple woollen cloth .
There appears to have been at that time , residing in or near Adderbury , a person of the name of Marshall , vvho was a troublesome man ; and when he died , it is said that his Lordship made the following verse on him :
" If heaven is pleas'd when sinners cease to sin , If hell is pleas'd when sinners enter in , If earth is pleas'd when it entambs a knave , Then all are pleas'd , —for Marshall ' s in his grave . " JOSEPH JEVANS .
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Sir , Y acknowledgements are due to MMr . Sturch for the handsome manner in which he has spoken of the temper with which I replied to his animadversions ( p . 220 ) . IIis last paper will furni&h matter for an observation
or two which I wish to make , not from the love of controversy nor the desire of victory , but for the sake of truth in a matter of some moment . Mr . Sturch acknowledges that Christianity has cast a glorious light on the
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future hopes of man . But iff rightly understand Mr . Sturch s mews , he considers Christianity as borrowing its principal evidence from its conformity to the Religion of Nature .
Now , as far as this is the ctise , Christianity cannot render any truth more clear than the Religion of Nature had previously rendered it . Christianity , then , must possess a clear and satis * factory evidence altogether distinct from that which it derives from its
conformity to Natural Religion ; and if this evidence does not amount to certainty , it must amount to something that to practical purposes will serve as well .
. By M mankind , Mr . Sturch means mankind in general . Mr . Locke meant something more . He did not , it is true , include idiots in this expression ; but he , doubtless , meant all who possess the common faculties of human
nature . And I must repeat , that those truths which are intelligible to all mankind , must be too plain to be misunderstood . So that the quotation from MivLocke , though not the most appropriate that might have been selected , was not altogether irrelevant to my purpose .
I suspected that it might be necessary to call in the aid of some spiritual guide to interpret the Religion of Nature , and that its truths are not quite jo clear as they are sometimes represented . And I am confirmed in the
opinion that some obscurity hangs over this religion , when I recollect that different commentators annex different interpretations to the language in which it is written . To instance in the doctrine of a future life : Dr .
Clarke professes to demonstrate this ^ doctrine chiefly from the inequality of the Divine dispensations in relation to the virtuous and the vicious . This demonstration Mr . Sturch -altogether rejects ; and , if my memory does not deceive me , maintains what Dr . Clarke
considers as altogether untenable , that virtue is in every case its own reward Another may be as little satisfied with Mr . Sturch ' s reasonings , as Mr , Sturch is- with the reasonings of Dr . Clarke . And a third may reject-as inefficient and inconclusive the reasonings of both Dr . Clarke and Mr . Sturch . So that
it does , indeed , appear that though the Religion of Nature is certainly true , ** in its general and abstract
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26 € Mr . Cogan , in Reply to Mr . Siurch , on Natural Religion .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/10/
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