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Word that wilful despisers should be told they ivould ga to heaven to be blessed * for ever . Our people hold with-shewing kindness to enemies , and doing all that can be done for their conversion , and they , I think , do as
much in this respect as yours . Are men precipitated into rum by being warned of danger ? Far from being shaken , as you think I am , ray convictions become stronger ; I have , in vain , wished to receive answers .
Some things very consoling have been said . May that which has been professedly expected and sought for with due earnestness on both sides , be obtained fully ! I have endeavoured to ascertain what persons have discovered most the evil of sin . I have
known those who have felt much of what they have thought to be the love of God , and have not experienced that contrition that ought to flow from it . I have known others who , looking to the liability to eternal death , have been awfully aware of their state as sinners , and of the unsearchable depravity and deceitfulness of the human heart ,
discovering millions of sins in departing from God ; and have been afraid of themselves , and have prayed for the new heart and the new spirit . That experience of the love of God that is not accompanied by such convictions
and compunctions , I do not consider to be genuine . Let me look at eternal death as the wages of sin , that I may estimate death as I ought . Our people , at least some of them , have awful convictions of the state of
human nature by reason of the fall , which they would find it impossible to give your people a perception of . They know that none but God can give that perception . I am well assured that all the good that you propose is abundantly secured
without your doctrine . I see clear and strong * proofs that much evil is produced by it , and I discover the baneful effects of it in the experience of your people- Nevertheless , I hope that you will hereafter joyfully leave these matters to God . You and I
are running away from ourselves , and hardening" our hearts awfully . Perhaps that we must have some heavy calamity to make us look within and search deeper and deeper , groaning in conviction , contrition and repentance until our last hour , then we shall be
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more spiritual . We run away from these things to provide for others ; but we must come home at last ; and how 9 hall we find matters then ? Let us settle these first , when we shall be better prepared for the other * You will say it is hardness of heart in me
to resist your doctrine . I make answer , that I am told to fear him who , after he has killed , has power to destroy soul and body in hell . I have many similar admonitions to plead to in th e day of judgment . My own prayers may be hindered by pleading for truth as well as error . I cannot yet pray as I ought . All my attention is due to nay own state . N .
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I to N . Dear N . 6 tA October . € Of man ' s first disobedience , and the fruit Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste Brought death into the world and all our
woe , With loss of Eden , till one greater Man Restore us and regain the blissful seat , Sing heavenly Muse , that ou the secret top Of Oreb or of Sinai , didst inspire That Shepherd who first taught the chosen seed
In the beginning , how the heaven and earth Rose out of chaos : or , if Sion hill Delight thee more , and Siloa ' s brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God ; 1 thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to
soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unatterupted yet in prose or rhyme . And chiefly thou , O Spirit , that dost prefer Before all Temples the upright heart and
pure , Instruct me , for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings outspread , Dove-like sat ' st brooding on the vast
abyss , And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark , Illumine ; what is low , raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence , And justify the ways of God to men . " You say in one of your communications that we do not sufficiently pray
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276 A Friendly Correspondence between an Unitarian and a CafomU £ -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/20/
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