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Jt Friendly Correspondence , between an Unitarian and a < Calvini $ t * ( Continued from p « 3370 110 N . Dear N . 8 th October .
BEFORE I proceted to answer the qtiiery to which I alluded at the conclusion of toy last cOttittMttfcatioii ,, t feel it pttopet to notice a passage iil Wk < tf tlifc papers wMch I tffccefyed ttbm you this rimming . With r&fe * ericfe to tke ihqtritfy in Which we have ( togagfcd i you tiib * ttw >
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that * fc # y yvfigt I will , these matters ougftt to-be left implicitly ivith Gt > d > who has premised to clear up every thing , and make us plead gtiilty and justify him at the day of judgment /* You then proceed to insist upon the paramount importance of self-examination , with a view to ascertaining 1
the true state of our own spiritual condition . I am sorry to be obliged so often to remind you that the question mooted by you had ngt relation to my own Condition , but to certain opinions which I hold respecting the
government of God , which opinions it was your object to correct . I am sure you do not mean to affirm that our spiritual safety is to be determined by otif creeds in speculative doctrines , because this would lead to the conelu *
fcion that all men who subscribe to the general opinion as to the etertuty of future punishment , would , simply in consequence , and in virtue of that subscription , be saved ; \ vherea 3 our Lord declares that those only shall be saved who do the will of his Father .
And an apostle has added in the same strain that not the hearers biit the doers of the law of Christ shall be justified , The Apdstle Paul himself did not consider himself absolutely secure , although he might have all
knowledge , unless charity ( i . e * Universal Benevolence ) were superadded . To close , therefore , all inquiry into a point of doctrine , by reiterating * the observation that personal religion atid personal happiness should occupy our chief attention , is to evade the
question ; and if your sole object has been to warn tne of my sloth fulness , land to exhort me to sobriety and diligence , yoli Wotkld have been spared the Irotible of peftising , and I <> f writing a great deal of ^ vhat has
been submitted to you : indeed , it is toost pfbbdble , that I should have merely acknowledged iny sense of your kiad intentions in ad minis tering salutary tept-oof , frnd expressing my hope of profiting by it . But this is fcot the state of the fcase . You most
distinctly charge me with maintaining erroneous notions respecting the final doom bf unbeliever , who uftii&ppity constitute the grt&t hiajority of inatakind . I fitid to fiittlt With yoto c * otidii € t in eficleavottrjng to reclaim me from a strppoae ^ l - gytw ; on the contrary , it indioatcs h concern for tot
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them , because not soleiiiiiisfceci acqo ^ d-Itig to the rules of th ^ Ch u rch of Ehgland ; h& dfeblar ^ d th ^ it he \ # & s iidt willing , on his 6 wn bpinion , to make their children b&BtaFdS , and give ( qy . gave ?) direbtidtis to the Jury to nnd it special . It was a reflection 6 a the whole pfarty , that one q £ them , to avoid an inconvenience he had fallen
into , thought to have preserved him * self by a defence , that , if it had been iallbwed in law , must hare made their whole isSue bastards , and incapable of succession \ and if thife Judg ^ h iad not been mote their friend , than ofofc of
thiose they to called , their jyoateiity tad be ^ ri little behoMtiig to them . B ^ it he governed hi itisel f , indeed , by ttie 1 tov of trhe gospel , of * doing to TJthefs what he would have others do
to hifh }* atid , therefore , because he tyoiild -have thought it a hardship not Without crueky , if knpbtigst Papists toll m&rria £ fe $ were bulled Which had not been ifcteate vrtth & 11 the fc 6
remotiie $ in tlit ftbmato rituttij so , applying thia to the <^ ise of sectaries , he thougbt all marriages made according tti tha tievehralpersuasions of men , otigfet to haytf their effects tti la ^ v . " A ^ ttiajl circle 6 f your readers tvbuld be very thtrtikful for fcomfc biographical memoil-s of i * Abbk 16 Plttvhe ;
% Vhb appears frorii his % oriks to h&ve b ^ en ah uhiversal genius ; and whose •* Spectacle de la Nature /* I have heard eiilo ^^ d by fc colnpetent judge , in the satiie language used by Dr . Johnson , rfesipectiiig ^ atts's " Improvement of the Miiid / ' viz ., as a work which should nevefr be left
out of a rational System of education . I do not Recollect whether , in the English translation of the above-named treatise , there be ahy account of the author . R .
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3 ^ 4 A Friendly Correspondence between an UjiitHrtah and a Calvinist .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/10/
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