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peace anq satisfaction these contemplations afford line . VJou remember how much I was overcome with si * r perstitious fears when I was young ; I thank God that he has , at last , brought me to a lively sense of his infinite goodness to all his creatures , and that I see it both in all his works and
in every page of his word . This has made me much more indifferent to the world , than ever * at the same time that I enjoy it more ; it has taught me to love every man , and to rejoice in the happiness which
our heavenly Father intends for all his children , and . quite dispersed all the gloomy and melancholy thoughts which arose from the apprehensions of eternal misery for myself and my friend s *
How long , or how . much God will punish wicked men , he has no where said , and therefore I cannot at all tell ; but of this I am sure , that in judgment he will remember mercy ; that he will not be extreme to mark
what is done amiss ; that " he chastens only because he loves ; " that " he will not return to destroy , " because he is God and not man , his tender mercies are over all his works ; and that he is love itself .
I could almost transcribe the whole Bible , and the conclusion I draw from all this is , first , that no man can ever be happy unless he is holy ; unless his affections be taken off from this vain world and set upon a better ; unless he love God above all things , and his neighbour as himself . Secondly , that all the evils and miseries which God
sends upon us are for no other purpose but to bring U 9 to himself , to the knowledge and practice of our duty , and , that as soon as that is done , they will have an end . Many men are so
foolish as t <> fight against God all their lives , and to die full of obstinacy and perveraeness . However , God s method of dealing with them in another world is still full of mercy , at the same time that it is severe * - He
will force them to comply , and make them happy whether they \ yill or no . > In the mean time , those who are of au humble an < J contrite heart have nothing to feareven here : God will
, conduct them through all the afflictions which he thinks fit to lay upon them for thjeir good , with infinite ten 7 derness and compassion .
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_ I wish these thou ^ ts xyla y 1 ^ jas serviceable to you , ..-&stij > ey ha ^^^ en to your affectionate brother , ' > ;¦ DAVID HAmtWt *
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Judgtt ' Hah \ on ~ Dh&enters ' Marriages * 39 $
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JSi r , July 5 , 1824 . r 11 HE following extract from BIJL shop Burnet ' s Life of Sir Matthew Hale , 1682 , ( a book not in
everyone ' s hand , ) may not be unseasonable in the present stage of * a political question . It is said of this distinguished character , that , in trials for witchcraft ' , at which jhe . presided ,. he has coincided with the verdict of
besotted juries , who found the prisoners guilty : and that some of these miserable victims were in consequence actually executed . That the profound James believed in Witchcraft , is evident from his writings ; but one cannot readily conceive this of the pious and enlightened Judge Hale . His
biographer , who could ; not have held such absurd and mischievous opinions , never glances upon the subject ; which , if the facts were as commonly reported , impartiality should have led him to relate . If any of your readers can furnish some information upon this topic , it will be very desirable , either to redeem the character of this
eminent person from unmerited obloquy , or to exhibit the weakness of human nature in particular cases , in the brightest characters that have adorned the world . The excellencies of gre * at men should not render us blind to their defects . " De mortiiis , nil , nisi verumJ * ,
" He was a devout Christian , a sincere Protestant , and a true son . of the Church of England ; moderate towards Dissenters , and just even to those from whom he differed most ; which appeared signally in the care h $ took of preserving the Quakers from that mischief that was like to fall on
them , by declaring their marriages void , and so bastarding their children : but he considered marriage and succession as a right of nature , from which none ought to be barred , what mistake soever they might be under ,
in the points of revealed religion : c ^ nd , therefore , in a trial that was before him , when a Quaker was ¦ sued for some debts owing by his , wife before he married her , Wil the Qua * ker'a counsel pretended that it was no marriage that had ; passed befwfefcn
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/9/
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