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Mr * Gogim Qn Bishop Burgess ' s UnchanUableness . 531
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high pleasure $ t w&s % Q create us fr $ , and whose characteristic fo ^ must necessarily incline him to treat our frailties leniently j who $ e nature caiji be disinclined to none but the
stubborn ,, unreluetant sinner 5 nor to Uira but for a season * and with the gr ^ - eious purpose of reclaiming Jiina ? Can be be void of a death-bed consolation , who has been aeeiistpmed to
regard anil look up to his Creator as unwions ( if the expression be eondistent with hi * attributes ) for the happiness of all his rational offspring , as loving them universally and impartially , and because he has created
them ; who lias a thousand times announced his placability % o sinners , 0 xwtmg y no other atonement , for offences 3 > ap $ sincere repentance , exemplified in purged morals and correspQiidmg habits of life ? Spy rather , that the Unitarian , undSr the iaflaeaee of his habitual
trust in such declarations , might in his extremity sing a song pf triumph , when the devoutest professor of Or * tbodaxy—r-eteteris pqribus in respect to the parity qf their lives—qpright be weighed down with , oppressive forebodings , the result of Ws lower estimate of the Divine character !*
The inconsistent e&s ^ ge also been brought against UmtPWQS that they respect too lightly the threateaiing's of divine vengeance , fritter aw ^ y their literal import , and rerpQ&e too imhly , and even presumptuously f on the assurances of divine love , abounding as they confessedly are
-But , is that an argument against Unitdrianisin " supplying eonsolation upon a de » th ^ l > ed 1 Th $ ftasuiijption is a nou sequitur , so palpable m to induce a smile . The converse might fairly be argued ; leaving the question open as to the correctness Qi Unitarian apprehensions on the subject .
No , Sirl let us receive our Apastie ' s repeated axiom—with the humblest and the warmest gratitude re * , eeive and cherish it *—in its genuine sense , that God * a love to raaoKiud i ^
a feelkig , which his power ea * ibUs him to gratify ; that , as tihfl declaration of it is absolute , his love naust he unlimited ; and , whatever presuming mortals Cmen who woulu appropriate the Divine mercy ) may suggest * Vide Postscript .
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S J R , T | A rC ] UY , when I was on a visit in 1 J the country , I laid my handt > qh the Evungelical Mjag ^^ ine , and noticed the passage pn which your correspondent Ji , B . has aniai ^ dverted with just
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to the contrary , let m rest vx the conviction that the God who is Love , views , in his boundless survey of the universe , the shrinking Calvimst , the confiding Unitari ^ , and the whole human race with undisturbed complacence , ^ nd with an equid regard to their eternal welfare
-Considering the stress laid in the Scriptures upon the article of fqith , and the saving merit ascribed to it , of which these examples may suffice , '' As thou hast believed , so be it done unto thee " - ^ - ~
" Thyjwith hath made thee whole " - * - " Thy faith h ^ th saved tbee "~ And , considering that the Unitarian ' s faith in the Divine benignity , even were it overweening , appears so consonant to the spirit of the gospel , it would be difficult to conceive how it
can ever be imputed to him for un- * righteousness . Jll betide—I could almost breathe the imprecation—ill betide the sainted bigot , who would divest him of this faith on the verge of eternity I It may be more charitable to ada—Enlighten , O God ! the mind so clouded as to question its efficacy in our departing moments !
BREVIS . P . S . All $£ cts and denominatioas concur in speaking of the Almighty as the Father Qf the human race . Contemplating him in this endearing character , let us retire from it to one of ourselves , upon the supposition of
las being even morally certain that some or onq of any children he might have , would , maugre all his endeavours to make them virtuous , 30 act a $ to perish everlastingly . " Should we hesitate , if that man took a wife .
or approached a womap , to pronounce him the \ v 0 r 3 t aad wickedest of all bad men ? Would the man who volunteered Jiiftxself the instrument of such perdition * deserve from us a more respectful mention ? I leave the C&ivinMs to make the application . B .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1824, page 531, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2528/page/19/
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