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716 A Friendly Correspondence between an Unitarian and a ( Jalvinist .
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supposed errors , * I will read your notes ; and the moment they work a change , you shall know it . f Ypii are under V great mistake if you suppose ( as throughout your
correspondence you appear to do ) that I believe that sinners will obtain happiness Until they are brought to repentance . J 1 am well assured that this is utterly impossible ; but it is said that God will have all men to
repent and to come to the knowledge of the truth ; $ and he knows how to accomplish all his purposes , and to reconcile all || things to his blessed rule and government . If good men hate sin , surely they do not bate it more than God hates it : the only way of
putting . ah end to sin is by-substituting- universal righteousness ; and the only way of abolishing death is by quickening all things and creating all things new , ^| which are all express promises . These may be easily reconciled with the execution of all the
threatenings of scripture , if the duration of punishment be limited ; but if it be eternal , the most glorious displays of divine grace , in many plain texts , some of which I have already quoted from memory , must ever be regarded as contradictory and absurd . **
My view of the scheme of Divine Providence is this—that God has created all things for his own good pleasure ; that he has no pleasure in pain and misery , regarded as an end , although he has seen fit to employ them as means for the accomplishment of a good end—an end worthy of his
attributes , namely , that of convincing every sinner of the evil and folly of sin , and of bringing him to submit ft to the government of his Son . I do not consider the impenitent as standing in a different relation to God from those who in this life believe and obey the gospel . Christ died for all ; JX all things are given to him , in order
* Can I raise the dead ? + When God awakens you - J You do not prove repentance . § Applicable to a time-state . He affords the means .
|| God knows what all means here . ^[ God knows what this means . ** Until God pfivcs us sight . ¦ \ - \ r He must submit in one way or another . 1 \ Who are willing to be saved .
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that he may lose nothing , * put raise it up at thfc last day ; Thbse who now believe suffer chastisement , and , through rnu 6 h tribulation , enter into the kingdom of God ; and those who die in their sins will come billof great tribiHa $ ioii # I cannot believe that
God created afty main for the purpose of making him eternally miserable ; % ( if I did I could not confide in him ;) and if this was not his design , what is to hinder him from performing all his pleasure ? § The truth is , t ] tiat every individual is a letter in the divine
alphabet , and that the infinite number || of combinations of which the creatures are capable , lylll afford work for eternity . When ev £ ry individual ivill shall be rendered conformable to the Divine will , < fi Had God shall be all in all , then , atod not till i ^ ien , will the jby of heaven Sbe complete : ^ fbr then each indiviihial will feel as if
every one else acted in obedience to his own will , because every ' "dote , and he among the rest , will have no o ^ her will than that of the great direefciiig Power . ** This view of heaven serves to explain the anxiety of the angels of God for the recovery of sinful inen . ff They cannot get up the grand chorus till death and hell shall be swallowed
up in victory . JJ I am astonished how a man of your sense and good taste can rest contented §§> witli a scheme which robs God of his glory , |||| Christ of his purchased property , and the first-born tif the services of the rest
of the human race . If , however , you * Nothing that was comprehended in the gift will be lost . t Time will shew : we shall see how it will be . X Therefore he offers him grace and mercy if he will have it . § If we will repent and turn to God , his pleasure will be performed in us .
|| Better to look to ourselves more . If In one way to one , and in another way to another . Let us first be awakened and converted , and then we shall know more about these matters . Every thing will be as it should be .
** Then nothing that the blessed will see will cause pain . - ft" In a time-state . XX We Want more light to understand this . §§ I must take things as God makes me fe < d them . : Hit God cannot lose his glory .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 716, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/12/
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