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Bible Contest in Ireland . 721
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standing meyiodem fashing of lowering the morality df the Mosaic oeconotny , he meant no more than What our religion enjoins , thai we should hate sin but not the sinner . HoWetfer , as in the Christian heaven there will
be no more pain , nor sorrow , nor sighing , * it is plain there can be no abhorrence , strictly so called : on th 0 other hand , to Suppose the Celestial inhabitants may possibly have nt ? knowledge of the punishments of the wicked , is to start a conjecture
without any foundation , or to cut the knot instead of loosing it . They must possess this knowledge if they are tobe the same beings , endowed with similar mental faculties , though abundantly enlarged and improved ! How then are we to solve this difficulty ? The
answer is not far to seek : adequate punishments on earth are regarded by good inert not only without dbhorrencel but with complacency and approbation , not frorii a vindictive spirit ,
but with a view to the prevention of evil , and to the general interests of society : now , by analogy , we inay conclude that , in a future state , supposing similar ci rcumstances , they will be attended with similar effects . .
No . 7 . This passage exceeds tn >* comprehension . Bu ^ t it is probable that sotrie farther thoughts on this subject will be submitted to you under another signature , in completion of a few papers which have appeared in soine former numbers of the Repository . The subject
can never be exhausted ; and as an old author well observes , ** ¦ Diversity of gifts , though they be not alike eminent and useful * and variety in handling the sfcitoe truths , contribute much to the edification of the church . One book conies into the hands of
some , and another into the hands of others , wkereby truth land piety are abiindaMly promote ^ " * ft . ( I ;)"
* Prcf . to Wishart ' s Tlieolofeia , 1716 .
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Hibte Content in Ireland . THE contest between the advocates of the Uible Society and the Catholics , and especially Catholic priests , in Ireland ^ continues with unabated warmtln . As if air as we have seen , the Catholics fyaye the iidvantage . The
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I * rotestint orators are nt > i of ttie ftmf class , and they ar ^ hampered by the creed of Calvin or the Articles of the Church of England . Discussion is commonly useful , but we fear in this
instance that it will only serve ; to exasperate stitymore fiercely the nrinds of two hostile parties . On one side certainly , political feeling is at t } ie bottom of the ^ controversy , and the opposition to the Bible Society is only a means of venting discontent under
oppression . The Irish newspapers are full of the great debate at Carlow , which lasted three days . It ended with a CatJUolic priest ^ * ' personating a Socinian , ** which threw the meeting Cowing , we
suppose , to tne surprise of the Protestant part of the company ) into confusion . A Cork paper , The Southern Reporter 9 thus relates the matter : — { Mr . M'Sweeny , a Catholic , was speaking , and had been interrupted by Mr . Pope , a Protestant : )—
Here again Mr . Pope called to the Chair , arid urged that Mr . M'Sweeny should ndt be heard . Mr . M'Sweeny , addressing himself to Mr . Pope , said , I was obliged to listen to you for three , hours and a half to-day , and did iiot interrupt you . But be assured of it , if the rules of
this meeting , and a sense of decorum ,, did not prevent me from doing so , you would not have spoken one-third o £ the time . Mr . Chairman ^ I acknowledge that I hare no right to be heard
at any length ^—allow me , as a favour ,. to continue a moment lohger . The gentlemen at the opposite side challenged us to a contest with them in Dublin , or somewhere else . Here I
am , and I will decide the business with the whole of them , or any one of them , on this spot . —I promise you I will not take ten minutes to put an end to the controversy >—( Much noise ; some calling order ; others vocifef * ati ^ " hear him , hear him" )—Aft ^ r some remarks , which we could not catch
from the growing confusion in the pla £ e , Mk M'Sweeny directed the attention of the meeting to the text , ' * Pater major me est , "~~** the Father . __ ' . A .. « . A . ~^ & . 4 . ¦_ . ^^_ aJ ^ \ U * - * . W ^ I 77 ^ "W Viab J ~ M 1 ^ ^^ __ ¦ . _ ¦ is thaft / ahd he chal
greater I am ' - ^ - - lenged all or any of the gentlemen , opposed to him , to prove sigttinst ; lain the divinity of J ^ suS Christ , in case li ^ should personate a Socinian . Mr . Pope ros £ ~ ufcCepted Mr . M * -
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VOL . XIX . 4 Z
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 721, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/17/
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