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difficulties which press upon you . Such studies and difficulties have great U $ e In opening the mind , and preventing conceit and confidence . They read us dail y lessons of humility and
selfdiffidence , and the necessity of earnest prayer to the Father of lights , that he would open our understanding , guide us into truth , and keep us from error on the right hand and on the left . I am , Your sincere friend and servant , JOB ORTON .
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" As among unconverted persons / ' p . 79 I refer to , rather than copy , the passage , that I may not intrude upon your pages . , Keeping in mind tlie above definition of the act of Justification , and the rule b \ which we estimate the
moral characters ot mankind , I would submit the following" question , —Will every . individual be included in the act of Justification , who has improved to the utmost of his power the means for attaining personal holiness , placed within bis reach by the Supreme Moral Ruler ?
Should Dr . Smith favour me with an answer to this question as explicitly as he has replied to the three former ^ I shall probably intrude upon you a few remarks upon his and my views of Justification before God : and probablv the difference between them is
not so great as from the Doctor ' s first expressions T was led to expect . The request that I would . read Mr . Fuller ' s Sermon , I shall most cheerfully comply with . THOMAS GIBSON .
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154 A Further Question to Dr . J * P . Smith *
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Sir , March 5 , 1825 . AM much obliged to Dr . Pye I Smith ( pp . 77—81 ) for his civil
and early attention to the questions I proposed to him in the Mon . Repos . ( p . 17 ) . To the first his answer appears unexceptionable . His definition of the term personal holiness is clear and accurate . The second and third
questions are shortly answered by an affirmative and a negative . As to the fourth , after giving much attention to the Remarks , I am not sure I understand the answer : perhaps the terms
I used did not convey a clear and accurate meaning * . I request the favour of you to allow rne space in a succeeding Number for a few remarks and one short question , that I may endeavour to remove the uncertainty .
" Ihe term Justification , " says the learned gentleman , " expresses a state or relation with respect to God . It therefore does not admit of degress : it either is or is not . The act of
Justification is the judicial decision of the Supreme Moral Ruler , by which he pardons the sins of those who are the subjects of this blessing , and bestows upon them the enjoyment of perfect and eternal happiness /'
When we speak of the moral characters of individuals , and use the language of blame or commendation , we usually have reference to their condition , to the advantages or disadvantages of the circumstances they arc
placed in . So also in our estimate of the attainments they arc supposed to have made in virtue or personal holiness , we judge relatively rather than absolutely . Dr . Smith appears to have formed his estimate of " true
Christians , who are justified before God" in this manner , in that part of his letter beginning with the wordg ,
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Tiro Letters of Dr . Parr ' s . f S \ HE death of Dr . Parr , which is JL announced in our present number , will be followed , we take for granted , by the publication of much of his correspondence ; which , from his wide connexion , from the talents .
character and station of his friends , from his habit of writing even notes in a finished style , and , from his frankness in speaking of himself and declaring his opinions , cannot fail of being exceedingly interesting . The following Letters have been already published in the Life of the late Dr . Pereiva ) ,
of Manchester , prefixed to the edition of his Works , in 4 vols . 8 vo ., by his son , Edward Pcrcival , M . D ., of Dublin ; but so many years have elapsed since that publication , a , » d it is in so few hands , that we believe we shall gratify most of our readers by reprinting them .
The finst letter was addressed to the Rev . T . B . Per rival * in . acknowledgment of a copy of his Sermon on Hospital Duties . This gentleman was the eldest son of Dr . Percival , of Manchester , and , though brought up a Dissenter , conformed to the Church
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/26/
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