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have alsa mvented t rajs ju which tp describe then ? . I remember reading a Cahinistic writer who made i $ put y ery clearly that the De ^ ty would have * been reduced to $ dileruiaa , but for the satisfaction which he received by the death of Christ . Now with all
these -inventions , and with the jargon and slang by which they are supported , I have nothing to do . If I am eeasured because I don 1 believe hi $ uch " scriptural" mysteries , my answer it , " Prove that they are
scriptural , and when you have done that , blame , but not before . " it- ** mysteriougness does wt" ( ac * cording to your correspondent ) " afford a substantial argument against the truth of any doctrine which in-5
volves no absolute contradiction , ' it | s certainly verjr strong priro& facie evidence against its truth , if he mews to apply his remark to revelation , since the object of revelation , as we have seed * w $ a not to perpetuate but to abolish mystery . A NONCONFORMIST ,
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EXTRACT FROM REVUE EN . CYCLOP £ DIQUR Choice The North-Americaa Review recoup mends this publication as the most valuable , for Americans , of foreign journals .
Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Re pository for February * 1825 .
Lord BoUngbroke om the J \> H * * Pa&mge . I know not hoiv Captain P ^ ry has dashed Lord Boliagbroke ' s eloquence to piece a * Has the pas * sage in question yet been actually navigated ? Are not his Lordship's discouraging representations , to all
practical purposes , still true I ; . The , *< Faith of the Heart" Mr ; Wforsley ' s Ulustratious of this e&say are quite commendable , Mny I aol a < ld , that one reaaoa why examples of shniingvvirtue are so often waited to
revolting systems of belief is the fcJU lowing i The very act of admitidag absurd and repulsive doctrines implies a previous humility af heart , which is the bj ^ ia also of a th o usan d vir tues . Thus the excellencies of character
which we admire in bo many Calvin ^ fe ^« , flow not aeceasarify forth , aa tbey wrom ^ iy imagine , from the peeu * liftritiea or th « ir cz ^ eed . but aro often
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MmrnUy ^¦^ W »^ ^ = il WifeM |^ fingle propositioa of Calvjn addressed itself * otb # inpin ^> ; , ¦ ' ' xi ^^^ -, Another die tine tion ou , tlii 3 8 ul ^ ect must lie attended to , whicli I thiok Ja rarely obaerveij with accuracy . It will be seep in the preceding reoiark ^
that I do not deny great excellence of character to be sometimes the result of Calvinistic doctrinal peculiarities The question is are such doctrines therefore necessarily true a $ d scriptural i In other vvords ^ are the wcwrai effects of any opinion , in individual cases , an exact criterion o | its ^ lith ?
I maintain that they are not . iflt u $ take for instance the doctrine of elec * tiofk * Convince a man that the omniscient , all-wise * adorable and glorious God has from past eternity sent forward his awful regards , and selected him from among millions of his fellow-beings who are doomed to perish ,
while he is destined to an eternity of inconceivable felicity— -and pray what is to be expected as the natural effect of such a conviction on a mind of any purity or sensibility ? Clearly , tQ awaken the most profound gratitude ^ God ^ a mysterious reverence for one ' a self , and a deterrojinednesa to
act up to the lofty destination which liaa thus been the eternal and , special care of heaven . Now that some miiida have been affected in this manuer , is no more a testimony in favour of the doctrine of election , than the mod
behaviour of my child for .. at ^ jtay ^ w consequence ' of his nursed pyopise that he shall go to court to-morrow and be presented to the King *> i Mnr gland by the King ' s , desire > is ^ | Mroof of tbe nurse ' s veraeiiy . Until lhi $ consideration occurred tq me . ^ I ,-have
AUt seWaan been atagg-ered and per * plexed by the undeniable difference which is verjr frequently witnessed be * tween the depth of Vmtoriaa » nd Calvini&tie piety . I could not but feel convinced that our opiaiona were ea * sentiaUy and incoatrovertibly tcufc ;
aud yet , I would ask myself ; aim it was puahed home upon me also by orthodox firieiwfa , Why do not these opioious , wluch are freest from eftor , exert , in all eases , the moat positive aad , lasting good effects f An 4 then , some : instance among out miitu ^ l a < v quttintances would be adduced , to give point afcdi force I ta ttm mwgaua&xfc
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1826, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2546/page/12/
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