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fl ^^ elt ^ aiitf p ^ fe ^^ f ^^ don . Eet &M i o $$ ? pixig c \ xtwso or thti present m record every ; ereriihg for a year jjj % ^ jdutriit all the privat e anecdotes apd ^ titirii ^ es ^ vh k-h Jie ga t hers in his ratribles , arid wiib will say that such a dbcttntent otrght not to be received by posterity mth very many grains of allov ^ ance ?*
On jffiUon * s Treatise . I have found it impracticable to dove-tail the ex « tracts introduced here with those iii another part of the present number . Review . Parr ' s Letter to Milner * The name of Milner , by whomsoever borne , possesses not the mildest savour with the lovers of ecclesiastical
troth and fairness . Milton ' s Treatise . Some Reviewer has disagreed with the present in regard to * the style of Mr . Sumner ' s translation . I know not that I should characterize it as stiff , but it did not f
seem to me to be remarkably * easy /' Obituary . Is there nothing * instructive , interesting and discriminative in the longest article under this head ? Would your correspondent from Birmingham , of a few pages back , complain of memorials like this ?
Intelligence . Long Arm of a Scotch Presbytery . A slight schism has been recently threatening the Presbyterian connexion of the United States . The Rev . Mr . Duncan , of Baltimore , having preached a sermon against the expediency of imposing creeds , the ecclesiastical tribunal , to
which he was amenable , proceeded to summary chastisement , and declared his pulpit vacant ! Happily , the consent of the congregatioh was necessary to the literal execution of this decree , and as it was impossible to obtain it , Mr . Duncan still preaches to his people , and the authority of Presbytery is trampled under foot .
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I kbwv of tobtffer fcfmfl&r vfee Irt tf&tr viciaity , and 1 believe the list ? U $ till larger . Johit-St&ch Companies . An occasional register of these companies ,
giving a particular account of their condition and prospects , would be an interesting and useful doeiiEnent . Bunker-fiill Celebration . Still to
ray mind but a pageant of yesterday , and will ever continue to be " as fresh , Duin memor ipse mei , dum spiritus hos reget art us .
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Sir , November 4 , 1826 . flT ^ HE criticism of your very candid JL and intelligent American correspondent , in his Synopsis for Sept . 1825 , ( p . 524 , ) relative to those fruitful topics of controversy , Necessity and Predestination , appears to call for one or two brief remarks .
Notwithstanding his acknowledgment of the full force of most of the objections urged against Dr . Copleston ' s reasoning , he is still at a loss to perceive the distinction between the fatal
ism of the ancients and the necessity of the moderns . Without examining at length the theoretic peculiarities of each , it is quite sufficient to know that the former of these doctrines
taught the absolute inutility and folly of adopting active measures for the attainment of good or the avoidance of evil . Supposing any event to' be decreed , it was impossible , they maintained , that any exertion of ours could ever prevent its taking place : and if it was not decreed , no human
efforts could bring it to pass , ihe determinations of Heaven could be neither hastened nor retarded in their execution by the powerless actions of
man , nor could ail the puny-machinations of beings like ourselves produce the -slightest influence on the regular course of nature . And what was the inference which the fatalist
deduced from these premises ? Since every thing in the universe was unalterably iixed , he insisted that it was the part of the truly wise man to remain entirely passive , however terrific
the dangers by which he might be surrounded , or whatever claims the calamities of others might appear to possess on his compassion . How different is the case with the doctriae of necessity , as it is now ex-
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* It is not , perhaps , known on tbe other side of the water , though generally understood on this , that l epys &Memoirs underwent a severe expurgation before toey were published , and that the matter occl
uded is more dishonourable to the L V ll | t of Charles \\ . ihau any that is retained . Even the Quarterly Review , we ^ reminded by a friend , though we had wRotten the circumstance , complains jj the degree to which the prunitrg knife ™ been used \ h this puMicatioH . Ebi-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 717, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/17/
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