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the Unitarian doctrine and worship . Circumstances are much more favourable now than they were twenty years back ; then individuals had to act nearly alone ; at the most but a small number could be brought to
co-operate in any measure ; but now , not only many individuals , but associated bodies may be brought to unite their exertions , and their collective strength may be made to bear upon
any point which the good of the cause requires . That it should appear desirable for the Association to have the Repository under their direction , cannot excite the least surprise ; it is natural for the Committee to wish
that so useful an auxiliary should be modeled and conducted in unison with their own improved and extended plans , and be at their command as the high interests of the cause in which they are engaged may on every emergency require : and I both hope
and pray that this step , in connexion with the other plans adopted , may be crowned with all possible success ; that much as the Repository has already served the cause , the New Series may serve and promote it abundantly more .
Allow me , Sir , in taking leave of the Series which is about to close , to thank you for your unwearied labours and services as the Editor , and to congratulate you on the success that has attended your exertions , which have , in no small degree , contributed
towards bringing the Unitarian cause to its present promising and gratifying state . Wishing the New Series of the Repository an increasing circulation , and all possible encouragement and success , I remain , Dear Sir , Most truly and respectfully yours , &c . R . WRIGHT .
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¦ Du blin , December' 12 , I 72 & Deah Cousin , The last I had from you contain'd a complaint of the shortness of my letters : I am afraid , contrary to my own inclination and design , that this
will give you occasion to renew your complaint ; however , I thought it better to write little than not at all , Mr . Hardman , who carries this letter is now calPd away contrary to his and our expectation ; so that not expecting so sudden a summons , I have
not prepar'd a long letter for you as I intended . I observe , that in some of your last letters you enter upon some points that are sufficientl y abstruse , such as the doctrines of Election , Originall Sin , &c . The opinion you seem to embrace on these
heads is , I must own , contrary to what I apprehend to be the truth ; but I am not ripe for writing my thoughts on these subjects so particularly to you as I would do , till I hear again a more distinct account of
your sentiments , and of the objections you raise against the common doctrines . I think it is very clear from the Sacred Writings that there is such a thing as speciall distinguishing grace given to some of the fallen human race above others in time , and
that this flows from speciall love , and that this love was from everlasting . Whatever God does in time he decreed from eternity to do ; if , therefore , in time he gives special grace to some above others , he decreed from
eternity to do so : the true question , therefore , is , whether God gives all men equally of his grace , and the difference in their state arises wholly from their own different improvement
of that common grace ; or whether , besides a common grace , he gives to some that speciall efficacious grace whereby he actually and infallibly converts and sanctifies them , and ivill
cause them finally to persevere , so that they shall at last be brought to glory ; and whether this speciall efficacious grace of God given to some above others , is the true and proper cause why some are converted rather is
than others ; that is , whether it God by his speciall grace makes suelj persons to differ from others of equal naturall endowments and equall opportunitys , or whether it is tncy themselves that cause the difference ,
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722 Gtigina } Letter * of Dr . Jfohti Lettito&i .
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Chesterfield , Sir , November , 1826 . SHOULD you think the following original letters of the Rev . John Leland , IX IX , likely to gratify any of your readers , or to contain any
thing which it may be interesting to have preserved in u less precarious form than the original IVJSS ., I shall feel happy if they reach you in time to fye included in the present volume of the Monthly Repository . I \ A .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 722, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/22/
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