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    rm se < W £ M&P $ . ihewntomdmg tfee use of aiiataw ^** eaiitifii * an *? expressive hrasesi-.- whfeh compare the death of Jesos to a sacrifice trader the Jewish j a # Oar preachers have been afraid . ^ Jtmpajrififf to impose a specious

    orthodoxy upon fcfieir hearers . Bat it j s to be hoped that the time will shortly arrive , when a Unitarian will persuade his hearers to become washed in the blood of the-Lamb , and be understood as clearly as when he

    exhorts them now to yield their members a willing sacrifice to the Lord When we become more attached , in a rational , true and enlightened manner to such phraseology , we shall sympathize with Dr . Carpentef in finding ourselves more evangelical *

    On the Correspondence between a Cdvinist and Unitarian . A pair of original brothers I With respect to this correspondent ' s wishing" me to become an Universalist , I fear I am not good enough and do not think highly enough of mankind to become one soon . The wider the views

    which I take of the dealings and character of Providence , the more it appears ta me that the Deity , with all his benevolence , and all his wisdom , is implacably angry at something in creation . How much misery has he

    seen fit to mingle up in the elements of universal sensitive being ! How has he placed a dark side on all creaiion 1 Why is there fear in every bosom ? Is not God at every moment somewhere , frowning ? Does he

    not pursue us , whether we are good or bad , guilty or innocent , with a kind of awful vengeance ? The wave greedily , silently and darkly engulfs its myriads . The storm overwhelms . The fire devours . The earthquake crushes , mangles , swallows up . Society engenders infinite evils both of My and of miad . There , is not a

    scene of happiness on earth that will not be very soon broken up . Is it a false induction to draw from these , ai * d numberless similar particulars , t » e idea of one positive feature in the character of the Eternal ? Oh , who ^ tell , but Calvinism , after all , has hit up 0 the exact , philosophic truth ? dare not say to my Creator , You ill

    w be imiiicf \ f » ,, *» , ;^ flw » f ^^ ««¦ „*• 7 " unjust it you inflict an etermt of pain . I dare not so libel the Present order of things . I dare not Uv that pain is evil . 1 dare not prc-

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    scribe ho ^ ii tztle evil ,, in $ fca very nature of fhirtgfc , ; is mecessary to ' inak £ gnodj positive , aad to # ^ as' it were , mi ? essential re-Kef . I dare m > t

    draw imaginary , BJtofriatt and baseless pictures of existence . I know not what would become of the equilibriam af the universe , if the waste , wretched aisd sandv distance between

    Arabia the Fair and blooming Egypt were annihilated * I doubt whether there may not be at bottom some pusillanimity , raawkishness and false optimism , in the common representation * of the unmodified benevolence of the Deity . It is possible , they

    may have originated from kind-hearted , easy-fortiMied gentlemen , in whom the social principle has been carried to an extreme of morbid softness , or who sit over comfortable fire-sides , instinctively shrinking from the bare

    Mea of pain , and conscious that they wish all mankind well , and have cheerfully paid their poor-taxes , and relieved the last suffering- beggar that applied to their doors . Such persons are not the most lifcelv to take

    comprehensive surveys of all sides of the vast plan of creation . I cannot , until I have passed thirty or forty years of halcyon happiness and perfect virtue , amid a paradise of perfect being ' s around me , so far forget all former experience , and so far transgress all the laws of analogy , as precipitately to become an Universalist .

    Mr . Cogan on the words Ftryvsa-Ooct , &c . I am doubting- whether Mr . Cogan ' s appeal from a Greek to a Latin usage contain all that force and directness of analogy which oug * ht to satisfy a mind like his . I allude to his statement of the derivation of

    fuisse from ( jyuco , on which lie justifies himself for maintaining" the chang-e of primary meaning * in the aorist of yiyveaQai . Such an instance would undoubtedly have some weight , in

    conjunction witli other proofs , but whether it ought alone to he allowed sufficient importance to illustrate a purely Greek usage , is more than I can at present concede .

    His remarks on the word mystery possess his characteristic strength and acutencss . Mr . Bakewell on M ~ Malan ' s Bonk Let me aBk how much truth there" is in the assertion contained in the book on tho Manchester Controversy , that

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 745, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/45/