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    says expressly , " that he learned obedience by the things which he suffered . " The { sufferings of Christ had nothing in them penal : they were such as a devoted servant of-God willingly underwent ,- in o <> der to discharge his duty , to henefit his brethren , to glorify his God , and ultimately to glorify himself also . I am not sure that I have been able

    rightly to apprehend the drift of the fourth query , but if I have , I should reply , that the fate of the ungodly does not appear more severe on the supposition of there having been no satisfaction made for any , than on that of there having been a satisfaction made for all . It is

    not more arbitrary in the one case to reject those who have failed to comply with the prescribed conditions of salvatiou , than in the other ; in fact , it is not at all arbitrary in either case . We are most positively assured that the final judgments of God will be a display of the most perfect equity , tempered by the greatest mercy : the several dooms of the children of men will present a most exact correspondence with their several deserts . On the one side we shall see

    the fulfilment of what is written , that not a cup of cold water , kindly given , shall lose its reward ; and , on the other , that for every idle word that men shall have spoken , they shall duly give account . Shall there be any thing arbitrary in that grand final court * of equity , which is expressly designed to set right all that has been arbitrary and unequal here ? It cannot be . Here let me be

    allowed to leave this subject . The Scriptures warn us concerning future punishment in terms the most awful ; and as they divide the world into two great classes , the just and the unjust , without . descending to those shades of character which fill the intermediate space ; so do they portray their future doom , as assigning them to heaven or hell , to

    salvavation or perdition , without any minuter distinctions . But although the prophetic word sketches only these broad outlines of so distant a prospect , we are not ( thereby forbidden to * suppose that a more complete delineation , or a nearer view , would bring infinite particulars to light , such as would display both the equity and the mercy of God in a perfection which we cannot now conceive .

    If It . M . shall find any thing in these suggestions of the least service in assisting his inquiries , I shall be truly gratified . T . F . B .

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    On the Want of Juvenile Publications . To the Editor . Sir , Your correspondent , Mr . John Mardon , ( p . 344 , ) fegrets , in common with many other Unitarians , the want of unexceptionable publications for the use of young persons , and especially of Sundayschools . However this is to be lamented , the fact is notorious ; and calls are loudly made to have the deficiency supplied . Mr . Mardon proposes a kind of joint stock company for the purpose of printing suitable tracts . But it appears to me more desirable to extend the usefulness of existifig institutions than to fritter awav our means bv establish trie- nfchers . ¦

    ~— — — — — — ^ m — — ^^ ^ -- ^ — — — - ^ - ^ m m - — — — — «^^ ^^ ^* r ^ r ^ " ^ ^™ ^ " ^^^ " ^ p ^ B ^^ r ^» ^^ ^^^ ^^ *^ rf ^ B possessing no apparent attraction beyond that of novelty . The Christian Tract Society professes to supply precisely the want complained of , and at least has an organization adequate to the end . In its Report of last year we are told , in allusion to a grant of tracts to the Finsbury Chapel Sunday-school , that " the individuals for whom the grant was solicited , are precisely of that description for whose benefit the tracts are published . " If the funds of the Christian Tract Society are inadequate to its professed objects , it surely would be well to endeavour to improve them ; and this , I conceive , might be done with a little exertion on the part of those , in particular , who feel the inconvenience complained of . There can be no doubt of the desire of the Committee to listen to any suggestions for increasing the usefulness of the Society ; and it is hoped that the knowledge of the want of publications will lead to a general effort to restore it to a state of more efficiency .

    I conclude with expressing the hope , that wliilst complaints are making at home of the dearth of tracts for the young , some use may be made of the admirable ones which have issued from the press of " The Publishing Fund , " ( professing precisely the same objects as the Christian Tract Society , ) of Boston , in Airierica . One of these only has been reprinted by the Christian Tract Society ; but a fund of valuable matter reftiains in store , which might be turned to good account in our own country . A SU 3 SCRIBER .

    [ Our correspondent seems to us to confound the want complained of , that of book * for the improvement and amusement of our more educated youth , with the objects of the Christian Tract Society , which is intended to provide for the poor . Ed . ]

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1828, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2562/page/59/