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juid universal characters , " There is hut one God , who is good to all , for he is love . " By the aid of modern discoveries , it would be made most obvious , that the same attestations to the oneness and goodness of the Creator are impressed ou an animalcule as on man , on a grain of sand as on a world . What
then could be more likely to engage the attention aud warm the Jieart than essays on the accordance of natural phenomena with the best interests of man and the revealed will of God ? What can be more Interesting or important than shewing that every thing that God has done , as well as every thing he has said , aims at one object , and that object is the good of his creatures ?
Let the numerous facts be adduced which prove that the Universal King does not reign in terrors , nor desire to fill the subjects of his government with slavish dread and awful gloom ; that this earth is not a heap of ruins , converted to a loathsome prison-house for hated man ; that the mercies and love of heaven are borne cm the lightning ' s wing , uttered in the tempest ' s roar , and echoed by the earthquake !^ crash ; that these ch anges
which hurt or destroy a few , minister to the enjoyments and uphold the very existence ; of miHio us ; and that the Eternal Potentate legislates for all bis dependants at once ; provides now for countless generations to come ; and , as all things and beings existed in his view from all eternity , prepared even before the foundation of the world ; for the necessities and enjoyjnents of all his rational offspring in this estate , and for their happiness i in ( that' which is to follow * The
animal , the vegetable , and the mineral kingdoms , will readily lend their united aid in this gr ^ at work , and furnish the most clear and satisfactory evidence that ^ There ' s not a blace , nor deep , nor 1 Wgh , Where the Creatb * hath not trod , Arid left the imprest of otffc God . "
The statements on which such moral aud religious ' . reas o ning must be founded , and from < which the conclusions must be drawn , are , indeed , necessarily given in all our modern scientific treatises ; but in those works they are , as they ought to be * unconnected witli those
reflections and deductions which might accompany the very same statements in a professedly religious periodical . Writers constantly appear in the Monthly Repository who are well able so' to combine science and religion , so to unite the truths and prospects of the . Holy
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Bible with the laws and phenomena of ? nature , as to shake existingterrors , and to please , instruct , aud materially benefit very many of its readers . Amongst those who won Id rejoice to see some of your talented correspondents so employed , is your constant reader , HENRY CLARKE ,
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A Vision . "This is my commandment , that ye love one another . "—John xy . 12 . A rigid Calvinist , wlip carried the doctrines of his sect to their greatest length , excluding from the pale of salvation all those who differed from him on , doctrinal points , but whose error was one of the head , not oi the heart , aud who endeavoured faithfully to fulfil tie law of Christ , expired in Christian faitli
and Christian hope ; nor did they deceive him . No sooner had his eyes cjosed upon this world than instantaneously was the spirit at the portal of heaven iu full possession of its identity , and ! pf the power of communicating its . ; sentiments to a beautiful being who was ready to welcome the stranger , and to bestow upon it the celestial crown . A lovelier spirit than this Heaven did not contain as its inmate , norone on whom the
divine rays shone brighter . " Happy are you , " said th ^ new inhabitant ' of Paradise , addressing his heavenly gutye , " in having been one of those really $ nl \ ghtexied by the grace of God , one of # ios . e who , amongst the numerous y-ariety qf Christian denominations , was called into the only one that could lead to eternal happiness . " ? ' And what class of Christians are those ? " demanded the angel , iu astonishment . " When I dwelt in a
tabernacle of flesh I was what men below termed a Catholic . " The still prejudiced spirit exclaimed , " It was not surely possible for a Catholic to gain admittance into the realms of bliss 1 " " This heavenly badge shall answer you . that , " replied the cherubim , pointing to the refulgent crown that encircled her ethereal brow . The Caivinist spirit nowperceived that the Catholic's crown far exceeded his own in brightness and Ci
splendour . And how did you . get here ? " he immediately asked - " . By believing , in the Lord Jesua Christ , and keeping his commandments / ' w ^ s the short and simple reply . -, " But , friend , " continued the divine speaker , " dismiss , I beseech you , such earthly ideas as those you have expressed ere you enter the mansions of heaven * for such opi-
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Miscellaneous Correspondence . 717 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1829, page 717, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2577/page/45/
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