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    principal literary characters there , and who happening to be in York at the time , accompanied me to one of these lectures , that she was astonished to find that Unitarians held the gospel in such high estimation , or , to use her own words , " made so much of it : "

    she expressed the greatest satisfaction in the discovery , it being the constant endeavour of their popular preachers to denounce Unitarians as complete unbelievers ; and adding , that were it in her power to attend the ministry of a Mr . W . at Edinburgh , she should be a very constant hearer .

    I am sorry , Sir , to take up so much room in your valuable pages ; yet , availing myself of the privilege of declining age , I must beg leave to add my ardent wish and fervent prayer , that Unitarians , like their venerable

    predecessors of apostolic memory , may pass unmoved through 4 t evil report and good report , " and " not be weary in well-doing , " knowing assuredly , that ** in due season they shall reap if they faint not /' C . CAPPE .

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    lation is more desirable than that derived from natural religion ? Many of your readers would be glad to hear him on this subject . Hid acute mind must view this subject on every side * I should be glad to conceive that the gospel is indeed glad tidings for the human race , but I fear the revealed

    state of the human dead revived , is not very cheering . 1 cannot see , with the author of Apeleutherus , any evidence in nature of tbe infinite power , wisdom and goodness of the Creator ,

    nor does such evidence present itself in revelation . Taking human nature as it is , there is , or appears to be , at least a limitation to human suffering-, as the continuance in life is in some

    sort voluntary to every human being . Now look at revelation . Does not an opposite and more dismal view present itself ? Infinite goodness ! Does it not more look like infinite malignity ? The demonology of Shaftsbury ? I could wish to see revelation assume

    a very different attitude , and it is from your readers , the only Christian sect who are at the same time reasoning philosophers , and especially Mr . Cogan , that I seek satisfaction * HOMO .

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    Lambeth , Sir , March 30 , 1819 . HA VING , in a former letter , [ p * 82 , ] made some remarks on the notion of the indiscriminate sufferings of the wicked in a future state , as

    indefensible upon the principles of reason and Scripture ; as a doctrine of deformity , which few care to own , and which those who seem to espouse , appear to be ashamed of 5 and also * oft the doctrine of annihilation , as attended with insuperable difficulties ; I should now proceed to consider

    what may be sty ted the modern orthodox doctrine upon this head ,, but must crave leave to premise a few reflections on behalf of " the liberty of prophesying , " or in plainer language , the liberty of preaching and inculcating ( apprehended ) religious truth .

    It is said [ p . 86 ] that the drawing inferences from the acknowledged principle of the goodness of God * according to our conceptions , "is aft amiable and a harmless mistake ( if mistake it should ultimately prove )* If this objection relates to particular events and circumstance ** in time *

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    On a Future State . *—On Final Restitution . QQ $

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    Sir , rriHE Letter of Mr . Cogan , in your JL last Number , [ p . 221 , ] on the subject of the evidence of natural

    religion , as stated in the volume entitled Apeleutherus , is a pleasing proof of the union of the clearest logical mind , with the highest attainments in philology ; an union which has not been

    very common . Mr . Cogan gives us the result of his inquiries , on this subject , into the opinions of the most eminent philosophers of Greece , which is , that they came to no higher conclusion , than that there would either be no future

    Mfe , or that that future life would be something better than , the present . This , no doubt , was far short of certainty ; but yet , what is the doctrine concerning a future life of Christianity ? Admit the affirmation of a future life

    as a certainty , is that certainty desirable ? Is it not much less desirable than the doubtful tenets of the (* re-<* an philosophers ? Is it not the clear doctrine of revelation * that there is a

    state of dreadful and unutterable suffering for a vast majority of the human race ? Will Mr . Cogan controvert thia ? Why then does he thiiik the evidence of « future state from reve-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 293, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/13/