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    sorted in the last number of your Repository . The second mistake is material , as conveying a sense

    quite opposite to my meaning . . Page 563 , instead of , V we are now in the infancy of the first stage of our existence" read .

    6 i we are now in the infancy , the first stage of our existence . " Page 564 , instead of , u this objection would be answerable on

    the supposition / ' read , " this objection would be-unanswerable on the supposition . " I have sent you the following additional remarks on P . K . ' s

    ijtter tor insertion , as soon as convenient , in your liberal Repository . < c One of the principal arguments , this writer says , for a deferred and future Judgment of the world by Jesus Christy seems to impeach the justice and , impartiality of Almighty God ' s

    present government of the world ; for the delay of justice is injustice , and that which demands

    amendment or correction , must be wrong . " Monthly Repository for January , 180 S . What the argument is which P . K- combats , he does not state , but leaves it to his readers to

    determine from the nature of his reply . I suppose he moans the unequal distributions of providence in the present state , which considered in connection with the perfections of the Deity , are

    often alledged as a proof of a future day of impartial account . I never heard however any one draw the conclusion from this argu ^

    ment , that Jesus Christ must therefore be neqessarily the judge t That he is appointed to this important office , the advocates for this doctrine , conceive to be

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    clearly taught by the Christian revelation , and to that alone they make their appeal . P . K . seems to me to confound two points , which are distinct

    from each other . Whether God will hereafter judge the world in righteousness , is one question , and" whether he has ordained Jesus Christ to administer judgment , is another . In discussing the

    latter , we necessarily go on the supposition of the truth of the former And on this point , it is admitted , that we can trace a moral government exercised over mankind , in the different effects of virtue and

    vice in the present state . The tendency of the one is to produce the happiness of those who prac tise it , and of the other , the misery of its slaves . But can it be denied , that this tendency is

    occasionally counteracted in its operation , by other causes ? Is integrity always attended with its due reward , and guilt with its merited punishment , in this scene of probation ?

    Solomon speaks of cc sentence against an evil work , not being executed speedily , and a greater man than Solomon represents it to have been" after a long time , cc that the master of the servants "

    to whom he had conjmitted talents for improvement in his absence , " came and reckoned with them , " In this state of trial , it appears both from history sacivil and prophanc , ancient and modern , and indeed from our own .

    occasional observation , that the vicious are frequently permitted to triumph over and cruelly oppress the virtuous persons " of whom the world is not . \ vi > tthy . " If then the Lord of the whole earth can do nothing but wh * it is fig ht *

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    606 Mr . Howe's Remarks on the Judgment of the World by Christ .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 606, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/30/