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      encrcase diversity of opinions ; as articles made in th « $ ays of bigotry by men wher had no critical skill in the Scriptures , to fetter the

      ages of learning and free enquiry . And yet for bOOL per annum , or less money , there are men who will subscribe , who will contend for subscribing to these same articles , whether ministers believe them or

      not——Pudct haec opprobria— . I am pleased that I have had the happiness to see you once . I shall nfever see you more in this world . I anv delighted with the prqspect of meeting you ia a better state , where there are ao

      subscriptions to articles required , no bigotry , nor any thing to grieve or offend any more . With great esteem for you , I am , Yours sincerely , GEORGE BENSON .

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      Future State of Infants on the Calvinistic Schema ., Dec , I , 1812 * - SlR ^ The tetter-writer whom you copy ( vol . vu . p . 68 % ) supposes that modern Calvinists confine

      salvation to the dead infants of \ the elect . I rather think they indulge -a vague , unauthorized' notion , that all who are born to die in infancy were included in the covenant of election . Thuj the famou * assertion , that there are

      infants in hell of a span fongai is given up as the rant of sornewiM fanatic * Yet it is remarkable that Baxter ^ whq $ e scheme has been

      supposed to soften the rigours of C ^ iy ^ oi&nx , in <; h ^ tid to the ifnmerciful- j ^ oticm <^ a \ hp subject of infa jgm&k ^^ h . \ : * > - ;^ W x '

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      I have a very small volume ( 1655 >; entitled A Sermon of Judgment , preached at Pa >// V , * fc ^ fore , the Honourable Lord Maibtr and Aldermen of the City of London , Dec . 17 , l 654 > and now

      enlarged by Richard Baxter . At p . 33 , is the following passage : rk 6 Obj . But how shall Infant * be judged by the Gospel , that tveft incapable of it ? Answer , For ought I find in scripture , they stand or fall with tAeir parents ,

      and on the same terms . But I leave each to their own thoughts . " At p . 150 , Baxter affords the following crurlous specimen of theological sp ' eciaf ~ pteading ~ c * Th 6 eight . and-twentieth exctise , How could I be saved if' Christ did not die for mat tie died but f ® r hi ele ct * and none could Be sav&H

      without his death . Answer ; Be did die for you , and for mor ^ thfaa his elect ; though he absolutely purposed only their salvtition . ** This reminds me of " a verse ill which one of the Wesley & exposed the moderate Calvinism of their time — ¦'¦ "

      He did not do the , ruthless deed < . » Some have more , miLily rav'd ^ God d-d not damn them , but decreed They never should be sav cL Is not Kbe s&mt said in prose , by the able&t m ^ 'dcrn ^ advocafe < ^ ' fo ^ Calvini ^ ni ^ Whan I in ^ louk ^ 4 i uto Dr ,. \\ f ^ liain ^' s lie p ly to J $ * Bishop . 0 fyt 4 incoljt , he app ^ an ^ xne to r

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1813, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2427/page/25/