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    At the same time , he shews , by references to Dr . Clarke , Bishop Butler and others , that those great men did not hesitate to say , " that according to the method and dispensation which God ' s wisdom

    has chosen , there results a moral necessity , of such vindication , founded in the wisdom and prudente of a Being , who has announced himself to mankind , as an upright Governor , resolved to maintain the observance of his

    laws / ' Or , in other words , "that the death of Christ was necessary , to make the pardon of sin reconcileable , not , perhaps absolutely with strict justice ^ but it

    was necessary at least in this re-« • • -lisped , to make it consistent with the wisdom of God , in his good government of the world ; and to be a proper attestation of his irreconcileable hatred against all

    unrighteousness . " - —See Dr . Magee ' s Discourses on Atonement and Sacrifice , vol i . pp . 23 , and 178 . A MODERATE CALVINIST .

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    Mr . Wright , on an Error in his Journal . Wisbeach ^ March l 6 9 1813 . Sir , * By a letter from a respected friend at Kendal , I find there is

    an error in the statement given in the Extracts from the Report of the Unitarian Fund , ( Vol . vii . p . 773 . ) The name of the mi . nister of the Unitarian Baptists at Kendal , is Kay \ not Cave * Mr .

    Kay and bis friends were never in Mr . Haldane ' s connexion , any further than they deemed it their u duty to receive as brethren all those who appeared to them to be holding and walking in the truth . " Nor were any letters exchanged

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    between Mr . Kay and Mr . Haldane on the change of sentiment , which took place among the friends

    at Kendal , as stated in the before mentioned extracts . I am anxious these mistakes should be corrected , by the insertion of this short article in the Repository .

    As Mr . Kay conjectures , I was led into the error which I have pointed out , by respectable friends at Newcastle , from whom I understood the account just as I

    stated it : they too , as Mr . K . further conjectures , were led into the misconception by the relation given J ; hem b y a worthy person from Kendal * through a misapplication of names .

    Respectfully , Yours , &c . RICHARD WRIGHT .

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    On a Passage in Mr * WrighVs Journal * Sir , In your Number for February last , ( p . 132 , 133 ) Mr . Wright has stated , that among the Unitarians

    in Lancashire and Cheshire , ic a change has taken place in the mode of preaching , and that the dry ethical method has given way to the preaching of Unitarianisra as the doctrine of the gospel . 46 Christian discourses , " he adds , Ci have been filled with the

    sentiments and language of the gospel . In this way , the best morality has been placed on the best foundation , evangelical righteousness on evangelical principles , ' *

    Formerly Sir , it was conceived , that nothing was more dry than theology , especially when it was interlarded with metaphysics , or presented in the form oi , texts detached from their connexion * for

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    On a Passage in 3 Ir % Wright ' s Journal . % 49

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1813, page 249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2427/page/29/