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Thoughts on Missionary Societies $ fc
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femoesnee ; man must have been Lktbte * to accidents , from his very ftaase and constitution , though we iupre reason taKbelieve he was then in tk& , possession of sufficient means to prevent their fatal effects , of which at present we are entirely ignorant : that nevertheless in our fallen state , the Deity hath graciously provided many remedies , both in the contexture of our animal bodies , and in the science of medicine , that a broken bone placed in a due position , will
unite of itself j that a deep wound , wiR , in common cases , if properly closed , heal without any further trouble ; and a deeper still , attended with toss of substance , by suitable management , be gradually restored : that there are medicines adapted to every
© Egan of the human frame , to assuage the raging fever , to brace the debilitated fibres , to remove or tranquillize slight pains , and imperiously to command r a truce in the most grievous sufferings tbak " flesh is heir to */ that sickness often ends in confirmed
health , and that " to the righteous , death is the gate of life . " i 3 Ebat ; moral evil arises from the $ iegleci or abuse of our rational fa-Cttities and voluntary powers , which eyery man knows and finds b y his « vn bitter experience , and which , as fear as he has been a means of
producing , he has no one to blame for but himself : that the sufferings which we endure from natural evil , or from the moral evil of others , often tend to our own good , and will serve , if patiently borne , to increase our future reward ; and that the Deity hath provided for the reduction of the fatter , by means of religion : that we
have reason to think it is gradually de--creasing , at least as to some of its ^ prominent and flagrant enormitiesj&uoh as war , tyranny , persecution , and Jritavery . ; that , in this view , even the $ « Cttseut world may be approximating ifo . a paradisaical state ; and that the ^ Almighty hath doubtless prepared
nphiwwni ^ ^ ir f - i . i - - - - - - - ^ rjth' ^ liini , is uncertain ; but the writer jl&s often heard ( otherwise ) sensible per-• sons inquire , why Providence should suffer gife ancient tenement to fall in upon its inhabitants , or good men to be ship--wreck ^ A ^ -burnt , or drained ! The argu-^ neot b ? w * aj » o been lately alluded to in $$ tyft w ^ rf * ty th « ? eloquent Mr . Howe .
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means for this purpose , in tbe depth of eternal ages , of which , at present ^ we can form no conception . That the evil of imperfection is tn ^ cident to all created beings , and indeed inseparable from their very natures that it is probable the subltmest im
telligencies have passed through a state of trial before they arrived at their supreme felicity , because holiness bjr influx , or without the co-operation of our own powers , would make a rational being a mere machine , which , though it might indeed render hiiii happ } % could never constitute him a moral
agent , or worthy of praise ; and that though none but God is impeccable * yet , by long established habits of virtue , a perfect freedom from temptation , and the benefits of correspondent society , rational beings may attain to a state ^ holiness and happiness , from which it is mo / ally impossible that they should ever deviate : and that this is the state we call heaven , * which is first a
temper , and then a place . " * :, That the happiness of heave&v * £ 4 fc will be proportioned to our attain ments and the improvement o £ x > tif talents , hath the nature of anre ^ tf&f&f but as it is the possession of drniriorlst life , is a « ' free gift /* and the re ^ toratiferi , through Jesus Christ , of ^ a forfeited inheritance . ; •¦ '> ' - *"¦¦ - , *
He will teach them that io pontem plating human nature we should equally guard against a pharrsarcal pride and a false humility ; fcbit tine gospel clearly ascertains what reason suggests , that man is placed here asia . candidate for futurity ; that he » b
compound being ; that by his capachfy for religion and his virtuous affections he is allied to the angels , by his animal propensities to the brutes , by the vice * of the spirit—pride , ambition , envy , malice and revenge , to something which men have generally agreed to term diabolical < that from this wonderfal
composition result great dangers and prodigious hopes ; that though bad habits have often a fatal , and good ones a transforming efficacy , yet neither ^ of them have a necessitating influence : That the Deity hath " gifts even ibr the rebellious , ' * and much' monribr
those who love and serve him , to whom " he will shew the sticreit « 6 f his covenant : " that though true ^ "r ^ - ¦ ¦ ' ¦" " ' " ' s- ; " ' . 1 ' . ' UMf f . # Whiclicgtc , T
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/29/
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