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      t < $ Htw gcfttlemcn who have encouraged the design , particularl y Or . Stonehouse . As to the difficulties he mentions ^—a P . [ prince ] may be considered in his public capacity or as a prmnte man . Though he be a bad man , I apprehend our prayers for him may be reasonable , that God would

      influence him to act for the general good ; but as to the making him a good man , we can only hope to be heard consistently with that wise constitution of God ' s moral government , that to him -who improves , more should be given . God will not at our

      most earnest prayers force any man to be good , nor break in on the liberty essential to moral agents on their trial ; yet in answer to prayers even for a bad man , he may indulge him in a larger trial , grant him more advantages , more -favourable restraints of his Providence and inward

      excitements , which , if he does not comply iVkh and improve , the greater nis guilt ; and this is no more than he does for the wicked son of a good parent , who , through the p iety of nis parent , and his good instructions , enjoys many advantages he does not deserve . As to his other case—' tis

      a good thought of Socrates , that what God has put it in our power to learn , by rightly using our reason , as mathematics , agriculture and the like , it is an affront to God to desire hirn to teach us , while we neglect to learn it , and might learn it otherwise .

      1 he Doc lor had therefore better teach his surgeons to cut a good issue in the thigh , and may expect more fruit

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      History of the Origin and Principles of - the IVehhahilcSy a Seel of Monhamtnedun H ( formers . [ From ** Travels of All Bry , " 2 Void . 4 to . Vol . II . pp . 128—133 . ] THE Scheik Mohamed Ion Abdoulwehhab was born in the

      environs of Medina . 1 never could learn the name of the place , or the exact period of his birth , which I have placed about the year 1 / 20 . He pursued his studies at Medina , where he staid several years . . Endued with an uncommon mind , he soon learned the minute practices of devotion introduced by the doctors , as aUo certain

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      from one good instruction given them " , than twenty prayers for them . My best thanks to him for hris recommendation of the little tracts I have

      published : few things w ^> uld give ttffc more pleasure than spending aik evening with him . But I hav £ filled my paper , and must subscril > e myself without a compliment , Your sincere friend , THOMAS AMORY . To the Rev . Mr . Brabant , at thr Rev * Dr . Doddridge * s in Northampton .

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      London j April 14 , 177 1 - Dear Sir , AM glad that my remembrance I of you has given you any spirits * and still more pleased that I ) i vine Providence has made your circunv * stances more easy and independent

      I have received five pounds for you # and you may draw on me as soon as you please . He cheerful , my friend ^ the time is near when the great question will be—not who got most money here , but who best employe * what he had ; and he will be tl * &

      happiest man for eternity , not who left the largest treasure behind biui on earth , but he who by dofng most good to mankind , but especially \ h their highest concerns , laid up- - ' the largest treasure in heaven . L ) ail y think of this , and act under the

      influence of this faith , and you will be happier now than a Nabob , arrd unspeakably happier for ever . 1 am , Rev . Sir , Sincerely your * s , " THOMAS AMORY .

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      superstitious principles , which le < i nina more or less astray from the simplicity of the worship and the morality of the prophet . Tliese additions , being no ^ thing more than an unnecessary and arbitrary burden to religion , ha < i nc « tl

      of a reform , as they impaired - ihe purity of the revealed text . In couso . quence of this , he took the resolution to reduce the worship to its pristine simplicity , by purging it from Uiese particular doctrines , and to- confine it to the literal text of the Koran .

      Medina and Mecca being interested in maintaining the ancient rites andcustoms , as also the popular prejudices

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1817, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2461/page/13/