The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1791-01-29 00:00:00, page 1

As there are many Accounts
and Notes of hand of long
standing, on which balances
are due to said Eftates,(the set
tlement of which has been too
long negle&ed) and as it is
indispensably necessary they
should now be adjusted; those
I who negle& this notice until
■ the 20th day of April next,
are hereby informed, that the
I fubferiber will be under the
■ necessity of calling on them in
I a manner very disagreeable to
■ him and expensive to them.
' r' ^pTbofe who cannot make im
mediate payment are requeued to
)adjuft theirs Accounts and Notes
before >that time/<
JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN,
Executor of the las mill of Daniel
Gilman, Esq. deceased —and Ad
miniflrator ofthe efate of Nicholas
Gilman, Est, deceased.
Exeter, January 2oth,t79b t (6th m.)
:STRAFFORD^—SS."^
TH EiCommiffioners ap
pointed to receive and ex
amine the claims agaiqft the
estate Os Aaron Sanborn,late
of Sanborntoh, in laid county,
gentleman; deceased- —give no
tice-—Thatfa montbs from the
29th December daft, are fur
ther allowed for that purpose
—and, that they will attend
that bufineft at the hbufe of
Major Nathan Taylor,- in said
Sanbornton, on the firfl Tuefe
)day of February next^and the
four following months, from
2 to 6 of the clock, afternoon.
Sanbornton, 4/6 .
Old and New-Emission Money
Wanted: ' ?
PASH arid the highest price
1/1 given for Old and New-
Emission MONEY. Alfo,—
Continental and State
SECURITIES,
BY S. WIGGIN.
^te^ Jan. 1791. _—-
BLANKS.
BLANKS, of various kinds,
for sale at this Office.
ALL persons having de
mands against the Estate
of Daniel Gilman, Esq. or
Nicholas Gilman, Esq. or
the late Company of Nicho
las and Bartholomew Gil
man, all late of Exeter, de
ceased, are hereby requested to
exhibit the fame and receive
payment.
p^Thofe who are indebted
to either of said Estates, are
(once more) requested to make
immediate payment.
Newhampfhire
SATURDAY, January 29, 1791.] '
EXETER, (New-Hfyire) Printed and Published by HENRY R^L^T^N^^^
, TO BE SOLD BY:
Ward C. Dean,
, A General Assortment of
Iron IVare.
ALSO—,
Fuftick,;, Verdigreafe,
Logwood, Allum,
Redwood,, Otter,, Q,.
Camwood,,, Indigo
Oil-Vitriol, Cream-Tartar,
Roman-Vitriol, Raisins,
Copperas, . Malaga Wine,
Prefs-Paper^,
White and Red Lead—Spanish
Brown —Bar- Iron,.and Steel.—
All of which will be Sold very low for
. CA S H.
ty^Wanted by said Dean,
Shipping Furs,
For which—CASH —
Englijh or Weft-India GOODS
will be given..
Exeterffan. 179!. - ° / -
TO BE SOLD BY.~. ; :
GILMAN and LAMSON,
at their STORE Tn Exeter,
A few Quintals of ; ^
Beft DumbFiik
A Quantity of Good FLAX
A is wanted at the Duck
Manufatiory in this Town, for
which CASH----
Englijh and Well India
GOODS
will be given by
THOMAS ODIORNE.
Exe^% December 2, 1790.
ALL, persons having de
mandshgainft the estate of the Rev.
WOODBRIDGE; ODLIN, late of Ex
eter, deceased, : are desired to exhibit
them—and those indebted to make im
mediate payment, to
ELTPHALET HALE, Adminift'r.
Exeter, Dec. 1790. , [de bonis non.
ALL persons having de
mands against the eftatd of ABI
GAIL ODLIN., late of Exeter, Widow,
deceafeifo are desired to exhibit them—
and those indebted, to make immedaite
payment, to; ; ;
ELIPH'T HALE, Ad^toi.
Exeter, Dec. 1790.,
AStray Barrow PIG came
to the hoofe of the subscriber, some
time in November laft,' weighing about
too wt. The owner may have him a
gain, proving property and paying char
ges, by applying to widow +•
' "DOROTHY KIMBALL.
Exeter, Dec.go. !!
WHEREAS SARAH my
Wife, has behaved in a very unbe
coming manner, and threatened t< injure,
and run me in debt, this js to,forbid all
persons trufling her on my account, as,l
am determined not to pay any debt flic
may contrad after this day, ,
JOSEPH Gordon.
Inter, December 24th, 1790.
Dumb -Fifa
FLAX.
rtra^fy^
THE
AL L persons having De:
mands against the estate
of Thomas Elkins, late of
Hawke, gentleman, deceased,
are desired to exhibit them —
And those indebted to faid' es
tate are desired to make speedy
payment —to
THOMAS ELKINS, and ) Executors
JEREMIAH ELKINS, fofbi^ill.
Jan. 174 b, 1791. ~"
*^^^ Wanted to hire,
ent DWELLING
HOUSE —one in the centre of
this town will be prefered.
Enquire t, tbe Pr^ Exeter.'
Mr. Ranlet,
Please to give the following a place in ,our
paper : It may, by the bleffng of God,
force as a means to put more honor on him,
and bit son jefus Christ.
IWAS looking over your paper the
other day, and happened to fee a
piece which doomed mankind, after
the, depart this life,either to rcerlafog hap
piness ; or everlading miferj. The rea
son that I take upon me to show, accor
ding to the light of nature, that the pu
nishment of the wicked will not be ever
lasting, isbecaufe God is Love.
As the firft cause of all things is infi
nitely benevolent, tis not easy to con
ceive, that God Almighty Should bring
mankind intd existence, unless he intend
ed to make them finally happy. And
if this wag his intention, it cannot well
be supposed, as he is infinitely intelligent
and wife, that he should be unable to
projefy or carry into execution, a scheme
that would be effectual to secure, sooner
or later, the certain accomplishment of
it. Should it be suggested, that free a
gen<£ as men are allowed to be, must
be left to thei rown choice; in conse
quence whereof,, blame can be reflected
justly °no White bat upon themselves.
If then hlppinefi is put into their own
power, they chufe to pursue those courses
which will end in mifefyf, The answer
is bbvious : TheirJCreator, being per
feQly benevolent, would be disposed to
prevent their making, of at least, their
finally perilling in Inch wrong choices ;
and, being infinitely intelligent and wife,
would use suitable, and yet effectual me
thods,in order to attain this end.—Should
it be' said further, such free agents as men
are may oppofe.all the methods that can
be used with them, in consistency with
liberty § and peifift in wrong pursuits,in
consequence of wrong 'determinations, to
the rendering themselves finally unhappy.
' The reply is, this is sooner said than
proved. Who will undertake to make
it evident, 'that infinite wisdom, excited
by infinite benevolence, ii incapable of
deviling expedients, whereby moral a
gents, ,ithout any violence offered to
their liberty, may certainly be led, if
riot at firft, yet after various repeated tri
als, into such determinations and confe
guent anions, as would finally prepare
them for foppinefs ?. It would be hard
to suppose, that infinite wisdom should
finally be outdone by the bbAinacy and
folly bf any free agents whatever. If
this might really be the case, how can
it be thoguht, with refpe& to such free
agents, that they should ever have been
produced by an infinitely bepevolent
cause I If the only good uod knew (as
he shaft have known if he is infinitely
Intelligent) that some free agents would
make,themfelves unhappy, notwithstand
ing the utmost efforts of his wisdom to
preventit, why did he create them ? To
give them exiflence 4 knowing at the
fame time, that they would render them
selves finally miferable,<by abyfing their
" moral powers, in opposition to all that
he could do tb prevent is scarcely recon-
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cilable <iwith fopreme and absolutely
perfe& benevolence ; which in this case,
one would-be ready to think, mull have
withheld the gift of exiftehce.v
For whoever views mankind in their
present state f into which they came by
no voluntary aa of their own; but were
placed in it by him whois their Maker,
and will be their Judge, Subjed-to ig
norance and superstition, by a kind 'of
neceffity' of birth: and education—^fur
rounded with many natural infirmities,
and passions, arrifing from no crime of
which they are cotyctous ; and at the fame
time, considers the benignity of the di
vine nature, and the love of God to
wards his creatures (who are the works
of his own hands) of which the affeaion
of natural parents is but a faiot resem
blance, will easily fee that the condition
of man pleads strongly for mercy—that
Nature, with unutterable groans, calls
help and deliverance for her children ;
and that there Is great reason to exped,
from the goodness of Jehovah, (whose
tender mercies are over all the works
of his hands) that he will not be deaf to
their cries. Were it not for a just ex
pectation, from the promises of God,
thatjall the miseries and confusions in the
world shall finally end to the glory of
God,and to the good of the whole human
race. Had it not been so, reason tells
us that it would have been far greater
mercy, to have put an end to two
wretched lives, than to have continued
them, for, the propagation of wickedness
and misery, to a thousand generations.
Nor can it be thought, that the good
and gracious Jehovah would have fuffer
ed the world to have been filled with
weak, miserable creatures,had he not in
tended them for objects of bis mercy.
It does not appear to me that it would
be honorable to the infinitely righteous
and benevolent governoor of the world,
to make wicked men everlaflinglj misera
ble. For, in what point of light soever
we take a view of fn, it is certainly,
in its nature, a finite evil * ft is the fault
of a finite creature, and the effect of finite
principles, passions, and apetites. To
fay, therefore, that the tinner is doomed
to infinite misery, for the finite faults of a
finite life, looks like a reflection on the
infinite justice, .as, well as goodness of
God. I know it has been often urged,
that jforis an infinite evil, because com
mitted against an infinite cbjea ; for
which reason, an infinite pnifemeni is no
more than its due dejert ; ; But thi^
metaphysical nicet, proves, a great deal
too much, if it proves any thing at all.
For,according to this way of arguing, all
sinners must luffer to the utmefl in degree,
as well as duration ; otherwise, they will
not fuffer / o much as they might-do, and
as they ought to do : which is plainly in
confiftentwith that difference the fcr pture
often declares there shall be in the pu
nishment of wicked men, according to
the difference, there has been in the nature
and number of their evil deeds.„
The fmallnejs of the difference between
those in this world, to whom the cha
racter of kicked belongs in the lower.
sense, and those to whom the character
of good. is applicable in the like sense,
renders it incredible, that such an amaz
ing g reat Difference (hopld be made be
tween them in ,he future world. The
former differ from the latter, by a dif
ference as to us,,fo imperceptible, that
it is, perhaps, impolitic we should be
able so much as to diffinguifh the one;
, from the other, with any manner of
, certainty : and yet, the difference be
tween them, in the other world, accord
ding to the common opinion, wil)-be
.doubly infinite ; for the good are screened
from infinite mi/er, ? and rewarded with
; infinite bappineft ; whereas the wicked are
excluded from infinite bdppinefs, and
doomed to infinite miser,. For the ~•
quard and punifoment, being both eternal,
however jtaall they may be fuppofed.{q
be in each finite portion of time, they
mug at last become infinite in magni
tude. How to reconcile this with, the
absolutely accurate impartiality of God,
is, I confess, beyond me.
(For Remainder fee las page.)