Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-09-18

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your useful and widely circulated pa
per, you viii oblige friend to Che hui
man family in general, by inserting the
following queries:
Yours respectfully, q.
a teg seriou, questions 10 the Teachers
~ fsrasi,--As was passing through the
streets of large city, in deep medita-
ton, bcholdin3 the great activity Of
many shining gentlemen, aswell as those
OF the fairef sex, especially those in the
fbioom Of life, was led into the follow
ing queries, which | hambly request
some teacher in Israel Chat may find
himself capablo9 to answer We know
that wise builder, when he is about to
erect any building, prior to his striking
one stroke towards that building, he is
fixed in his intention what to perform;
the plan by which he means to bring
abcut this performance is devised, and
the first stroke is expressive of not only
the builders design, but also that he in-
tends and expects to bring this design
into full execution; and, consequently,
makes tde necessary attempt. If he be
a wise and prudent builder, he viii, in
the first instance, duly weigh the "a
mount of the probable cost. which may
attend its erection; and, in the second
instance, he will put in practise every fa-
Guilty he may possess to remove such
distractions as may tend to prevent the
accomplishment OF much wished-for
object. In attempting 10 gain this point,
we are nost forcibly stricken with the
moral-"Many haya mocll'd him, (the
builder, and said: 'this man began to
build, and was not able to fa,sh.''
Qaers /. Must not God, who is the
builder of all Creation, in creating such
noble beings, which are superior in ma
t,lre TO all the rest of hislower creation,
have had some particular and Grand de-
sign concerning the final state of those
beings? o l. it possible for any being,
inferior to God, b. freedom of will, or
any tang else, TO prevent the accom-
p'ishnent Of that design, or to prevent
the completion of that which God in
tended to effect? No doubt many may
oppose, and thereby involve themselves
into ten thousand sorrows: but is it pos
sible for God finally to fail, or to have
any of his intentions frustrated? 8. Is
God, who is infinite in knowledge, capa-
BILE Of a succession Of ideas2 4. Was
1t essential to God to hate part of his
creatures, q. e. if there be such a thing
as some say there Isl or did sin, that
mean production of the devil, produce
such disposition in God, and SO cause
him to act towas@ some fhis creatures
in way contrary tSwhat he essentially
intended 8. If the DEVILS design in in
Producing sin into the world, was to ruin
a part or the whole of mankind, which
God originally designed for happiness,
and the DEVILS design should be effected
IN any wise, viii it not thence necessari-
ly follow, that Satan has manifested
himself more powerful in efecting his
designs than what God has in effecting
his? And if in consequence of this,
God should become an enemy to some
to whom he was once friend, will it
not follow, that the devil, by introducing
sin into the world, has produced change
Oh dlSposilion In God towards some OF
his creatures, while the devil himself re-
mains unchangeably the same in dispo-
sition that he was from tho bao;nningp
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mankind for whom Christ did not die,
can it be the duty of that part to be-
heve that Jesus is their true and full
saviour, and if they were to believe it
to be truth that Christ did not die for