Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-04-12


came their first propensity to sin! What
ever cxpcdient DR.. Tyler may devise TO
account for the first propensity TO sin II
these creatures of God, one thing is GER
tain. viz: that being without father and
without mother, they did not become the sub.
iecs of such propensity by propagation"
I-.According TO DIR. TyIer's theory,
the divine lawgiver seems to have entirely
mistaken, in regard TO man, the proper OBJ
iect oflegal prohibition and penalty.-
| The radical evil, lies in the constitutional
propcnsitics which God has given to rpen.
The divine law, therefore, it would seem,
should forbid men TO have, and punish them
for having those constitutional propensi.
ties, which they derived exclusively from
their Creator" terms Of sal.
vaton, and the exhibition ol motives 70
comply with tllem,ar according tothe saine
theory, deusve mockery." The
true end only reason, according to this
scheme, why sinners arc lost, is. not that
they do not act, but that God docs not"
--"According to DR.. Tyler's theory,
what is commonly called Regeneration by
the Holy Spirit. is unnecessary. -
ITO sin, according to Dr.. Tyler, must be
the chief end Of man.---Man's chief
end is not TO glorify Cos, land enjoy him for
ever; and the Westminster Catcchisrn is
fatty coniradic:ed."
In regard to Dr.. Tyler's theory Of The
divine permission of sin, he says. "Row
is it that those are reproved, who SHUT up
the kingdom of heaven, and neither enter.
ed themselves, nor suffered others TO enter.
when according to DIR. Tyler, it would
prove a calamity, on the whole, had one
more sinner reached heaven than has
r.acncd ir.-How is it, that God says in
Isa. v. 4. that I've HAS DONE ALL THAT CAN.
BE DONE 10 bring sinners to repentance,
when he could do more if he would, and
would do more, did he not, on the whole,
prefer their continued sin, to Their repen.
lance? My child, says a father, never
steal-never |ie-I have 10 pleasure at oil
that you should, compared with beng hon.
est and true. But then, my Guild he pro-
cceds, { | greatly prefer. on the acho(e, that
you should steal and lie, at least, in
nine instances out of ten; .oi stealing and
lying in these instances, will be the best
things on the whole, which you can do;
and although shall do every thing that
can be done to secure your obedience 10 my
law, yet | could do much more il would;
and | would do it, if did not on the whole,
prefer your stealing and lying, to honesty
and truth. have therefore determined to
do that, and that oaly whi;ii will securs
your almost incessant stealing and lying,
because, OH the whole, these are the best
things you can do SUCH is God accord
ing to this Notwithstanding to
the theory of Dr.. Tyler, God prefers sin TO
holiness, and DEGREES its existence, hat
thereby he may show his mercy, in the SAL
valion Of IL part only of the human race,
and this, when he could hive secured tho
perfect holiness and happiness Of all, and
OF his entire moral universe, throughout
eternity. The case is this. A father
throws his own children, or permits them
to fall, from fearful precipice. when he
not only could have prevented them. hu;
uoould, had he not determined sorely TO
wound them all, and ultimately to destroy
many Of them, that he might show his mer.
cy, in healing the broken ZONES Of Others
in restoring item TO comfort and happiness,
and in lmparsng to them the peculiar jo,s
of so great deliverance! How is it, ac-
cording to the same theory, that God has
not in the true and fearful import of the
phrase, made large part of mankind, on
purpose to damn them !'--" To sin
and be damned 10 all eternity. is the resuh.
and the sole result in respect 10 the greater
part of mankind, designed, preferred, aud
purposed by their Maker. II this is not
creating men on purpose 10 damn them,
let any one tell what would bel
"This theory too, limits the goodness Of
God. God, according 10 DR.. Tyler, could
if he would, have secured the perfect holi-
ness OF this universe Of moral beings for.
ever. But the perfect holiness of all.
would have secured the perfect happiness
of all. When therefore God could, if he
,could, have made universe of perfectly
aoly and happy beings he preferred, de-
creed, and made one comprising sin aud its
everlasting miseries We ash IS this good
ness ?"--"Celestial Spirits, if they Ut
Ter truth in their songs, praise God-not be.
cause he vindicates his lag, and sustains
his throne by the punishment. Of beings
who haye violated every will of his
but for exactly fulfilling the sole purpose Of
their creation they praise God for that
peculiar delight-,hose higher and erquis-
lie raptures, which they could cnjoy only
by means of the agonies Of others in ever
lasting frc!-Dr. Tyler will have IT,
that a benevolent God could not be salts.
| fed with the perfect holiness and perfect
! h.rn;noce of all his moral creatures bnt.