Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon].

  • Robert Chambers
Date:
1844
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    unfolded does not imply the most perfect con- ceivable love or regard on the part of the Deity towards his creatures. Constituted as we are, feeling how vain our efforts often are to attain happiness or avoid calamity, and knowing that much evil does unavoidably befal us from no fault of ours, we are apt to think this a dreary view of the Divine economy; and before we have looked’ farther, we might be tempted to say, Far rather let us cling to the idea, so long received, that the Deity acts continually for special occasions, and gives such directions to the fate of each individual as he thinks meet; so that, when sorrow comes to us, we shall have at least the consolation of believing that it is imposed by a Father who loves us, and who seeks by these means to accomplish our ultimate good. Now, in the first place, if this be an untrue notion of the Deity and his ways, and that it is so has been amply shewn, it can be of no real benefit to us; and, in the second, it is proper to inquire if there be neces- sarily in the doctrine of universal causation any peculiarity calculated materially to affect our hitherto supposed relation to the Deity. It may be that, while we are committed to take our s2
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