An address to parents, on the subject of inoculation for the small-pox / By William Turner, jun.

  • Turner, William, 1761-1859.
Date:
1792
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An address to parents, on the subject of inoculation for the small-pox / By William Turner, jun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    c< choofe our own time of ficknefs and difeafe ? Can you, whofe bufinefs it is (C to prove that all things are fixed and <f determined by God, perfuade us that we may change the decrees of the Al- <c mighty ?”—-Now as for what God has fixed and determined, I do not prefume to declare any thing : in this refpedt, I fear we are far more peremptory and particular than becomes us. I believe, as firmly as any of you, that all things are appointed by the providence of God ; but this I alfo believe as firmly, that he has appointed all things with a reference to fecond caufes, or to that courfe of nature which he has been pleafed to appoint. As with regard to a future {fate he has fet good and evil, life and death, before us, to choofe for ourfelves as rational and moral creatures, fo alfo with refpect to the things of this world—our fubfiftence, our health, and our life, —he has manifeftly permitted us to lee the confequences of two different ways or methods of acting, and to make our reafonable choice accor¬ dingly. If v/e choofe right, we find the advantage of it ; if we choofe wrong, we are, fo far, fufferers.—Nay, he lias pur- pofely