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DISCOURSES

ON

UNIVERSAL RESTITUTION,

DELIVERED TO

THE SOCIETY

OF

PROTESTANT DISSENTERS

IN

Lewin's Mead, Bristol,

BY JOHN PRIOR ESTLIN, LL.D.

That to the height of this great argument,

I may assert Eternal Providence,

And justify the ways of God to Men.

Milton.

London:

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FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

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AND B. BARRY AND W. sheppard, BRISTOL,

MDCCCXIII,

DISCOURSE I.

1 John iv. 8.

GOD IS LOVE.

FRIENDS of my life! It is my sincere wish, that at the close of my services among you-an event which cannot be very distant, and which may be very near-I may be able to say, "I have not shunned to declare unto you the whole counsel of God." When I inform you that I shall not experience this satisfaction, if I shall have neglected to lay before you, more in the detail than I have hitherto done, my matured sentiments on a subject which, next to the doctrine

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