Excerpt from The Religious Opinions of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: As Expressed in Three Letters Addressed to Wm; Merry, Esq., J. P Inasmuch, therefore, as all who search the scriptures, ' or hear the gospel preached, find themselves therein instructed how to repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance' (acts 26, we may be firmly assured, that there does not live one human being, so taught, who is shut out from the pale of Christian salva tion by predestiny, partial favour, or any other than his own wilful and inexcusable unbelief (inexcusable, for it is beyond conception that man should be so earnestly appealed to, and encouraged to believe in God, holy and true, and yet not be enabled to obey the gracious bidding not one who is not equally and vitally interested in the offer of mercy, or who is denied sufficient means for the acceptance of that gospel which was preached to the poor, the'glad tidings of great joy which are for all people, ' and who has not grateful cause to join the 'heavenly Host' in their hymn of praise, 'glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill towards men.' It will be remembered that these letters were written three years before Miss Barrett married. She was then, as always, in delicate health, but evidently had recovered from the extreme prostration of previous years. To this recovery her friendship with Miss Mitford had in no small degree contributed. Cordial thanks are due to Mr. Robert Barrett Browning for his courteous permission to print these letters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.