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In the most material point of Christian duty , what right could he have to that appellation ? . To say that u the blasphemous positions of Servctus are too horrid to he transcribed , is proving nothing : such a mode of expression is a miserable salvo for the worst of conduct . Sensible inen are not likely to bs Daisied by such sweeping charges .
This very zealous defender ot the reformation plainly insifiu&tes that Mr . Roscoe is a Catholic ! that from those sources whence Protestants have " selected causes of peace , charity , and goodness , " he has deduced ' only motives of envy and
jealousy , hatred , and destruction ! " and that " there is no pro * ceeding so open and generous ^ no transaction so upright ,, no purpose so virtuous as not to afford food for" the mali gnity of his disposition . All this is clearly insinuated , if not expressiv asserted , of Mr . Roscoe ! Ci Besides / 7 continues
this writer , " what are we to think of men , furnished with such opportunities for coming at truth as modern historians are provided with , yet writing as Mr . Roscoe does on this very point ? He who with such means and opportunities can deli * feerately censure the Reformation , when witnessing its glorious consequences throughout Europe since the vear 1555 , must be
of a strange composition ! He who implicitly wishes for the restoration of the Ron ) an Catholic religion , with its inseparable concomitants , bigotry and revenge , must have a heart composed of stern materials ! Contemplating such a scene only in prospect , if he be not induced to sacrifice his passions to his duty , he must feel the influence oi principles detrimental ta
the general good of a free Protestant country . Finally , does not Mr , Roscoe himself now enjoy the leisure of a safe and honourable literary retirement , beneath the protecting shade of that very reformation which he thus rashly attacks ? In what can his virulence originate but in zeal without knowledge , united with enmity to the kingly authority of Jesus ' , and the best interests of mankind V t have given this extract
verbatrm , that it may clearly appear that this writer supposes , or at least wishes his readers to suppose , that Mr . Roscoe is a malignant enemy , not only to the Reformation , but even to Christianity itself ; that he holds principles detrimental to the gene * j ? al good of his country and the best interests of mankind—• insinuations as false a& they are wicked , malicious , and
ungenerous * but at the same time every way worthy of the defender of John Calvin . 1 cannot help supposing that this writer must have derived his knowledge of Mr . Roscoe's book solely from the Critical Review , the Orthodox Churchman ' s Magazine , or some other production whose pages are devoted to illiberally # nd abuse .
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$ 68 Defence of Mr . Roscoe .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/32/
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