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posing themselves by tfeeir deficiency . Hence it coulxl scares Jadl that the general character o £ the clergy would be mace re * epected , were the practice of preaching from plans universal * It will be objected ^ perhaps ^ that many of the irregular preach * ers who da not read their seraaons have , by their incoherence , their wild expressions and their ignorance , brought the preaching without a written sermon , into contempt : bwt it should be
considered ,, that they who have done so are almost universally illiterate men , amd that probably most of them preach aiu togetker without notes , and without having duly studied their subjects Such men as these certainly afford nx > fair specimen of preaching from notes ; nor can any just judgment be formed
of the effects of such preaching * by considering only the estimation in which their sermons are held . Were this mode imU yersally practised by men of education * ability and application to the study of divinity * it doubtless wonkl be regarded in a rery different light , S + J )« Efc .
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TBE IN 2 UIRE& . NO . 1 U MH * FIERCE AKD MONS , FILLONIERE O 5 sT C&L' * 'l 7 i * & PEESE * CUTION OF SERVETUS * To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , I am glad to see the question of Calvin ' s cuLpability , in th * melancholy affair o £ the murder of Servetus , revived by JVfe .
Roscoe , The repeated discussion of it , whether it bring out new facts or not , will at least tend to settle men ' s minds upon it , and to vindicate the much-injured character of an eminent martyr to rational religion . That this is the tendency of the discussion there can , I believe , be no doubt ; and at this
circumstance I am the more disposed to rejoice , because evea liberal # nd inquiring men have not always heretofore considered the matter with dispassionate attention , or done real justice to the parties concerned . I make this remark in reference to a pamphlet of Mr . Pierce r s , of Exeter , which touches on the case of Calvin and Servetus : it is entitled- — " The Dissenter ' s
Reasons for not writing in the Behalf of Persecution ; designed for the Satisfaction of Dr . Snape , in a Letter to him . JLoxuioi ^ 17 IS /' The occagioiLof the pamphlet was thi $ :- —Mons . Pillonier ^ , wj ^ o was ^ o ^ nvart frora popery Jo protestan tisni ^ and wbi *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/15/
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