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    seems to have been , while in the church of Rome , of the order ot the Jesuits , wrote a tract on the Bangorian controversy , in vindication of Hoadley and of a complete Toleration . In this tract , Mons . Pilloniere complained " of the smallness of the number of those Protestants in general , who had gone upon the true and only defensible principle of the Reformation ,

    that ts , who were against persecution ; and , among others , he seemed to reckon the Dissenters to be friends to persecution - He expressed likewise his judgment , that the extreme smallness of the number of those who were for toleration and against persecution , was the only reason why the reformed re ~ ligion did not more prevail in the world * . " In his zeal against Persecution . he observed ci that he could easily believe * that

    there was an hypostatical union of the evil spirit with those men who pleaded for it . He charged the reformers , in general , with a persecuting spirit , and remarked that their conduct was the great subject of the tears of true Protestants ^ as well as the too just occasion of the triumphs of the Papists . " He accused Calvin of the murder of Servetus , and represented him

    as acting like a devil incarnate . " In conclusion ^ he said ( in language not dissimilar to , but much stronger than Mr . Ros- * coe ' s ) , that Ci he dare not determine , whether the reformation Irad received more good or harm from their doughty acts / 1 ' meanings the acts of the reformers .

    This intrepid writer drew out Dr . Snape , one of those men who invariably oppose whatever tends to the improvement of the human mind and the happiness of society—who , not content with reviling M . Pilloniere as being a hypocrite , and still a Jesuit , criminated the Dissenters on account of their silence

    under his charges against them and their idolized reformers . 4 fc Awake 3 ye Calamys , ye Pierces-, ye Bradburys ! What ?— - all in a profound lethargy , when your own honour , and that of Calvin , is thus at stake 1 Awake , ye sleepers ! " In reply to Snape , Pierce wrote the letter in question ; the concluding

    part of which I shall now extract , subjoining to the quotation an inquiry or two , which , with the whole of this , I should be glad to sec inserted in the next number of the paper you have promised , under the name of the Inquirer , a paper of-which I am sorry to observe we have had but one number .

    c Some of our reformers , ' tis certain , were of an eager and warn * temper , and too liable to be charged with persecution ; and Calvin cannot be cleared in this respect . I cannot imagine what can deserve / the name of persecution , if the putting Michael Servetus to death for / beiesy does not , which } et was by Calvin ' s advice and instigation .

    * See " Mr . Pierce ' s Reflections upon Dean Sherlock ' s Vindication of the Q > $ >« poratign and Te t Acts , ' p . 43 .

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    51 $ The Inquirer .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/16/