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fend who is mentioned by Mr . Diuncombe , in Hughes ' s Correspondence , iin 139- If my recollection is correct , the absolutely solitary confinement , in the case of murder , recommended by this
writer , was adopted in the famous criminal code promulgated about thirty years since by the Duke of Tuscany . It is not easy to discern the real humanity of such a substitute for the punishment of death . There is more of Christian
benevolence in the following de . claration by Mr . Gilbert Wake , field , in his printed but unpub . Jished * Address to the Judges , ' 1799- . X- i 4 Were even a murderer
committed to my custody , I should endeavour to impress upon his mind a deep sensation of the in . justice and atrocity of his offence : I should labour to convince him
that exclusion from society was indispensable , not only for the good of the community , but for the prevention also of accumulated guilt upon his own head . Yet I would address him in the
kind language of expostulation and rebuke . I would regard him with generosity and tenderness . I would prove myself his friend by every exertion of sympathetic attention to his most calamitous
condition . I would shew that I loved the man though I abhorred his offence . If he were htfngr ) , I would feed him . If he were thirsty , I would give him drink . Nor bhould I depair of
overcoming evil with good ; of producing remorse unfeigned and substantial reformation , by this lenient and peaceful prbcess . Thus would my own benevolent affections be essentiall y improved , the great law of brotherly love , enacted in the
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gospel , fulfilled by a just obedience ; and a ' * brand plucked from the fire , '' to repentance and salvation /* ( Defence of Gilbert Wakefield , p . 104 . ) I cannot
quote this passage without recollecting the contemptuous surprise which 1 witnessed , on its delivery , among the iC idolaters of forms and precedents , " the learned gentlemen before and behind the bar .
P . 4 t ) . Luther s Light . This has been a favourite view of the protestant doctrine . I have , as a frontispiece to an Epitome of Ecclesiastical History , l 683 , a print entitled "The Reformation . '
Luther is represented at one end * of a table , surrounded by Reformers , whose names are over them , not without the licence of a few anachronisms . Before Luther is an open book , through which his name is written . On * the table is a
candle lighted , and at the bottom a cardinal , Satan , a pope and a monk , who are blowing at the candle , and complaining , " The candle is lighted . We cannot blow it out / ' The monk is at the same
time applying a short taper to a book in the hands of Tiiidal , evidently his Translation of the Bible . This appears to be the engraver ' s improvement on the original , which I happened to observe very lately in Queen Street , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields . The painting appeared * to be of considerable
age P . 49 . Conferences ^ Spc . The Reviewer of this sportive performance , the manner of which he justly disapproves , seems not aware ¦
of the origin of its title . Thfcliint was , no doubt , taken from an 8 vo volume , now before me , printed in 1719 , and emitted f < 'Thirty Four Conferences between the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 240, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/32/
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