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tt % n obedience , « tr acceptable sen . vrce * They know that * without faith , k is impossible to please GUdJ as well as that the faith which is dead and not productive of holy obedience is unavailable both for salvation hereafter and for
justification in this life . Calvinists are persuaded that we should be careful and strenuous to maintain good works , and to discharge all personal and relative duties ; that no sin should have dominion over
us , and that we should have no fellowship with the unfruitful works t > of darkness , but rather reprove them ; They seek for glory , and hoAour ^ and immortality , by patfint £ < Hitinuance in well . doing *"
|> p . K > 9—HI . * = I am , Sir , Yours respectfully , VICINUS .
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Calvinistic Doctrine of Atonement * London May 9 > 1812 . Sir , Every friend to civil and religious liberty , must acquiesce in the
general sentiment in favour of that important measure , —rthe emancipation of the Catholics ; and i t will consequently give them pleasure to perceive the numerous advocates that have come forward in
behalf of that injured class of the community ) by means of the press . The thanks of all liberal . minded persons are due to you , sir , for the irlany excellent pieces with which you have favoured the public , from tithe to time * : * * and . iu * is ? to be
hoped , that at bo distant period , your endeavours , in caramon with , Ibe ot ^ ifer jvsa jijtorters ^ fireligMtas liberty , ^ ill be crowned with sue-* £ jfc&S f j £ ' - * f . ' . * i ; Li-WOl d" ^ ' l iliii ± But , hgyreijer every attempt pf individuals ^ * by ^ fai r ^ wgumen ^ j ; to promote such a cause is to be ap-
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plauded , any effort to strengthen it by abuse is toube condemned ; and I cannot ayoid suspecting , that your ie Old Correspondent * has chosen this subject , not for the purpose of vindicating the rights of the Catholics , but to cast an
odium upon another sect of chnstians— -the Calvinists , by misrepresenting their doctrinal sentiments * In reply to an objection , made by a gentleman , in the •* stage coach / ' to the Catholics being fully coachto the Catholics being fully
, tolerated , on the ground that their priests had the power to absolve them from their oaths , your " Old Cor respondent" remarked , " There are other professors of Christianity more dangerous to society than the Catholics , taking the matter
up on your own ground ; .. J ,. n * ean those who maintain that whatever crimes they commit , they have only to confess them , and to believe that another person was
punished in their stead , ajid by his righteousness they are made perfectly righteous , a&d are perfectly safe : God will behold no unrighteousness in them , " &c . , c
On perusing this passage , I confess , sir , my curiosity was raised to know what class of " professor "< bf Christianity'' your correspondent alluded to ; I had not thj * most
distant idea that the CalviqjftM vi ere the " mark aimed at « " Mgr indignation was roused , £ gaio $ t these , as Ii imagined ,. iBW . ^ Pfftfessorsr M iwhich your " QJjd & >«
-respoudei ^ tV i j h ^ i , exposed , ^ ji > db % t this w ^ s booo ohafigcci * tQ jinol ^ sentiment , whejn I tmti wtij&Mcfhz conclu 5 i < m . of the ^ t axlizlQj ^ 'mhmz ymixl coETe <|) Ondeut av ^ v ^ that t | ic theoltigjail tei ^ d ) j ^ Jip&gf sitl ^ W beforementioned , was the *? m&j& *?'
atu Mhkeh : ^ bbttofAi f i iHinrtB * Wthis llM gfelPiA ^^ i * t \ i * P ^ tS ^ k man , he had previously informed
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Catvinistic Doctrine of Atonement . 90 S )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/19/
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