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• ease- He informs us that a few years ago the American government interpoaed to prevent the concourse of fa&t enthusiasts in the back settlements of Pennsylvania : the government was alarmed for the interests of peace and morals ; but its interference was probably occasioned by some previous instances of disorder and suffering from persons abandoning their families aud from the difficulty of a multitude finding subsistence in the wilderness . The Abbe ' s authority for this statement is u Perrin du Lac , Voyages dans les deux Louisianes . "
In conclusion , the author sums up the supposed number of Methodists , of various classes , in all parts of the world , in 1807 , and having stated that they amount to a million , —he dismisses them with the reflection , Poor human nature /
At the head of the account of the Seceders , or Scotch Separatists , are some sensible and useful preliminary observations , with regard to the Dissenters , of Great Britain- The Abbe
writes respectfully of the Bartholomew Divines , and stigmatizes Charles II . as the violater of his promises . Amongst the sufferers for nonconformity , he names Bunyan , who it appears is overlooked by the Continental
Dictionary compilers . It is surprizing , as the author remarks , that the Pilgrim ' s Progress has never been translated into French . Englishmen are commonly boastful of all that is English ; it may do them good to see the character which an
enlightened and virtuous foreigner has formed of their national church : — Although the Anglican church has tolerant men amongst its prelates , it has toany times tried to strengthen by persecution , the weakness of its arguments gainst the Dissenters . The British isles
* f * the country in Europe , where persecute is mare legally established than any *« ere else . Ireland has suffered inartyrj «> m for ages , because she is almost wholly ^ tholic . When the day of justice shall » f > me upon these countrieswhen
leg-isla-, ou » n harmony with reason shall have ^ tored to all n the inalienable equality c » vil and political rights , how unjust ?* absi "'d will the Test Act and that of ^ Premacy appear !> 7 Pp . 50 , 51 .
ou i d * fferent estimates made by h « k Ves and our neighbours of our Jtonal character , may be in great easure accounted for by the con-Nation , that when we speak of
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Britain we mean England and Scot * land , when they speak of it they mean England , Scotland and Ireland . Is the last-named country never to be a sound and reputable member of the empire ? After the Scottish sects , are introduced the Universalists or
Latitudinanans , as the Abbe denominates them . In this section of the work , the author frequently drops the historian to assume the controversialist , but we cannot compliment him upon
his success in this latter character . His anger betrays his fear : may we collect from his anxiety that the Universal Doctrine is making inroads upon the catholic ch urch ?
The Abbe here brings into view the advocates for the final destruction of the wicked , whom he names Bourneans , which we suppose we may render Finishers . Of the Bourneans , he specifies " John Taylord ( Dr . Taylor ) of Norwich , John Marson
( Mr . Marsom , our worthy correspondent ) and John Bourne ( Samuel Bourne jun . ) the same who has written against the eternity of torments in reply to Chandler . 11 ( P . 690 Against the doctrine of the Bourneans or Finishers .
the author decides most peremptorily , but he evidently supposes them not to hold a general resurrection . It may be some apology for him , however , that on this scheme , it would seem most natural and desirable that
death should be a finishing stroke to the wicked . We learn from the Abbe that Eberhard has maintained the Universal doctrine , in his " Examination of the Doo
trine concerning the Salvation of Pagans , or New Apology for Socrates , " published in 8 vo , at Amsterdam , in 1773 . HeVas answered by Huet , minister of the Walloon church at Utrecht .
Eberhard had reckoned our Tillotson in the number of the Universaliste , but Huet places him more properly amongst those who have raised doubts upon the subject .
In spite of his orthodox zeal , the Abbe displays his candour in giving the following brief history of the Universal doctrine j a doctrine which yet wants , a historian , but we should think can scarcely want one much longer : —
The error of the Universahats ^ who have been sometimes named the Merciful Doctors , is not modem . Censured iiert-
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RevieWs—Jjrregoire ' s Hisioire des Sectet Religiextses . 183
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/55/
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