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tofore in Oiigen , in Rethorius , it was again brought forward , in 1592 , by one of the most versatile men in point of religion , Puceius , in a famous work which he dedicated to Pope Clement VIII .- * and by Thomas Cuppe , curate of Bois , in the diocese of Saintes , if , indeed this name is not fictitious or borrowed , in order to give some credit to a dull pamphlet , reprinted in 1782 , under this title , " Le Ciel , &c . Heaven open to all men . " -f
Zuinglius who had professed the same doctrine , was refuted by Osiander , Lyserus and other Protestant divines . Notwithstanding-, this error , now spread amongst modern sects , has found partizans in them from the period of the sixteenth century , especially with the Dutch Mennonites and the German Anabaptists , all sprung from the same stock : from these latter have
descended the Tunkers , who have carried the same doctrine into America . Besides the writers just mentioned , it has apologists in Rust , bishop of Dromore in Ireland , Jere . White , Dr . Cheyne , Ramsay , in his Philosophical Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion , " Burnet , in his
work " DeStatu Mortuorum , " Hartley , in his " Observations upon Man , " Elhanan Winchester , the celebrated author of the u Dialogues upon Universal Restoration , " Stonehouse , &c &c . Every body remembers the noise occasioned by a sermon of the minister Petit-Pierre of Neufchatel .
Bitaube , who is just dead , had already insinuated this doctrine in his Examination of the Savoyard Vicar ' s Confession of Faith , " printed at Berlin , in 8 vo . 1763 , and which he has not thought proper to insert in the new collection of his works . This list , with the exception of Ramsay , is composed of Protestants only . " Pp . 78 , 79 .
The Abbe is eager to shew that he is not one of the Mercijul Doctors , but , as the short passage that follows will sufficiently prove , he displays no great dexterity in defence of the merciless doctrine of final , endless torments : —
" Protestantism giving its hand to Deism , to IndifFereiitism , opens heaven to men of all sects : after having- cried out so much against purgatory , a great numlter of its teachers , denying - the eternity of torments , stifle the fire of hell and are for no more than a purgatory . But in their system * to
* See c De Christi Servatoris efficacitate in omnibus et singulis hominibus , ' &c . in 8 vo ., 1592 : from this all who adopted his opinion were called Puccianists . " t " By the late Peter ( ' Pierre ) Cuppe , Sec . iiew edit , in 8 vo . London , 1783 . "
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what g-ood end is this purgatory , thefr pains which will have a limit ? ' p' gs Can the good Abbe really think that he puzzles the Universal ist with these questions I How would he
himself answer the retorted questio n What good , what purpose worthy of infinite justice , infinite wisdom and infinite goodness , can there be in torments which will have no limit , but run on for ever ?
It is the proper distinction of Protestantism , that it " opens heaven to men of all sects ; " this Catholic reproach is our glory : but we did not expect to find the Abbe Gregoire asserting and rejoicing in the Ro man Catholic tenet , sometimes softened down by Catholic writers , that out of
the church is no salvation ( p . 81 ) : it is surely easy to decide which of these two principles is more honourable to the Universal Father , rnore agreeable to the gospel of peace and love and more conducive to the spirit of charity , and of course to the happiness of Society . [ To be continued . ]
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184 Madge ' s Three Letters to Walpole .
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Art . V . Three Letters to the Rev , R Walpole , on the Improved Version of the New Testament , in Reply to his Letter on that Subject , addressed to the Author . By Thoma * Madge , 8 vo , pp . 44 , Norwich . Is .
MR . Walpole is well known as a learned clergyman of the Established Church . In a visitation sermon which he preached at Norwich , before the bishop of that see , in the month of July , 1813 , he thought fit to animadvert upon the Improved Version of the New Testament and
upon the conduct of the Unitarians in the publication of it . An inaccurate account of the sermon app eared ina Norwich newspaper , which led Mr * Walpole to insert a letter in it , correcting the report of his discourse . This letter was a string of charge ^ *<* : n ^ 4- 4 Ua Tn ^^^^ wmA Viavfiinn and * W against the Improved Version ana w
U nitarians , its patrons . An answer to it was sent by Mr . Madge to tne same newspaper in which it had appeared , but was refused insertion . Mr , Madge then published it in a s » penny pamphlet , in which he stak the < £ te , and reprinted Mr . Walp * letter before his own , and also s joined in an Appendix , some /
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/56/
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