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Sir , Nov . 12 , 1815 . THE communications from your Transatlantic correspondent , ( p . 657 ) are highly gratifying . I trust there will be frequent occasion to repeat them , and that the land which
afforded Priestley an assylum will be largely recompensed by the wide diffusion and happy influence of those scriptural principles , which animated the labours of his life , supported his mind under great afflictions and sustained him in the expectation of
ifeath . Give me leave , however , to plead with your correspondent for mercy , or rather justice to the memory of Calvin , whom , like many on this jside the mighty water , he represents as a murderer ( p . 658 , c . 2 ) for having procured the death of Servetus .
We too justly describe war as murder , yet when the soldier , ?„ Seeking the bubble reputation , Even in the cannon's mouth , cuts down every thing human which stands in bis way , we forbear to brand
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verme , what the law terms nialice ^ prepense , which actuate the murderer ? ' me persecutor is to be regarded as * a dupe to that imposing sophistry % , which persuades him that the end ^ will justify any means , and that he does God service by destroy ing ^ his , workmanship .
Calvin betrayed Servetus to the magistrates of ( Geneva , and gjiorie ^ . in . ^ having procured his death , for which an indelible stain attaches to his own name and memory . Yet he was not , I apprehend , the murderer of Servetus // . Else Cranmer was the murderer
of Joan Bocher , and the Assembly of Divines the murderers , in purpose , ofi ^ Paul Best , whom they delivered over to the Long Parliament , to be cutoff ^ by an ex post facto ordinance , and of
Biddle for whose destruction they solicited the enactment of a sangui ^> nary statute . Socinus too , must , in * that case , be regarded as jail but ^ jji e ^ murderer of Davides . —**— „ £ > "_ --v
Allow me to add that we appear to make too much of Calvin ' s unaccountable objection to the term Trinity . He so uniformly describes God as Three in One that he cannot bese- , riously charged with inconsistency * \ merely because , for whatever reason ^ he disapproved the use of a word so convenient as Trinity to express that opinion . ^ ANGLUS . v
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jr ^ " ' . ' in&nite erih leaves no room for decrees of criminality in human actions . It is system which , consistently enough with itself , but in direct
defiance of the scripture doctrine of retribution , makes something altogether independent of moral rectitude the ground of salvation , and which can send one man triumphing to glory
from the scaffold , and calmly leave another who has endeavoured to exemplify every Christian virtue ( unless a change not of character , - gentle reader , but of views and reliance should take place ) to be
tt whelm ed in stormy gulphs of rolling fire ! !? E . COGAN
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Mare-Street , Hachney , Nov . 1 , 181 5 * * Sib * ^ WITH submission to the ^ superior mind of the Bishop of Lincoln ^
I must humbly yet firmly maintain , ^ that those clergymen of his lordship ' s diocese , who have openly avowed ' their attachment to the British audi * Foreign Bible Society , deserve the <^ thanks , rather than the censure * of >! their diocesau . <
These worthy men subscribe to the 6 th Article of the Established > Church , " Holy seripture cpntaineth all things necessary to salvation ; so * * that whatsoever is not read therein , * , or may be proved thereby , , is not tp ^ be required of any man , that it should ^ be believed as an article of faith ; ojr ba thought requisite or necessary to salvatiou / ' : v
On this article the structure of the 4 British and Foreign Bible Society < re $ t »; werjr clergyman , therefore ^ ^ who promotes this imtitutioo , dv >^ ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1815, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1766/page/39/
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