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m ^ CainscroMS ) Gloucestershire , Sir , October 18 , 1819 . WERE the pages of critical publications to be generally subjected themselves to criticism , there would be no end to auimadversions and replications , till the wearied readers ceased to become purchasers . Sotfne persons may even object to an occasional notice of this kind of the
ephemeral pages of a monthly publication - but of this sentiment the Reviewers in question evidently are not , since they devote many , lines , in a subsequent article of the very Number which I $ h * H pne&eufcly luwe to notice * to au attack Upon t $ he Edinburgh Review , . :
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The " British Critic" commenced an article in its Number for June , which was concluded in the subsequent Number , upon a subject par * ticularly interesting to most of your readers : the Genevese controversy .
Many parts of this article merit our attention , and , in my opinion , would be worth transferring to your pages , I leave this to your better judgment , while 1 drop a remark or two en passant . I took up the work with feelings of eager curiosity , to see how orthodox members of an Established
Church would treat a question in which ministers and professors of another establishment , charged with heterodoxy , were implicated . It is but justice to say , that the clergy of Geneva are treated by the high Churchmen of England with much greater humanity , wot to say liberality , * than bv orthodox Seeeders or Dissenters .
The Reviewers appear to have been much hampered to reconcile canonical obedience with the obedience of faith ; and a Calvinistic student , inclined to rebel against the authority of his Unitarian tutor , would And some difficulty in comprehending the line of conduct which English divines
of the High Church would have him adopt . Did my time and your pages admit , I should like much to present your readers with an abstract of the article with remarks , but having called their attention to the subject , shall content myself with a quotation or two .
Speaking of the Geneva , edition of the Bible of 1805 , a new translation , of the great merit of which many of your readers are well aware , the Re * viewer remark * : ** In proof of the general opinion
respecting it , it is alleged that the Bible Society of Geneva have refused to circulate it , while a reimpression has been promoted of the Bibles of Martin and Ostervald . lq repJy , it is urged , that the style of the new
* We may say iC liberality , "" for the Reviewer has most ingenuously pointed out a gross misrepresentation of Granus , one of the opponents of ttte clergy , a misrepiesentati on which the Bissau ting writer of aii article in the Eclectic ReiHiov * , wo « not aebained te adopt and giro faartte *' curacy to *
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66 © " British Critic" Unitarianisni at Geneva .
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time apt wishing to be understood as supposing that " Christians , like Jews , were under any divine law , which had consecrated a seventh portion of their time for exclusively religious uses . " I want to know where , in Scripture , we are left at liberty to
consult our own convenience in this matter . Jesus Christ preached no such doctrine ; but , on the contrary , observed the Jewish Sabbath himself , and declared that he came not " to destroy the law /* Who were the
u ancient Fathers / * whose conduct Calvin approved , for " substituting the Lord ' s-day for the Sabbath , " thus taking upon themselves to do what Jesus Christ never did or taught ? When and where did these " ancient
Fathers" first introduce this innovation into the Christian system ? I conceive tlaat it is little to the purpose to say that the New Testament no where commands the observance of
one day in seven * whilst it contains no revocation of the old law , which appears to have been binding on our Saviour , bis observations respecting it , going only to condemn the superstiiion which had crept into it .
Our modern Fathers have undoubtedly the same authority as the ancient ones to alter laws for iC convenience or utility ; f > but till I am satisfied of the validity of tliair warrant , I shall continue to believe that the fourth
commandment stands precisely on the same footing , and : claims the same regard as the other nine .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 666, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/14/
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