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It has often been remarked that orthodox Christians , in classing Unitarians with Deists , &c , have only followed the example ( would to God
they had done so in no other point ) of the Roman Catholics , who have constantly maintained , from Bossuet downwards , that Protestantism and Infidelity are synonymous , or nearly connected . The ministers of Geneva
€ i have subscribed to no articles nor confession of faith for more than a century , because" ( . says one of their advocates ) " such formularies are too often a fruitful cause of disagreement . " The British Critic here
remarks , The Catholics have not failed to avail themselves of this argument . The Abbe Labouderie has published a pamphlet at Paris , of which the following is a translation of the first sentence :
** All the world is now convinced that the religion of the Protestant Churches is little more than disguised Socinianism . " Again , ' « There will be no schism between the clergy of Geneva and the Reformed Churches
of France , Switzerland , England and Germany , on account of this Socinian heresy . They are all alike , " &c . What do you think of the pious Abbe ' s integrity and charity ? Is it possible he can be so ignorant as not to know that " Soeinians" are
solemnly anathematized in the Established Church of England twelve times per annum , and that too in the set form of words which his own church adopts ; only translated
faithfully from barbarous Latin , into English equally barbarous ? When I read this I looked for a pretty severe castigation of the Abbe ' s temerity , with a solemn defence of the Critic ' s
church against the odious charge of Socinianism ; but judge of my surprise to find him parrying instead , the keen thrust of Boileau : '• ' Tout Protestant est Pape , une
Bible a la main , " and the following sentepce , in support of orthodox charity , is perhaps one of the boldest that ever proceeded from the pen of a defender of a " church , by law established : " " The Protestant
Confessions of faith , differ from the Catholic in this important point , that it is not pretended that those who affirm any of them to he erroneous , are rejected from
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Thoughts on a Country Life , suggested by a Paper in " The Round Tabled' , ¦ "
" Truth is not local . God alike pervades The hum of cities and the peaceful shades ; And may be fearM amid the husie&t scenes , Or scorn ed where business never
intervenes . " rflAKING up " The Round Ta-JL ble , " a collection of Essays , the chief part of which is ascribed to the pen of Mr . Hazlitt , my eye fell upon the following passage : " All country
people hate one another : there is nothing good in the country , or if there were , they would not let you have it . " This , the beginning of a very strong philippic against the
country , and the hapless dwellers therein , afforded me some amusement , but concluded by leading me into a train of thoughts , of which the following , perhaps , have fixed themselves the most strongly in my mind .
There cannot be a more egregious mistake , it seems to me , than that into which manv individuals have fallen in their views of the happiness to be derived from retirement * There is , indeed , a spur ,. an impulse given to the mind by an abrupt transition from the sameness of cities to the wild
liberty of nature , which , while it lasts , is delightful . That freedom may exist in the busiest scenes , is certain . But yet are we , so much the creatures of association , that we cannot separate the idea of mental from that of bodily subjection . We cannot persuade , oursejyes that our wills are so free , that our spirits can
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666 Thought ? on a Country Life .
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the pale of salvation , nor are they proposed as infallible , bat as acts of reference / ' &c . ( The word " infallible" is the only one wl > ich the Reviewer has thought fit to distinguish by italics , but there are others in the
sentence which equally merit that distinction , and 1 respectfully solicit it on . their behalf . ) I cannot allow myself to trespass further by commenting on the last-cited passage ; perhaps it iieeds none , but such as must suggest itself to every reflecting mind . J : READ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 668, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/16/
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