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all , end others are bat a shadow ; these are they all , and I have taken care , you see , not to reckon the differences of faith as motives for contention . Understand it well , oh ! my colleagues ; and you , above all , my young brother , who soon will find yourself thrown into the midst of the commotions and the progress of the Protestantism of our days , you are not to regard as enemies those who think not as you do . Leave to them respectively their liberty ; you will with so much better reason demand that they will leave you yours . There , even where faith is different , charity may be one . It is by the bond of charity that you must keep the unity of the faith . It is the only possible unity , the only one that is Christian , the only one that is durable . It reposes on the imprescriptible right that God has given us to read the Gospel , and to explain it according as conscience and reason shall direct . This is the unity which existed between Saint Paul and Saint Peter on the works and the ceremonies of the law ; and more than ever does it become us to unite with a brotherly love around this banner of liberty and peace : for we are advancing with rapid strides towards an epoch , in which the greatest misfortune that can happen to Protestantism would be , for diversity of opinion to
become a hindrance to a mutual interchange of the name of Christian . Let this line of conduct , oh my young brother , be yours , and then be persuaded that it is impossible for you to calculate the good that you may do . Called , the first , to exercise your ministry in a new church , where already the faithful , without a pastor , have opened a house of prayer , go and finish this work of faith ; and exhibit Protestantism to those of our countrymen who know not what itjs , and 6 hew to them how a priest may also be a citizen . In that port , celebrated by the wonders of our industry , whither God sends you , go , in presence of the immensity of the ocean , and speak of the majesty of that God who has said to the sea , Hitherto shaft thou come and no farther ; and of the grandeur of that Jesus of whom they said , Who is then thin man whom the seas obey ? and labour in your holy calling in the firm expectation that one day the faith of the Gospel shall cover the earth as
the waters cover the bottom of the sea—none of your labours shall be lost . When you cause the tears of repentance to flow , or dry up the tears of mourning , the Lord will accept them . At your voice pardon from the Christ shall descend from heaven—immortality shall stand by your side on the edge of the tomb : as you advance in life you shall be followed in your career by a long line of the faithful , whose pains you have lightened , whose faculties you have enlarged , whose charity and faith you have supported , and whose salvation you have prepared ; and when the hour of rendering account shall arrive to you , the last moments of life shall be cheered by the good you have wished to do , and the first moments of your immortality shall be filled with the view of the good which you have done .
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Reformed Church in France . 423
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/63/
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