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    8 Snort Account of M . Pilloniere .

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    instil into his mind the grand principle of their order—Win ^ obedience *—and afterwards his zeal in defending their absurdities ( though attended with a doubtful inquisitiveness respecting the arcana of their different systems ) , we must perceive him to be an extraordinary instance of the power of truth in dispelling the most rooted prejudices and erroneous preconceived opinions , where a person has resolution enough to keep the mind guarded , yet open to conviction ; for after harassing his mind with the fooleries of Fathers Hardouin , Tournemine +, &c , &c . and then again with the system of F . Malebranche % y he became a rational , consistent Protestant , and that of the first order ; one of the greatest advocates in his time for the right of private judgment ; and one of the most determined opposers of persecution ^ under whatever form she appeared in—whether in that of the monk ^ the . Episcopalian priest ^ or the sleek-faced son of the Conventicle .

    After giving a particular account of his contests with friends and enemies ^ we find him at length abjuring the errors of his church , and manfully maintaining those truly apostolical , mild , charitable Christian principles , which would render hiin an ornament to any age or nation . Abandoned by his father , an exile from his country , we find him a refugee in Holland : here he joined the church of the Arminians , and adds , « n 6 t so much because their doctrines , summed up in Five Articles * appeared to me agreeable to the New Testament , as because they were of all Protestants the least chargeable with the uncharitable spirit of Popery , professing to receive and to communicate with all those who profess to believe the Scriptures to be the word of God , and live according to iV —a fine example for our modern sons of orthodoxy .

    It appears while in Holland he published a work , against Popish superstition ; and likewise , at the request of the learned Le Clerc , he undertook a French translation of c < Grotiys on the Christian Religion /* He likewise wrote , ^ nd presented to his Majesty George I , at the Hague , in 1714 ^ when on huT journey to England , a poem on his accession to the Crown , and after that , ( in England , ) another upon his coronation * Notwithstanding the kind offer of his friends in IHJpyanc ! to entrust him with a considerable sum of ixionev to settle in trade

    * The motto of tfre Jesu ^ ** f In the midst even of his uncertainties , he appears , to ha , ve had no small portion of humour in entrapping the then contending Fathers , and playing offy ; in an artful manner their absurd conceits against each pther—r- ^ p . 12 and $ fc ^ J Of the excellencies of the private character of this great man he speaks ni ^ the most affection a t < a manner , to whom , he says , he is indebted for the I ^ mOtif ^ of almost ^ H those clouds that darkened his understanding . ¦

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1807, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2376/page/8/