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XV ; the Editor of the Monthly Repository *
. ¦ sin , March 23 , 1 8 O 8 . Some months a ^ o \ <_ rave us an account of the conduct of Calvin
n \ the persecution of . Serrctusf " . I have no disposition to vi n dicate him in that u . alter . But it may tend to mitigate the severity ot censure cast upon thai great man ,
to consider the general spirit of the times in which he lived , and to be acquainted with other simi * . lar facts , occus . ion . ocj' by tl ^ c gross error ihftn genially prevalent , — itvat W , attphei » y jought to be pu-
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He im very ready to celebrated hera for abolishing receptacles of celibacy in Portugal , jtt the very moment , that be is establishing them hH over France . These enormities , Mr . Editor , grievously affect every xpan who
feels that religious is far superior to civil liberty ; " and who sees and laments that , contrary to his former hopes , both are not only cramped , but absolutely annihilated by " the beast'' whom the Christian Philanthropist appears > ' to worship /'
Will you penim me Mr . Kch-Xor , to conclude by earnestly recommending to your readers ^ the perusal of Dr . Priestley ' s Essay ¦ on . Civil Government , Sect , iv . Xp- 7-6—109 ) ia which he treats , in a masterly and unanswerable . manner , of the pernicious effects pf an authoritative code of education * ' I am ,.-Sir V , - F .
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njshed with death , I have lately met with an old . box > k and 1 pre - sume a scarce one , ( tor J never heard of it before ) which contains an account of the tragical death
of I ' alentinvs Gentilts , sit Bern , in Switzerland ; originally written in Latin , ami translated into Eng - tosh ip tire year 1 , 696 * by some one who appears pos ¦ ses ^ ed af a perse *
cuting spirit , in no common degree , and who discovers a parti , cular spit <' jhjrouyh the whole , against Dr . Sherlock ^ whose iej ) «
* Sec M . Kepos . vol . i . pp . 349 * 449 , 508 ; and voL ii . p . 34-
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The Persecutirm of Valent in ** Genttilis fbt-heretical Opinidm . * 8 d £
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tiot disposed to defend the uni * versity of Oxford ; but it is obvious that there is this great difference in the present case , that the English seminary ( as I suppose do all others , established or not ) directs what books are to be read
in the course of education pursued within its walls ; but it does Dot interfere with other places of education . Jn tl ? e charity schools supported by members of the established church , the
church-catechism ts used j but there is no interference ^ vith the catechisms , or oXhejr jbooks used in other cheirity-schooJ « . The Philanthropist here treats' iiis reader with some
very j , ust receptions on the rnisjtakes of well-meaning persons in the education of their . children . ; but they- only serye to lead the reader astray frpm tbe main
question , which is , the enomnous iafringement -on the rights . of pa ^ . rents , whicK has dictated the whole of the Fr ^ ch decree * - — -
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THE PERSECUTION OF JTALENTINUS . GENTILIS , FOR IJfiRETlX ^ Al * . . , - ¦ . . r . . . .. . w OPINIONS CONCERNING THE 'fKl ^ lT . X ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 309, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/17/
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