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John Kafcjr' 4 Prophecy * f i % e F&nch Rctotiition . % 0 S 7
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To the Edit at * of the Monthly Repository .
sir , Bath Jnne 9 y 1808 . Paul the apostle asserts that Acre will be an vnd p £ prophecy ,
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JOHN 1 AC \' S PROPHECY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION ,
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but be cio s > not say wben . Som £ Christians ( among whom are » the Socmiatfs itx gpnera' )) - say it t * $ fc
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tit the state , having been tried and f&itnd guilty of the meanest of ail fcrimes , of accepting bribes to pervert justice ; and that hot once only committed , but many times repeated in each case * and that , in both cases ., the guilt was
so manifest , that b y the Unanimous judgment of the house of lords , one of these-criminals was fined forty thousand , and thcbtlrer thirty thousand pounds , and declared for ever incapabje of serv - ing the public . Be it remembered not only that both these noble persons wefc believers , but that
one of them was an eminent and boasted champion of Christianity ! How happened it then , that their principles did not - * keep them firm to their duty ; " and what is the true reason why our modern English judges , generally speaking , act more uprightly than theirmvdecessors , or than some of those
X who lived under the Roman eiaa - perors ? It is noi <> we * ec , because they are Christians . It is principally because ^ by a most wise act of parliament , passed in the first year of our glorious revolution , they have been
deliverod from the fear of 'Caesar ,, and of ihe people , and have been placed in d state bf independence . It is not to the establishment of Christianity , but it is to the alterations and improvements in our excellont constitution , for which our forefathers so nobly straggled , that
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\ ve owe ( iur present comparatively just , mild , knd beneficent sysihm of government : and if ev er the people of this country should be so false to thomselves , and $ fc > utterly regardless of the welfare of thoir posterity , as to surrender their inestimable privileges , they
will infallibly experience a renewal of those numerous evils which are the offspring <> f unlimited authority ; among which , notwithstanding all their Christianity , will be tyrannical sovereigns and venal Judges .
Far be it from me to speak disparagingly of pure unsophisticated Chistianity . What moral effect the general reception of it in any country , is capable of producing , has never yet been tried , Ftbrr
that corniptio optirni which passes for Christianity in almost every country of Europe , little good is to be expected . That it does not hinder learned and eloquent di ~ vines from preaching and publishing the most childish trash , is
abundantly evident . This ^ ery passage however upon which I have been remarking , having been written by a popular bishop , has been selected for applause , and pronounced to be judicious , * by some of our sagacious and impartial periodical writers . 1 am , Sir , Your sincere friend , W . STURCH .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 467, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/11/
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