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to the one God of heaven . Him , it is likely , they intended to worship by sacrifices , as well as they could . But the passover was not kept till after the finding of the book of the law , and could not
have been exactly kept before . Now , it may be well supposed , that divers copies of the law were writ out for the use of the king and others . I have put down such thoughts as have at present occurred to iriy mind . If they
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Dec . 7 , 1807 . Rev . and respected Sir , Though the history of the Reformation has been written by Brand , Seckendorff , Gerdes , Mo . sheim , Venema , who , however , confined themselves either to the
Reformation ~ at large , or more particularly to a sect of a special denomination , or to the countries in which they resided , —I do not recollect to have met with anyelaborate and complete performance , exhibiting a full view of the state of the Christian church *
at large , in Europe , at the end of the 15 th and the beginning of the 16 th century . When I consider how little yet is performed , compared to what remains undone : when I reflect
on the arduous task , I should not dare to burthen with it any single individual : nevertheless , I
? Rome , abominably corrupted as it was , was deemed by the reformers a tru $ ch * rcbof Cbrist 9 as Calvin in his letter to Jac . Saddlet , and Melanchton in hja discourse with Eccius , in 1540 . < c On the first article of our confession , " says he , "is no dispute , as it appears there-from , that our churches faithfully defended the general uniformity against Servctui . " -r-Op . iv , p . 6 4 6 . FoL - Query , Might not the name of church of Christ with more propriety be given - to any apostate church , even to deep corrupted Rome , from regard to the few feitfcJul pretenred in it from the general contagiga ? ' ~ ';
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are not * quite satisfactory , they may , however , possibly lead you into some further inquiries which may give more satisfaction . I am ,
N . LARDNER . P . S . The institution of synagogue worship may be reckoned orie great cause of the alteration
of the Jewish people for the better after the captivity . Before which time there were no synagogues , so far as can be perceived .
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can scarce refrain my wishes , that some one of superior abilities , of indefatigable industry , of rigid impartiality , with a candid , acute ,
pious , and enlightened mind , would undertake the charge . This would spread as brilliant a light on Europe ' s ecclesiastical history , as Robertson ' s Introduction of
Charles V . did on the political situation of that period . There is another point of view , as pleasing as instructive , from which I should desire to see this
momentous period considered , viz . the developement of the means and ways through which God ' s adorable providence consummated this grand event . This , perhaps ,
would include one century more ; and it might then become evident , that many heterogeneous materials , many eccentric opinions , which we abhor ; many persecuted
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Sketch of the Life of Scrvetus . —Letter 2 . 163
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SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF SERVETUS , IN LETTERS TO THE REV . JEDEDIAH MORSE , B . B . — LETTER II .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/3/
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