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their 4 flyAsers v have used in his cperqipn . " ' In this he agreed with Archbishop e Tennison , who judgedhy ; whpj ; he had heard of § £ rvetus ? ; that he was fitter tq have been ? chai ne d up as a madman , tbaniburnt ' . a heretic * ' * ' Holigh Venenja did not tfisap prpyc tjie prelate ' s moderation , he hesitates . not to declare farther , "that this misdeed of the Genevans scarce tla ^ n be excused , ought not to be imitated , and catinot bejre
-CODciled with the principles of tKe R , eformation . The citizens of Geneva , hef observes , clergy as wi ? Tl a $ laity have , in later tlines , ¦ _ _ 1 ¦ _ _ v _ . I * a 1 ¦ ' a ¦ . ' ¦ ¦ # " '¦*• nfedthe
conae , mr t transactions of their aoqestor ^ , which isjfoijowed by allttiQ moderate , ^ nd Vprtfoest aiBopg ajl Christian denominations . No apology , continues that venerable and ernineiit diyine , can be made for Calvin arid Be ^ a , who stood lip in defence of the
hereticid ^ , . which , truly , rather must be considered as a cjrime ^ than as a sound j udgnient % i ^^ h him many eminent men of jqnquestipnable orthodoxy and equal learning agree . In our
enlightened days in this cpuntry , in writing tg a man of your station , of your talents , of your candour , not
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be capitally pjinished \[ -- ' nr——— - In the secoqd class of < errprs thpugh . it ^ deserves punishjn ^ nt , a moderate severity only is to be
overshadowed by a glowing ? eal for the purity of the Christian churchy in conformity with -your opinions , it shall suffice t <* propose Calvin ' s arguments for their
refutation . cC When we propose the magistrates as watchmen to defend tfye religion ^ we do not sharpen their swords , that they , pu nishing etery error , , di rectly shed blood . As we know that
there are three degrees of error , and we acjknowiedge , thjit some ought to bejpar ^ oned ; with others , a moderate punishment . wijl dp ; so that manifest impiety alone ipay
used , it ) so fp , r ^ tljat by $ qch ^ n mdulgence their improbiiy aiid contumacy , which aimed to rend the , vision . qf the faith asunder , may not . be fostered ; but when
religion is torn from its fouji . d $ u tion , when ex € ? crabl ^ blasphemies against God are poured out ; , and by impious and pestiferous dqctrines , the souls are carried off . ' to perdition ; lastly , when openly , a desertion of the one Gpd . and ! | i « pure ( Joctrine is manifested , / . then to
it becomes n ^ pessary ta k ^ hold
Th . T . ennison * s Disc * on Idolatry-, ch . ix . pag . 158 . fromtLa Rloche ' s lvtem . of t . iterat . vol . i . pag . 347 . Vetiema , via . p . 47 $ . - Jt ~ ; ' f Id . ib- and Keysler Itinef . pag . 149 . t 3 aurin sur la Conscience , Jurieu Hist , du-fiapisme ; and amongttheXutherans , Fechtius in adparatu ad Epistolas Morbachianas . Bockius passim .
' ' 1 J _ Giuummagistratus tuendx rdigionis custodes praeficimus , noh acuimus eorum gladios , ut de quolibet ettore pcenas sumturi , mor ad-saqguinem proaiKdflt . Sumiis cnim tres ^ sse errorum gradus 3 et quibusdam . fatemur dandain essfe ^ feiflarti , ' alii $ . ^ lodicairi castigationcm siiificere , ut tantum raanifesta impiecas xapittttlt ^ up . plicio ^ ldctatiir . ¦¦¦¦ Secundum erroruria genus , ctsi a ^ tigati < fWQeml mereatar ^ ediocrw tamen adhibenda est ' severitas j tatitum ne indulgentia alirarepru ^ inpL P ^ bitas et contumacia , qui fidii unitatcm sciitderc ctiperent : sed '« Ubi asiii $
&mda-Mentis convellititr religio , detestanda in De » m blaspheraiat profer ' u aiur , impiia ^ t pestiferis dogmatibus in exitiutn rapiantur aaiiose ; dtf&iqufe nht paiam defcccio ^ ab ^ mco deo puraque ejus doctxin a tenfeatur . ad extreraum illud remediuni deajpcn * < lcre $ ec « see est , no mortale vcuenum longius jtfrpat . Id . ib ^ Rcf . Km Sttiv * ¦ ¦ ¦
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Sketch of the Life of Sefveiiis . —tetter $ . 334
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 334, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/9/
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