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2 § fc £ Ckkritabie Establishments J or the Sick .
vmm Gm $ m / % i i 666 ; : ' be&i : pwt > i h&Jq ehmv . -- ¦ \* _ r i oif John Keresbv gives the following , aqcoujit of the metropolis or Calvinism . \ n his Travels ^ du . nftfit lie middle of the century
Betore . last , just published , in a vefy eipensive form . ( One volume 8 yd . with forty portraits and views , t > ri ¥ e fKree Guineas . 1813 . ) 1
** ' Ift three days time we came tb \ ' Geneva , througb a barren itibiintaiVibus woody country , little inhabited but by wolves and bears . It ^ t ^ ri cts jipph a . gre&t lake , well ^ Sfe ^ v vith fish , especially trout
( Some nave been taken weighing sl ^ ty pbiiuds ) , with France on one sid ^ , Savoy and Switzerland on the otner . Itis a little common-\ vfaltii or ^ ei gnipry of itself ; its t € rritbri ^ s soni e leagues in com . p | sst ah university , and governed
by a common-council , aiid four syndjes , c < The town is large , the streets but narrow , and the houses all arched towards the street , that one may walk secure from wet m all weathers .
u Here Mr . Calvin first broached his doctriqe , about 15 ? 0 , Ayni ^ h has since much ' spread itself ih ¥ oiigh Prance , and other parts < Sf Europe , though witlb some diffejreiice as to matter of < : tiuT (^ h gdverhrrient . Here it coiisisfts ' - ' of t \ vo
iSynien to every itiiniislei " , who fake care' of matters wiihiu' their particular parishes , appeajing to trie synod or cohvpeatibn , when they cannot determine them . ¦ T j > i > ' V \ 4 tfThe
rninistefs live upoh stipeihd&i seldom ^ . Bove fi fty pounds a rrian , " and jt ] Ke tythes are to \ - lccy& ^' bV for tKe ' rnmnlenirife ir > f the jpodr , arid the childijen of ministers that are fSft ^ j ^ dvfd ^ d hti , alid ^ iich like ^^ fe ^ tfefe ^ vc iMh
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and steeples lilte i > ulKs ^ TOft ^ n ^ inward decdtMiotis : ^ liif ^^ u set form of prayer , and ^ fterWfw vice any sort of recr ^ atidn oil Sundays . They are so severe against Romanists , that they da not suffer them to abide there above three days without special licence ; and to know who comes ,
they have searchers that inquire daily irr aJl inns who they atffe that arrive , what is their reftgibiii and how long they intettdto stfcy ^ ( Pp . 40 , 41 ) r f 5
The same intelligent traveller has the following note- on 0 hh ^ near Orleans , in Frande : ^ i " There the Calvimsts dr % ^^
lowed the public practice of their devotion , and hav # tteir lefrif ) fe ( as they WM It ) ^ r chtiit ^ toS not withintbe v ^ alis ? Vitf tbie fowF , no more ih £ ri fekev ^ b € * ie m ? Btktkf& ,
I knovlr riot Wlia ^ t r ^ 6 fti iifcto better , as to « frap ^ , dikinW ? % ^ ri ^ nor is it muchfc&tef adotmifrv all that is allowed W he pmnb&dw
written with ill hfeiMg ^ ffiy tfe ^ teh commandments j th ^ yh ^ veneitiiw steeples nor bells £ ^ he ^ bJiioiv ^ sH separate from the rtm ^ fm& qh * ministers preach coverfed ^ ^ Ebn ^ . ¦ ; :-. - - . \ - ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ - ¦• i cc ( ia $ &ii * ; -
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Charitable Establishments fofotle Sick , not the exclitsi'vesferatotfi of Protestant Principles * > ' >^ Mqy -6 '/\ B W : ^ In Faith oj Hope the world will * cfiskgree : But alt mankind's concert !^* JCharityj '
The yery respectable etlit&f bf the Cyctoi ) aedia , ' unde ^ ' thd atticte Dispensar y , sb ^ aks of ttite ^ umbi * of «*' tK « tfe ^ WitaKle in"St ? tUii ^ n ^
and likewisepf h ^ jlitais ^ rhiiifl adorriihe tneti-opoKs'iJf thcjUtiite *! King . ioin ¦ ; ¦ 'ifttflfe' Wpri&enta tH « m
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/36/
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