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menced by stating the infallible position , 6 i That all present must be fully convinced , that the established church of England is the
grand bulwark of Christianity and the pillar and ground of truth ;" which assertion wai shortly followed by an attack on the Unitarians , whom he represented as little better than infidels !
The same correspondent met , in the course of the day , an * evangelical' clergyman , who , charged to the full with theological zeal 5
declared " the whole story of Calvin ' s procuring the murder of Servetus to be an unfounded lie ;" and precipitately quitting the room in which he had made this
declaration , said , * ' he would not remain in a company where the story was told V What text or version of the History of Geneva does this good man read ?
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Loyal Piety . Sept . 2 , 1814 . Sir , During what , unhappily , we must now call the first American war , I remember to have read a
sermon , published with this title , The Bible and the Sword . The preacher was a clergyman of the church of England , named Fletcher , or Flechicre , a native of Switz - erland ; respected for his piety , and purity of character , and well known by his able defences of
Arminianism , and of Mr . John Wesley against his Calvinistic opponents . This sermon was designed , as you will suppose , to bring religious feelings to the aid of the government in prosecuting the war against the Americans . I was reminded of that extra *
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ordinary association , the Bible ani the Sword , by procuring , a few days ago , two sermons , preached towards the close of George II ' s , reign . The preachers were eminent nonconformists * and are
held in honourable remembrance for their talents and virtues . The first published of these discourses has the following title : " Britons invited to > rejoice and to thank GocL for national
Blessings . A Sermon preached at Exeter , Aug . 27 , 1758 . The Lord ' s Day after receiving the Account of the taking of the Islands of Cape liretou and St . John . By Mic . Towgood /' The text is from Ps . cxviii .
27-The Psalmist , whom , 1 apprehend , the preacher supposed to be David , he considers as having composed a " song of triumph" to celebrate cc some victory which he had
gained over very numerous and powerful enemies , " In a note upon the 10 th verse of this psalm Mr . Towgood indulges a thought which , probably , never entered the mind of the German Hero that
the King of Israel , in his military character , was a type of Frederic of Prussia . Mr . T . says , * Never perhaps , has this scripture been more remarkably fulfilled , than it is at this time , in that unparalleled
hero , our great ally , the monarch of Prussia . Supported by the hand of heaven , be hath not only withstood , but gloriously triumphed over one of the most powerful and tremendous confederacies that ever was formed
against any prince upon earth . ' Historians have remarked tht fond attachmentof pious Protestpnt Christians to that infidel hero , th « friend and companion of Voltaire * I ljiive in my possession a still
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348 Loyal Piety .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 548, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/24/
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