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J thirik * perceive , that the * rnain spring of 'his religious career ; ( and to this cause he ctevoted . his life ) , was , " Love to him who first loved us , and gave himself for us ^ that this love prompted ffirii to cheerful compliance with
what he believed the Bible taught of his Lord ' s will j constraining him to diffuse , as widely as possible , . what he regarded as the good tidings ! of salvation ; and in the prosecution of this , to hirq all-important object , he shunned neither privations nor dangers , nor
reproach nor poverty ) though his rank , connexions and fortune would have enabled him to move in what the world regards an exalted sphere . As the apologist of the moral character of the Count , I am now
compelled to take some notice of a work long since consigned to merited oblivibiv . ' I tertmed that work malignant and deceptive ; for , under the mask of candour j the author evidently endeavours to represent the Count and his coadjutors as inimical to the cause of virtue and even decorum : without
attempting to allege any thing by way of extenuation / which charity would naturfa | ly have suggested , and for which abundant scope unquestionably" remained : ' but 'his aim has invariably been to exhibit"them in the blackest colouring ; thus to render them objects of universal detestation . ' '¦ '
But this writer is by no means to be implicitly relied oh , for his statements not urffrequently rest dn tjie authority of tfersoW who seceded from- the Bret hjr 6 ^ i * 9 congregation from worldly or selfiW motives , and whose ! disaffection would render their " representations at least suspicious : again , his translations are often inaccurate , ' by do means presenting the genuirie meaning of the
original , frequently eliciting meanings and hints which the text does not wafn * rit ; or at least does not require . Nor 18 this all \ language is' frequently charged to the Cdunt with which he had 'ha concern and which he was foremost to counteract . This candid
author ^ iwbreoye ¥ , discovers a wondered , propensity to attribute impurity of (thought and conduct UV impropriety of l anguage . But Zinzendorf , we know , * s not th $ only mysticjzer 6 T scripture . Have not ojuur venerable Gill and ot ners tfone the ¦ same ? Yet , who ^ W dare > fy tari the learned and es-W | 61 eebr '^ i « ei 4 tator l&k * the Song of Staffer * * tfit *^ im *> ur % of- mind and \
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conduct ; because his phraseology would admit of s \ ich an exposition ? But your correspondent argues , ' that if Rimiiis ' s cliarges w ^ ere not" fouiided , they would certainly have been replied to ;
according to himj silence necessarily involves guilt : if such be his dpiniori , imihe it certainly is not : nor , let me add , that of many great and good men besides . To conclude— ' -Rimius ' s work
appears * to me its own refiater ; for were the horrid charges he alleges matters of fact , it is incredible how any society in civilized Europe could hold tOgetner ; and the Brethren themselves seem to have been of the same
opinion 5 for I have beeri credibly informed , that they might have bought up all the copies of that work if they had been so inclined , but they preferred , and I think wisely , to leave it to its fateV Your correspondent seems to think , that Maclaine ' s testimony , who merely quotes from Rimius , is of great
weight in this afmir 5 but he is , perhaps , not aware , that at that period it was as much the oittet of the day to slander the poor Moravians , as it is at present the Unitarians . With best wisnes for the success of your excellent Repository , I remain , ' ' " Your obliged friend ^ JJF . B . *
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Souiheys Poem " The Great Victory "* - ~ Qkestions to Anti-baptistsl * 266
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Sir , Hackney , April 3 , 181 & LET justice be done to every * mail . Although I may have Frequently lamented the apostacy of our Poet Laureat from some of tne best sentiments
of his earlier , unpensioned years , die mistake of your correspondent Pacifi cus ^ ( p . 106 , ) ought to be rectified . The beautiful and instructive little piece " The Great Victory , ' is not omitted in the late edition of Southey s Poems , but inserted Vpl . III . p . 167 . What naturally led your
correspondent to make the mistake alluded to is the blunder of the printer or reviser of the late edition , who , in the table of contents , has omitted to notice the poem of " X Great Victoiy / and of another " . The Old Woman , " &c . p . 193 . B . F . 1
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Sir , Harlow , April 17 , 181 ft < S I suppose a considerable num-J ^ jL ber of your constant readers are Anti-Baptist ^ Win you permit me to submit to them a few questions co % cern&ig the ordinances , and principles
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1816, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2452/page/13/
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