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    • - v ^ Ytith . they * were ^ enveloped , many of fhe ° fornjter machines miwv 4 n «^ out incessant vollies of liquid fire and Brimstone on-their respective operators . Many others they imagined as instantaneously and an torn at km lh , on their separation from their visible exterior , shedding the most ' beneficial influences , aitd that in s \ ich superabundance , that the overplus graduall y accumulated into a large stock , unoer the care of certain managers , \ yho made a lucrative tfacie , by placing it ih portions duly estimated , to the credit of those debits had become for mid able . It is somewhat extraordinary that such a

    superabundance of beneficial effects should be accumulated in circuuvstances where so little could be seen doing , -wl > en the operator ? instead of pursuing their e m ploy men r , agreeably to their ' instructions , occuj > ied so much of their time in gazing and wondering , while the remaining portions

    of ft were applied to those servile occupation 9- about the inferior movements of their machines , by which they ; might t > est gratify the pampered appetites of these managers aod tl > eir fr iends ; m 4 dependants , who in : their turn like drones in a hive were

    eagerly absorbing al } the real produce on which they set any value , and occaskmally entertaining the operators with phantasnwgoria , which served only to bewilder their minds and palsy their hands from useful activity . ' Thus the genius and his instructions were almost wholly lost sight of . His distinguishing powers were absurdly itfetributed' among worn out and

    broken machines of his own construction . And the writing which cont ained his instructions was carelessl y thrown aside and buried amid ridiculous talej ^ about the phantastnagorfo } or if occasionally bruugbfc forward b y the 'managers , to whose sole care it was consigned , so nmrderexl in the

    teading , so dressed up m unintelli-. f ; ible phraseology , or so broken into Jits atid scraps ami intermingled with foreign mattery that it scarcely served any other putpose ' than that of promoting the delus ions , and supporting ( tie ascendurrcy of these pretenders . ? XTb Lc ' concluded in tjie next "No *!

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    npUE letter of Jf . F . B . ( p . 2 ^** . 4- \ W . * 9 f * t 9 S * j S ? , * 6 V ^^ fisspd ^ not from any ^ coxisciousriess ^ ori iuy

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    part , of having brought a groundless w * sinuation against Goiint ^ Zinzendorf , ^ because my evidence , for an obvious , reason , is not produ ^ cilil ^ in a work & ? -. signed for general readers * . Vet I can *? not suffer your respectable correspondent , who is scarcely ' anonymous to me to remain longer without some reply . I assure him that I have no desire to

    think unfavourably of Count Zrnzendorf , my exceptions to whose character rest entirety oil the highly improper tendency of passageJPcjtioted from nis alleged Hymns ^ n ct Se rmons . If your correspondent Will examine them - especially from p . 55- —() 8 of the

    Candid Narrative , he must , 1 think , agree with me as to this tendeucy . THose j > assages , tfwieed , exhibit a shameless intrusion on tjie most sacred privacies of life and a violation of decency , in language and allusion , scarcely ever equalled , certainly never exceeded ,

    under a Christian profession , and which the decorum of heathens might serve to condemn . Even of the Spectators , Dr . Watts complained that they " now and then , though rarely , intro * ducQ a sentence thatu would raise a blush in the face of stBdt virtue /! He also commended Tillotson for having (

    proposed the omission of some * parts of the Bible , " on the ground of deco-/ Tum , " in the public lessons of the church . " What would Watts or Tillotson have thought of the p hraseology attributed to the Christian hymns and sermoiis of Count Zinzendorl ? Yet Cicero has shewn that a man

    need m > t be a Christian to expre-s himseli * justly on this subject . Many of your readers will recollect the pas ^ sage to which I refer , near the end of the first book de Officiis . He 19 guarding his son against the sophistry of the cynics and the stoics whoia he terms cynical . * Their theory Count Zinzendorf , if fairly quoted ,

    seem * to have adopted , how correct soevejr may have been his own practice . Dr . Jortin , who was no calumniator , describes the Count , judging

    , ? * «* N ^ c vcro a , u 4 | ^ udi sunt cyiiUi , * & si qui fuerunt s to lei peoue cynici , q « i rcprcbendunt , et irrideM , ' wv * il «» nu * tvr ^ ce . nun sunt . ver ^ s ttag ^ ipaa diew » Uf , ' * autem qua turpi ^ a § inV fco ' toiiiibui * W ' lemus sUis . ——Korf ; aSit « m oatortm . quanrar , et al * drtrtii quod abhor ret , R ipsa ; oculonittiV * xi&dmqV <* c omvv < MW >» fAigUimtiB . " ' fi * V'W < W . H OfficM * w I 8 mo . ¦ 1 C 3 ^ j' - » . 6 * -. r

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    3 KJG Mr '~ . Rutt tm Count Zinzendorf \

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/18/