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    mobabigr only from th « impure tendency of his alleged writings , as « ' one of the vilest of men ; " yet I am not unwilling , however inexplicable , to attribute to him that singular hypocrisy , a heart and life of purity , with an occasional phraseology , too gross to be repeated in decent society . Your correspondent , however , considers the author o (_ the Candid

    Narrative as "by no means to be implicitly relied on . " From the years elapsed since his publication in I ? o 3 y that author has probably long had a claim to the justice included in the trite maxim de martins nil nisi verurn . . As

    true I am disposed to receive whatever J . F . B . can allege against Mr- Rimius , on his own knowledge ^ but that I apprehend cannot go back far enough to settle the question .

    Certainly no author ever more deserved exposure if he misquote *} Count Zinzend < vf > yet no one ever laid himself more open to detection . Mr . Rim his has constantly referred to the number

    and page o { the Count ' s published sermons and , to the numbers and verses © f the hyihtas for every passage introduced . Of these passages he has always given the professed German

    original and adiiedan English translation , a task which he ouglit to have performed correctly from his knowledge of both languages . Yet these quotations thus connected with minute references to " the

    writings of the Count himself , " and therefore peculiarly exposed to detection , are left ununpeacned , as to text and-version , both . b y the German historian Cranhs and his English translator LarTrobe ; while your correspondent , without detecting a single forgery or mis-translation , describes the «•

    representations of a , Kimius as " malignant and . deceptive , * ' and his book , now rarely to be met with , as ' long since consigned to merited oblivion . " Hi adds , whether on his own knowledge ° r the representations of others does

    not appear , that Rimius ' s " translations are often inaccurate , by no means presenting the genuine meaning of fhe originaf , frequently eliciting meanln gs and hint ;? which the text does

    Tvurtemti . or at least does 4 iot re-< juir $ ;*« JQoes your worthy correspondent consider such a charge : as re ^^ Hrtg mtf ^ robf , only ; assertion , not * jg *<* miigle . rEfer ^ iice h 11 i confess I ^ rrftodfr ) jhkai ; but jwili here leave fl' ) f-. « ' ' . Kit

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    that difference to the judgment of our readers . I have tjeen greatly misunderstood by J . F . B . if he regarded me as charging the indiscretions of Count Zinzendorf on the Moravians of our

    time . - They possess , 1 doubt not , the decorum dnd Christian consistency to avoid , though not yet the magnanimity publicly to explode them . To their conduct , as a community , I willingly add the testimony of aiv ^

    tH-timate acquaintance , who like your correspondent was educated ; fncl |^> asscd his early life among them , but who has long left th <* ir society . He has often assured me , to use his own

    words , that if they are charged as a sect with any practices , contra honos mores , the charge is unfounded . Dr . Gill and other writers , to w hpnr J . F . B . refers , who have adopted aft amatory style-iu religion , have very little if any connexion with this subject . Other Christians differ from them

    not because their phraseology , excusing some rare inadvertence , violates decorum , but because even the pure and becoming language of human passion appears ill adapted to subjects so serious as the faith and hope of the gospel . Thus when IVatts in bis juvenile " Meditation in a Grove , **

    sings ^ . . ... " I'll carve our passion on the bark , And ev ' ry wounded tree , Shall drop and tear " . some nijrsttc ma «* k * . ' *;; . . ^ k . a ^ hat Jesvis dy'd for me , **

    be may be supposed , I tlnilk Ju stl y * to degrade his subject , by expressing in a style of pastoral jfo-ndnejss / . jite reliance on the author andjinipfrerofoyz faith , yet he cannot beJairly charged with an offence against decorum . Nofr would any thing beside * the tatjte and '

    judgment of Count Zinzendorf have been brought iniQ question , bad be been content to describe a Christian ' s copnexion with His Saviour as in t ^ e following verse qxx > ted ; from hift 33 fJ hymn , in The Enthusiasm of Methodist and Papists Contparcd , J 7 64 , , vel ., 1 ,

    pt . 2 , p . 5 : " Chicken hlessed , and caresped ,. , Littje Bep | on Jesui'hiesi&i From the ^ riy / And the *^ flurry' , ,. . Ot the earth Jjipu ' rt no ^ , it t ^/* , X .. would give yojuf oorretpendent

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    Mr , Hufl on Count Zinzendorf ; , 301

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/19/