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2 $ pi& > i . ii -169 ^ wMcb is , here , alluded to ^ the writer of this article will be obliged to Mm to do ho : the " solemn protest against the imputation of Socinianism / ' is the document which follows .
Extract from the Registers of the Venerable Coinpany of Pastors and Professors of the Church aucj Academy of Geneva ^ February 10 , 1758 o
The Company being informed that the seventh volume of the " Encyclicpedie 9 lately printed at Paris 9 contains ^ tinder the head Geneva , some things which essentially concern our church , lias caused this article to be read
before it * and having nominated commissioners to examine it more particularly , upon hearing their report , and after mature deliberation , has thought it a duty to itself and to public edification to make and publish the following declaration : —
4 i The Company has been equally surprised and grieved to see in the article in question , that not only the system of our public worship is represeated in a very defective manner , but a very false idea is given of our doctrine and our faith ; on several
subjects opinions are attributed to many of us which we do not hold , and others are misrepresented * In direct contradiction to the truth , it is alleged e that several of us no longer believe in the Divinity of Jesus Christ ? and Jiave no other religion than pure
Sccipianism , rejecting all mysteries , * &c . ; and , as if to compliment us upon being completely philosophical , the author endeavours to explain away our Christianity 9 by expressions , whicfi
tend to nothing less than to make us suspected of having none at all $ as when he says , that 4 religion is very nearly reduced to the worship of one Gocjp expect among the vulgar / &Co Injpittation . s such as these are the
siiojre dangerous and the more likely to diffuse a false opinion of us throughout Christendom , as they are fouind iij a work of very genial . circulation , $ p $ which speaks favourably of our city , . 9 * its txuprajs , its government ,
a #$ , iyit | i thj $ exception , of its -clergy £ nd ecole ^ tife aj con ^ titutiqiu Wp 4 e ^ p ly regret , t % t the most important . pQiqt . pjF ^ il 9 i 9 tli ^ t pn wi n ch the author &&& wovBt ityformptir " , TCV > hayje ^ pj ^ e ia ^ xp j ustice to the $ oufid fles # pf pwr $ k \ $ h ' ft ot ^ jipjg w * ¥
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QeGessQry , fop hup but totia ^ s adv e rte d to the public an 4 3 uth ^ tiv c ptroofe oif it , which the church has given , anif still continues tp give . Nothiiig' i % more Tsotorioais , than that out leading
principle and invariable profession i § to receive the doctrine of the hphj p % 9 + phets and apostles ? ^ o ri tviined in th % boofij of the Old and New Testament ^ as divinely insgiredf and as the sole infallible and perfect rule of faith and practice . This profession is expressly
recognized by every one who is adt mitted to tl ^ e ex ercise of the sacrqd ininistiry , and 9 indeed , by ev ? ry tnemher of ouif flocks , when , a § catechumens , they give an account of ttiei f belief in the presence of the church . We constantly make use of the Apos-1
tlesCreed , as * m abridgmerit of t \ i § historical and doctrinal part of Christianity , adopted alike by all Chris ; tianso Our ecclesiastical institutions have all the same principles for their basis i our preaching , our religious ceremonies , our liturgy 9 our
administration of the sacraments , have all a reference to the redemption of men by Jesus Christ , The same dpctrhxe is taught in the lectures and theses of our academical instruction , in our manuals of devotion , and in the qthfv works which our theologians publish ,
especially as preservatives front infidelity , from whose fatal poison iyv e incessantly labour to pr £ serv@ pur flocks . On these points w $ are iipt afraid to appeal to the testjippny pf all ranks , and even of the strangers ^ who attend upon 9 and are edified bys our public and private
instructions" On what then can that different idea of pur doctrine , which has beep held up , be founded ? Or , if the suspicion attaches to our sincerity , as though we did not really belieye what we teach and publicly profess , what is there which warrants so odious a
suspicion ? Was the author not conscious of his own inconsistency , when P after having praised us for ofir exemplary morals , he ta ^ ed us with a degree of hyprpcrisy to which none ar , e capable of descending , bpt those
unprincipled persons to whom all religion is a jest . ? It i $ true that wp esteeirp and cultivate philosophy , not , how * e ver , tjbat licentious and sophistical philosophy , of whose , ejctr ^ y ^ gancies the present * uge exhibits so many exfimplejSj |> ut th § t ^ rja v ^ e ati d solid
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/25/
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