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previous tfatuslati&ns , and in the Bibles of the other Reformed Churches *" Several of these passages are quoted , the most important of which is , Acts xx . 28 , where the translators have followed the text of Griesbach . Our
author , however , has nothing to do with Griesbaeh , er with sacred criticjsra . Tlie version is different from that of Calvin , ( which he tells us he has carefully examined , ) and , therefore , ought to be condemned * 8 . Since
the middle of the last century the pastors have been openly denounced to Christian Europe as A nans or So * cinians , by d'Alembeit , by Rosseau and by Voltaire , the latter of whom asserted , in a letter to the Marquis de Villevieilie , in \? 68 , " that there were
not twenty persons in Geneva who did not abjnre Calvin as much as the Pope . " 4 i This manner of generalizing the accusation ( says the author ) is an atrocious calumny—but unjust as it is , it imposed on the members of the Compan y the obligation of completely
dissipating the suspicions which were cast upon the integrity of their faith , by a frank and loyal disavowal of the errors imputed to them . Unhappily , far from taking this wise step , they resolved the problem against themselves ,- and established by a solemn and authentic foct , what till then had
rested on conjecture . ** " The too celebrated thesis , which M . Jean Lecointe maintained , in 1777 , under the presidency of ML Jacob Vernet , pastor and professor of theology , revealed to Arians , Socinians and unbelievers tbat they had accomplices and adepts in the
bofiom of the Company of Pastors . An aspirant to the sacred ministry , under the direction of his waster , in presence of the uujiisters <» f the holy gospel , dared to " proclaim , ' that we should cautiously abstain
from attributing to the person of Jeaus Christ , however excellent , an equality with God the Father , to whom he was inferior hy nature , and subject by will and by obedience : * ' he dared to reject the expression consecrated since the birth of
Christianity , God the Son : he dared to maintain that we ought not to render the same decree of honour to the Son as to the Father . Is this the language of an Arian or Socinian ? It is useless to decide on a
mere shade of difference . It is sufficient for jme to know that it is the language of * due who does not regard Jesus Christ as very God and very man at the Bsime time : it is therefore the language of an innovator againflt whom the Venerable Com -
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pany ought to have f > rotas * e « $ * -. * gaiiisf whom they have not protested . They sr «^ therefore , considered as avowing &&cfc rattf ^ ing , by their silence , an error supported by one of their members . And we me the more authorised to regard the opiuj oo of M . Vernet , as the opinion of' the Com - pany , as si ace that period , amidst the great number of theses which have been maintained by the students , not even one It&s been consecrated to avenge the doctrine of the Divinity of Christ against the continually-increasing' blasphemies of . the impious "
** I conclude thea with heartfelt sorrow , ( en gemissant ) and without . permitting- rayself any personal application , and I say , that the reproach brought against the Venerable Company of Pastors , of no longer professing the Divinity of Christ , is unhappily , but too well founded . *
Thus far our author . We conclude from the same premises with lively joy and sincere thankfulness , that , amid the political convulsions which have shaken the Continent to its foundations , and astonished , as well as affrighted the civilized world ; amid
the contest of blind superstition and fanatical incredulity , falsely styled philosophy—the simplicity of divine truth has been accompanied with power , ha * been making , if not a rapid , at least a certain progress . We hail the dawn of light , as an earnest of
the perfect day , which it will evectu * ally introduce . We confidently hope that the word of truth , recommended by the learning and piety and Christian graces of the ** Venerable Company of Pastors" at Geneva , and aided by the Divine blessing , will , ere long ,
mightily prevail and be glorified * To such a hope , changed into an earnest supplication to Him , without whom a Paul may plant , and an Apollos water in vain , we are persuaded that all our pious readers will add their fcordia ] Amen . B . G .
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80 S Review Christianity and present PoHtie * him far rmmmUahlt .
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Art . II—Christianity and present Politics how far reconcileahle : in a Letter to the Right Honourable W . Wilberforce . By the Rev . H . Ba-Ihurst . 8 vo . pp , 84 . Ridgway .
1818 * MR . BATHURST is son to the venerable Bishop of Norwich , and in the spirit of this tiuly Christian prelate , remonstrates with Mr . Wilberforce on his parliamentary po-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/52/
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