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cepts , and confirm those precepts by your example ; teach them how discreetlyallegiance may be perjured on the table , or loyalty forsworn in the jury-box ; aud when you have done so , tell them the story of Orr ; tell
tHem ' of his captivity , of his children , of his crime , of his hopes , of his disappointments , of his courage and of his death $ and whea you find your little hearers hanging from your lips , when you see their eyes overflow with
sympathy and sorrow , and their young hearts bursting with the pangs of anticipated orphanage , tell them that you had the boldness and the justice to stigmatize the monster- —who had dared to publish the transaction !
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laments . The Lutherans he sfates in one place to have renounced the doctrine of cortsubstantiation , arid isfr
another , of justifitation by faith . The great body of the Calvin ists have given up some of the peculiar tenets of their founder , especially predestination ** A considerable number of Jews in
Germany and Poland admit Jesus Christ to be a true prophet , though not the promised Messiah . When he states the generality of professed Christian ministers in Berlin , to be Deists a « d Socinians , due allowance must be
made for his religious system , which leads many who embrace It to represent those who deny the proper deity of Jesus Christ , though strenuous advocates for the divinity of his mission , to be no otherwise than Deists .
To shew the correctness of the above observations , I shall make a few quotations from Mr . !>? Way VJLetters . Prom Berlin , the capital of Prussia , he writes , Octi 4 , 1817 : ~ *> € i There is a great difference in Germany as to party « nd opinion . There
are a , few staunch Lutherans who hold con substantiation , and afeiv Calvinists who hold predestination , and will hold it . But the mass of the clergyf ( as the spiritual part allow , ) are Deists ,
Socinians , or any thing -but evangelical Christians , and the thinking part'of the community are strongly infected still with the infidelity of Voltaire , and the philosophy of Kant , Wolfe And others of the German school . "—Jewish
Expos , for April 1818 , p . 155 . *• The character and condition of the remnant of Israel resident in the ; capital of Prussia , exhibit an appearance altogether dissimilar from that of any other place perhaps on the face of
the earth . The rabbinical opihions and systems have almost disappeared * and the commercial body is composed of men of more education and liberality of sentiment * than the ordinary cfefift of trading Israelites . ' The origin " iff these distinctions its- doubtless ^ ber
traced to the character and writings m Mose « Mertdelshom * who passed ht » life ' at Berlin , mid ro £ e t ) y dint of indtistrf add the > exercise tyfn © ordinary capacity to ^ a i degree * of > literary fatfte afid peiM sonal distinction / wtiicii n& Je wperhaljp lifts attained since * the time ** of Atwi ^ 'bmel and Matmori . ** - * Be *> tf htmmirtd by his Jtwifh > bf < ethreii art wttet 6 rmet % but tai Cbrbtian ' wdUW i « % «^ # * r > - , t i - i-qriid x * & * ? Mwa - ' *? t m Jw * r
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548 Prevalence of 4 € Hwesy" on the Continent *
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StB , Bridport , Aug . 8 , 1818 . BEING well acquainted with the character of the Rev . L . Way , nyhp w , as educated for a barriste r * but ispovvv what is usually termed , an evangelical clergyman of the
Established Church of England , my atteuttop h ^ s been particularly directed to hjs letters from the Continent , which haye lately appeared in the Jewish Expositor . No man has taken up the cause of the dispersed and degraded children of Israel , with more ardent
and pei severing zeal than himself . He has been for some time travelling in various parts of Europe , with a view to promote the object of the London Society established for the conversion of the Jews to Christianity , and to this he readily devotes a considerable part
pf an affluent income . That he is influenced jn his undertaking by the most pious and benevolent motives , cannot be doubted by those who best know his disposition and character ; while intelligent and considerate men haye , I . believe *; , no expectation of his
success in making many suicere con ^ ve ^ rts to hi 3 rel igious system , from anaong a people set apart by Jehovah ^ fv $ : ( p ^ eser . viug the . knowledge and W-prs || ip ; tof himselfyithe one only living ajid true God , ;; , rjRlMeh ha ^ i been lately said of the
change of iseutiinents which has gran ( U « 4 Jy been ; eabt ^ ed in the minds of the minivers , of < i onevfl ^ t ^ formerly < the cj ^ Mr' ft ^» t of Calvinistic -utheology ^ FfHin Mf . ¦ L . i Way a letters it appears , tljiatja spirit lof iree , inquiry prevails du , vm&W Other parts ¦ of the € ontinect > le « dik ) g to i . results : ; whiich he ^ duply ^>' 4 ^ * i ! ¦'"¦ ' ' ' fit sbjl !; yiUNV , d ^ : I tRW
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/12/
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