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Voltaire than of Luther in that part of his character . His works are much read by the Jews in Geritinauy , but from the extracts I have seen , he is not the man to lead them from Moses to Christ ; as he does not seem to recognize the divine legation of the
former , we know from the best authority , he cannot believe \ n the latter . His followers go a step farther : they very generally acknowledge that Christ was a . prophet , and even greater than
Moses , but they suppose both to have been competent to discover and lay down the rules of moral obligation , and even to exercise faith and love , and worship God acceptably , by the force of their natural powers /'
** The philosophical spirit they have-imbibed from the reasoning and principles of Mendelshom , has led the greater part of the Berlin Jews to reject the use of the Talmud , and a considerable party has been formed under the denomination of Reformed Jews /* '"'I have heard since I left
Berlin , that attempts are making to extend the principles and practices of this body , and that deputies have been sent to Paris , Geneva and other places . For the truth of this I cannot vouch , but nothing is more probable than that Satan , the great master of the
synagogue * who say they are Jews and are not but do lie / should be ready to forward any work and set up any service , that may keep this people in legal bondage , or draw off their minds from the simplicity of Christ . He will doubtless allow his character as a
prophet , * if by so doing he can reduce him to a level with Mahomet or even Moses , and to obviate the consequences of his reception as a sacrifice , priest and king in Zion ; but we know none ofhis devices shall prosper . " Jewish Expos , for April iSl 8 , p . 156 . In the same number is a Letter from the Rev , JR » Cox , written from Berlin ,
* This does not appear altogether consistent with the cunning- usually ascribed to this wily old serpent , by the believer in his personal existence and influence . If $ at $ n , -j jM | r-: - ' I * . W # y * s ' ? great master of the fijnjigogfjie' ** of th $ Reformed Je . yvsf permit them to igjkiye Jesps hrjst * q l > p a true ! pro- ? t ^ iis ^ l&H i * jw ^? u ^ * « to » w prevent them from embracmg ; vqrifttianjtv
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whp sa y s , <* Not a fe w of the Reformed Jews profess tlieir belief in Christ as a tnie prophet , jthough they . iupoirsistently decline hailing Jrim astfte promised Messiah . " P . 15 Q .
I shall make but one extract more from Mr . L . Way ' s Letters . He writes from Mozyr on the Prypetz River-in Russian Poland , March 26 th , 1618 : " From Smojensko to Titomir and so
on , the Catholic , the Greek : and the Lutheran churches , are to be found within a stone ' s throw of each other j and as far as 1 have been able to collect the sentiments of their respective members and ministers , they live together rather like the philosophical sects at Athens , than like bodies or
communities of Christendom , and indifference prevails , perhaps as much as toleration . It is impossible not .. to remark the degeneracy of the Lutherans The principles of Deism and false philosophy have overshadowed the morning star of the Reformation in the
great doctrine of justification hy faitK , once called among them , Articulus stantis vel cadentis ecclesiae . "—Jewish Expos , for July 1818 , p . 378 . Had an Unitarian Christian given
the account contained in these letters , of the defection of the great body of Protestants on the Continent of Europe from the standard of reputed orthodoxy , it might have been ascribed to
misrepresentation of facts , from the bias of his own mind ; it might have been said , We easily believe on slight evidence what we wish to be true . This , however , is not the case with the Rev . L . Way ; his prepossessions are all in favour of those religious
sentiments , which , in the course of his travels , he sees with grief to be gene rally exploded , and which honest truth obliges him to acknowledge , though in strains of pathetic lamentation . Th ^ t many among the thinking part of the community on , the Continent , are rea ^ y infected with the principle * erf
infidelity , is probably trqe ; and ta the genuine friend of Christianity , a subject of deep regret . This , ipdeed , may easily be accounted for , from the cor-, rtipt systems of religion frjhiich h ** ve ! generally prevai } e ( d Ha ving ; h&m taught frpm % ir ^ rfi ^ t , youjft > t « fc c ° nsidei : Qp ? or otfeer of the ^ as cwin «^ % W gosp el rt Hlmstv Q ** ** 8 ^ W Jl ^^ < # *«* evitdentcia ^ paiiflte Wy witfi-reawft rttwl
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Prevalence of € i Heresy" on tM Continent . , # 4 jjr
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 549, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/13/
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