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    will not scruple , henceforth , boldly to assert , on such unquestionable authority , that < € there are destinations and gradations of rank , " Q , nd ttf £ fL £ tf ¥ * know the influence which th £ SHM ? ¥

    even in the common concerns < m $ W e * i " that " the learning of the scholar and the theologian has thrown a light upon many passages , from which much knowledge and improvement have been derived ; that the wild enthusiast and

    bold declaimer are generally ignorant /' or , at least , deficient in judgment to direct the application of their knowledge ; that no one " can hope for improvement from the silly rhapsodies

    of a self-created minister , " or from any other retailer of " silly rhapsodies ;" and that " it is infinitely better in the propagation of important truth , to appeal rather to the reason than the passions . " J . T . RUTT .

    P . S . When I observed the Correspondence on the cover of your Number for July last , I expected that my friend Mr . B . Flower was about to avail himself of your established

    impartiality , to complain of an impeachment of his veracity , such as I little expected from your learned correspondent , especially while consulting * ' the interests of truth and the credit

    of the Monthly Repository . " The calumny which that P . S . ( 279 ) too clearly appears to contain , and which could only by accident have found a place among your pages , is , in my judgment , and , I trust , in that of most ;

    of your readers , poorly compensated by any display of learned research , or superiority in argument . It can , however , mislead only those who are strangers to the life and character of the gentleman who is the subject of it .

    I was glad to observe ( p . 415 ) the notice of a republication of Wakefield ' s " Directions for Students in Theology , " which I have long desired to reprint . That ( € little tract" was not *< inserted in the Appendix to his Memoirs . "

    P . 456 , Note . If Aretius , who , in 1554 , deserved the praise of Castalio for having K < embraced liberal opinions , " should be found to be Bene dictus Aretius , a divine of Bern , who , in lob / , dedicated to the magistrates of that city , his book entitled Gentilis r qlentini Hntaria , containing insults

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    on the memory of Gentilis , and aft unqualified approbation of his cruel punishment , from which history Bayle took his article Gentilis , such a circumstance would afford a striking instance of lamentable degeneracy *

    Castaho , as mentioned in one df your early volumes , appeared to great advantage in 1551 , when dedicating his Biblia Sacra to Edward VI . Calvin , already possessed by the spirit which

    too soon projected the murder of Servetusy * barbarous Calvin , " as Robert Robinson styled the Geneva Reformer , while himself a Qdvinist , had , in 1548 , recommended persecution in a letter to the Protector . I cannot

    recollect his words , but he intreats Somerset to cut off heretics by the sword entrusted to him . Castalio , on the contrary , thus counsels the prince , " Obediamus justo judiei , et zizania

    atque ad messem sinamus ; " happily adding , * Neque enim ad hue ultimus mundi finis est : neque nos angeli sura us , quibus hsec sit mandata provincia . "

    I wish The Nonconformist" may prevail upon his learned associate to give us ' a complete history of Religious Liberty , " as I see , with great satisfaction , that such a history would comprehend the liberty , as it respects civil controul , of being irreligious ; a

    liberty essential to Christianity as an unimposing system , but which the professed followers of Jesus are still grossly violating ; spoiling unbelievers of their property , and thrusting them into prisons , there to learn how Christians love their enemies .

    Page 495 , col . 2 . The late justly lamented and revered biographer of Mr . Cappe , who so well sustained the honour of his name , mentions , in her Memoirs , ( 1802 , xxyv * , ) that " a passage from one of his fast sermons was quoted by Mr . Erskine on the famous trial of Paine . " It was

    introduced by the learned advocate , who afterwards named Mr . Cappe , as I well remember to have heard in the crowded court assembled ont that occasion , as " part of a sermon written by

    a person of great eloquence and piety , * who " looks forward to an exemption from the intolerable grievances of our old legal system in the infant establishment of the new world . " As the circumstance of this quotation does not appear to be mentioned in the

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    Mr . Cappe quoted by Mr . ( Lord ) Erskin& . 517

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 517, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/13/