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public speeches eaily , might not , perhaps , have induced me to call the attention of your readers , ta these effusions of aa osrer-heated zeal . At length , a well-known tenet of Calvin ' s , which many serious Christians cannot admit tot > e well-founded , scriptural , or honourable to the moral character of God . has been embodied
in the report to the ninth anniversary of the City of London Auxiliary Bible Society , held at the Egyptian-hall , at the Mansion-house , London , on November 1 st last , the late Lord Mayor iii the chair , which was " approved and adopted" by the meeting , on the motion of the Earl of Rocksavage .
This is much more directly to implicate the meeting , and indeed the parent society , than the expression of similar sentiments in the speeches of individuals , for which a Bible Meeting are not so expressly responsible . The report , as stated in the Times and the
Evening Mail , after quoting Eceles . ix . 10 , says , ** This appeal is loud and imperative , and it acquires fresh force , whether we turn to the particular circumstances of our own country , or to the state of the world at large . Even
u every inhabitant of the British Empire possessed a copy of the Bible , still the appeal would be loud and imperative ; for there are , probably , not less than 500 , 000 , 000 of accountable , perishing , sinful , but immortal beings , who never heard of a revelation from
God " . If the Bible be the pure source of light to the ignorant , of strength to the weak , of comfort to the dirtressed , of hope to the guilty , of relief to the
dying ; how deplorable is the , privation ot those who cannot procure ' that book !'—a privation the horrors of which cannot be duly estimated in time , and the effects of which will
endure through eternity . Can this appeal for perishing millions be presented to Christian charity in vain ?" What a " depleruble" picture is this t « The horrors of which , " its delineators describe as exceeding * hiiuenneators desenbe as exceeding
human " estimate , " that is , inconceivably great , and of eternal duration . And accordi ng to them , why are these « ver-dun » g punishments inflicted ? because its u&happy objects ** never heard of a re ^ efatiOn , from God ;" because they could not procure the
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Scriptures . Thi « might be their mis * fortune , but could not be a crime , nor subject them to such puaiehna ^ nt by a God of mercy and goodness , the impartial parent and moral governor anil judge of his rational offspring , the htu roan race .
How ^ different was the doctrine of Jesus of Nazareth , our Lord and Saviour , who assured us , Luke xii . 47 , 48 , € t Tha * t the servant who knew his master ' s will , and prepared not himself , nor did according to his will , shall be beaten with many stripes ; but he
who knew it not , and committed things worthy of stripes , shall be beaten with few stripes . And to whomsoever much hath been given , of him much shall be required / 7 According to this equitable doctrine of universal application ,
punishment is to consist of " many stripes" for those transgressors wbtf were best acquainted with the Divine will , and of " few stripes" only for those who " knew it not" b y any special revelation , but nevertheless "committed things worthy of stripes . *' BEREUS .
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[ The following letter was addressed by the respectable writer to Mr . Macaulay , the supposed editor of the " Christian Observer / ' in consequence of some reflections in that work , in . the Nos . for June , July and August ,
1820 , on the departure of the Genevese clergy from the assumed orthodox faith . In a private letter to U 3 , M . Chenev&re says , that the Christen Observer has not done him the justice to insert his communication , antel The
requests that it may appear on our pages . We cheerfully comply with his wish , and as the French language is so generally understood we insert it without translation . The English
Unitarian will rejoiqe to sec 4 bwt Geneva still claims the prece 4 « nee in the reformation of the church , and that the claim is so Well sustained by the learning , talents and Christian courage of her pastors and professors . E % j
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Sectarian ^ Spirit and Language in U&& * &ctefy tiftetfitg * . " " ¦ A &f
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^^^^^ Letter from Mons . J . J . Chenenidre , Pastor and Professor , at Geneva , to the Editor of the € t Christian Observer . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/31/
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