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of this j udgment he afterwards obtained from the Swiss law courts , a formal sentence of divorce , abrogating his m arriage with the Marchioness Victoria . The legal impediment being thus removed , he united himself , in i 56 O , to a widow lady from Rouen , in France , who had removed to Switzerland on account of her religion .
Caraccioli , after his settlement at Geneva , became the active supporter of the Protestant cause among his own countrymen , who , like himself , had sought an asylum in Switzerland . He assisted in the establishment and
superintendance of the Italian churches which were formed for their use , and , after some time , accepted in one of them the office of elder . The sacrifices which he had made to the dictates of his conscience created for him , in
the breast of every Protestant , a feeling of respect approaching to veneration ; whilst his upright and exemplary demeanour in private life won for him the affection and friendship of all with whom he associated . On his lirst
arrival at Geneva , he contracted an intimate friendship with Calvin , which continued uninterrupted till the time of the death of that eminent Reformer ; who has transmitted to posterity an additional proof of his esteem for Caraccioli , in the dedication to him of a
new edition of his Commentary on the first Epistle to the Corinthians . * The last years of Caraecioli ' s life were greatly embittered by a painful asthmatic disorder , which at length overpowered his declining strength , and terminated in his death . He bore his sufferings with exemplary patience and resignation , deriving in his dying
* Calvin had dedicated the first edition to James of Buruuudy , Lord of Fallaix :, who had professed the Protestant religion for several years , but who , distrusted by the disputes between Calvin and liolsec , afterwards quitted the Reformers . In " ^ dedication to Caraccioli , Calvin speaks Wlfh apparent regret , but . with no small
« iea « ure of self-complacency , of the necess | ty under which he felt himself of blot-U out of his Epistle Dedicatory the name which he had first inserted . 4 t 1 la ment , " he says , << chat the man has thrown himself down from that seat of fame wherein 1 have placed him , namely , n the forefront of my book ; where my , "nj was he should have stood , thereby r feav * been made famous to the world . "
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moments the most consolatory and animating support from the review of the honourable part he had acted in giving- up all for the sake of truth and a good conscience . R . S .
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Ren David ' s Illustration * of the Booh of Job . 325
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Sir , REGRET , in common with the I readers of the Repository , the death of that very amiable and
estimable man , Mr . Butcher . To certain queries which , some months past , he proposed respecting the Book of Job , [ Mon . Repos . XVII . 10 , II , ] I intended to return an immediate answer :
and I perused it at the time for that purpose , divesting myself as much as possible of all regard to modern theories , and considering the work as connected with the earlv history of the
Jews as the most likely way of discovering its nature and object . A veil of obscurity has assuredly hung for ages over that sublime composition ; and I flatter myself that what I have
to say will pave the way to restore it to its original lustre . The Egyptians appear ever to have maintained that the God of the Jews was an evil Being , and they could not fail to point to the condition of that people , while yet
degraded in Egypt , as proving that he delighted in the sufferings of his votaries . The argument was as specious as it was malignant : nor were the taunts and reproaches of open enemies the only circumstance which
embittered the distresses of the Israelites , Their afflictions were rendered still more bitter by the imputations of persons who at heart were their friends . In the ages succeeding the flood , the Heathens , descending from Noah in common with the Jews , had the same means to know and the same grounds
for believing in , the one true God and we may reasonably conclude that numbers in every country , even in Canaan and Egypt , though the majority were plunged in superstition and idolatry , still retained the doctrine and worship of their illustrious founder . These Pagan Unitarians , as I may call them , must have regarded the
Patriarchs with veneration , and could not fail to look with sympathy and regret on the unhappy fate of their descendants in Egypt . But in spite of their sympathy , they were led , by the prejudice of education , to entertain very
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 325, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/5/
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