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    • A Summary of the Theological Controversies which of late Years have agi tated the City of Geneva. By M. J. J. CHENEVIERE, Pastor and Pro * fessor of Divinity. (Drfcwn tip by the Professor for the Monthly Repository, and translated from the original French by a Friend of the Editor's.)
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      TntrOi GENEVA had been elevated by the Reformation to a height of prosperity a , nd glory whiqh taight have beea thought unattainable hy so small a state . Suh'ounded by powerful nations that were under the dominion of Kome ,. Geneva had jireserv ^ d the light of revelation in all it ' s purity $ she had stretched out her arms to

      receive and to shelter the mends of trutlx whom superstidon had driven from country to country ; her clergy enjoyed a reputation firmly established on the bases of Knowledge aid virtue . The pages of the traveller and the historian had beenemployedin details

      and commendations of this favoured city , in a measure utterly disproportioned to her limited extent and political insignificancy . Suddenly all is changed : at the beginning of the nineteenth century * ^ n offensive league is formed against Geneva ; as if the language of commendation were ^ xiiausted , she now hear $ only the voice of reproach and

      outrage . Nothing good is now to be found either in her creed or her religious instructions ^ her ministers are attacked ,, insulted , calumniated ; the press becomes a weapon of offence , the wide circulation of journals and the unfriendly speed of travellers are employed to scatter the venom of injurious reports . We observe with

      astonishment that they are not Jews or Pagans whose wrath is thus excited ; that this attack is not made , in the first instance , by the members of a different communion , attempting tc >

      injure the Keformatibn by beating down one of its fortresses : no , it is a sect * amongst the Rieifoirmed , whose zeal ia kindled against Geneva ; It is from the lips of clergymen , of citizens , of pupils , that evil surmises and , calumnies have proceeded , against their col *

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      Geneva ,. October 1823 . ction . leagues , their fellow - citizens ,, their instructors . When the restoration of peace adr rnitted strangers to the continent of Kurope , Geneva , on account of its jjeoffraphical situation , and its

      profession of the reformed religion ., was ix $ tf on fay a zealous sect for the scene of its labours , the central point whence its missionaries should go forth to propagate Methodism on the Continent . Na * neans were neglected which coum contribute to the

      accomplishment of this undertaking ' , and it was exjpecte < d that auxiliaries would be found in the clergy , who were the successors of Calvin ; the pastprs / of Geneva , however , would no . t consent to retrograde by treading in the steps of the Methodists ; resistance , tlierei

      fore / wa 3 opposed where numerous and intelligent helpers were hopeil for : Inde irie 9 hence dissatisfaction and anger ; hence that accumulation of wrathful and defamatory pamphlets issued against a city hitherto so mucli . the Cle of

      esteemed , and against rgy that city . Experienced rnen * with two or three excepti 6 tis , saw the danger , and remained firm and on thieir guard . Unthinking and ardent young men were then applied to , and they easily fell intp the snafe . A nuihbef of women , men who had fallen under

      evil tongues , and various honest but mistaken persons , joined themselves to the party . Money , promised , extravagant praises of the converts , violent abuse of the pastors of Geneva and their friends , —such are the

      elements the combination of which has produced theological controversies , puerile in themselves , but afflicting'in their consequences . Geneva is 110 longer Christian ! is the cry which resounds in the city itself , and , reiterated by malevolence *

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      No . CCXVIi , ! . JANUARY , 1824 . [ V *> 1 . XlX

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      A Summary Of The Theological Controversies Which Of Late Years Have Agi Tated The City Of Geneva. By M. J. J. Cheneviere, Pastor And Pro * Fessor Of Divinity. (Drfcwn Tip By The Professor For The Monthly Repository, And Translated From The Original French By A Friend Of The Editor's.)

      A Summary of the Theological Controversies which of late Years have agi tated the City of Geneva . By M . J . J . CHENEVIERE , Pastor and Pro * fessor of Divinity . ( Drfcwn tip by the Professor for the Monthly Repository , and translated from the original French by a Friend of the Editor ' s . )

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/1/