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    by the Gonsistoty , persists in frequents ittg it > cauaot be ordained to the ministry in our Church . - 2 ndly . The following * expression shall be inserted ¦ in the Formulary of ordination : ** You promise to abstain from all i sectarianisin , and to avoid whatever would be the occasion of

    schism , or interrupt the unity of the Church . " ; ; , ¦ : ? Notwithstanding" this regulation and these promises , JYL , Empaytar continued to presidV ^ at his own house , pver unauthorized assemblies ; the

    moderator announced to him , in June 1814 , on the day on which he appeared with his companions at the annual examination , that by his opposition to the proposed regulation , he had excluded himself from

    ordination to the ministry in our Church , r Sboft after this he set off to rejoin Madame de Krudener . During his journey to B&le , it was inserted in a newspaper , that in a dream he had seen Religion under the form of a desolate woman , and after listening to her lamentation on the state to which

    she was reduced / he had protested his zeal and devotedness to her service . In a short time he received orders from the police , in various situations , to quit the places in which he carried on his religious services . We read in the Journal des Debats , under the date of Carlsruhe , February 4 , 1816 : * ' The sermons preached during some weeks past by a minister ( M . Empaytar ) in the balcony of the house inhabited by Madame de Krudener , and the awful prophecies which he uttered , attracted an immense number

    of auditors . The police of the grand Duchy of Baden , a few days since , conducted this new apostle to Lorrach , on the frontiers of Switzerland , together with all the diseased in mind or body whose cure he had undertaken . ^

    • Not long after this time M . Empaytar published his Considerations on the Divinity of Jesus Christ , addressed to his former companions , the theological , students of Geneva ; in which he attacked the faith of the

    clergy of that city , transcribing- into his work , without < acknowledgment , part of MassiilonV Sermon on the Divinity of Jesus Christ . This gave rise to a scurrilous publication by a French Abbe , M . * JLabouderie , cour-

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    teously addressed to the same students , * and professedly a sequel to the rohner production . Every member of a reformed church who attacks the reformed clergy may reckon on the support of the Romish priests . The Abb& enforced the accusations of

    M . Empaytar , in the ardour of his zeal -talked of Calvin himself as a Sociniaa , and gave a ludicrous proof of his own ignorance ; for he praised the style of his co-operator in that

    part of his publication which is copied word for word from Massillon , in these terms : " The latter pages are admirable , though they have not the force of Massillon ' s treatise on

    the same subject , " &c . Hence we may logically infer that our Abbe was better acquainted with Empaytar . than with Massillon . - Immediately after the publication of this work , the theological students

    requested admittance to the body of the clergy , to give assurance that nothing could diminish their confidence , respect and attachment to them . Messrs . Guers and Gonchier , intimate friends of •¦ M . Empaytar , who afterwards seceded from the Church of

    Geneva , were the only individuals who did not join in this act . - At the beginning of 1815 had been circulated in the city an anonymous writing , brought by the courier from Lyons , consigned to a Sceur de la ChariUy and then sent to the CurS of Geneva , who , on being interrogated by

    the police , affirmed that he had not distributed any copies , but that he had allowed his servants to carry the parcels to the persons to whom they were addressed . Each subsequent attack on the clergy has been little more than an amplification of this , and the imprudence of the Protestants has led them to become auxiliaries of the

    Roman Catholics . It was shortly after this period that individuals arrived at Geneva from amongst a people that had become respectable in our eyes , during the troubles of former times , by the defence of liberty and the diffusion of those glorious sentiments which preserve the existence of nations :

    Ehglish gentlemen arrived under the cloak of religion , and bearing the ho ^ nourable and pacific appellation of members of the Bible-Society , to fructify the widely-scattered seeds oE

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    Theological Controversies at Geneva . 3

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/3/