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Wary opportunity of speaking aa& writing against the Genevans with all B 531 WO » tc ^ yj $ ence ^ He la ughed at the attacks on liis neighbours * which fye tieheW Irom tte height of his orthodoxy as fro m aa impregnable fort ; lie was ill able to conceal his joy when
lie saw them insulted , nor did he shew much t repugnance to insulting them himself ; but he no longer laughed when the Methodists and young ecclesiastics , who had caught their fanaticism , inveighed against his faith and his pub tic instructions in the terms
which he had considered so appropriate to those of tha clergy of Ge-Beya ; he now lost liis temper , his indignation was roused , with a voice of thunder he cried shame on his aggressors * and he had recourse to
measures against them of much greater severity than those employed by the pastors of Geneva , which he had spoken of with disapprobation . This man , otherwise intelligent ,
well-informed and full of zeal ,, is violently prejudiced against Geneva ; he would speak , of that city in the spirit of the words formerly used , " Can any good thing , come out of Nazareth }"
Seventhly . The Editorof the British Critic , who , in his Number for July 1819 , whilst affecting great care ta hold the balance of judgment with aneveu hand , shews his prepossession , and his partiality to the Thirty-nine Articles *
Eighthly . The Christian Observer „ which gives in June , July and August 1820 , meagre analyses of some sermons by M . Gellerier , Senior , and takes that opportunity to strike at Geneva . According to the writer , it i $ a country in which a spirit of false and worldly philosophy teaches contempt fqr the great work of
redempparties * In the thirteenth place , and , above all , ( for he \ tauld be very much offended if he were passed by in silence ;) M . MukeLUi wYiO t by his own pamphlets and those of hisr friends , and by his journeys and his preaching , moved
• **• "IT •• • mm t » Jtr ^ -m h m * -. tiojou In his-opinion , Mk Gellerier is the only individual who maintains his standing amongst a fallen clergy , &c . I did the Editor the honour to believe that he was under a mistake ; I wrote to ; beg that he would correct the fals ^ statements , by which he
might unwillingly injure us ; but he proved that he was not unwilling to ijyure us it by utterly disregarding my ren ^ onstrance , and neglecting ta insert i » Y letter in Ids publication . T ^ i ^ hly . The Archives du Christu anisme , ui sevcml articles written at
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Paris , ^ uid ^ at Montauban $ : amongst others , in an eulogium | on Professor Encontre , Tenthly . M . M 6 | aa ^ ^ ti ^ jVi ^ 8 i 8 ^ wrote against the Pastors , and since
that time , employed by the Continental Missionary Society , h ^ s gon e fro m place to place doing mischief . He vvas condemned some months ago to fine and imprisonment by a French tribunal , for having in various places set parishioners against their pastors ,, and turned them to Methodism .
In the eleventh place . A little regjU ment of middle-aged ladies , who have just exchanged one passion for another , or relieved the void of 3 the heart , by adopting oae ; they have talked much against the Pastors o £ Geneva :
armed with a small Bible , they have employed themselves as itinerant theologians in visiting artisans , rustics and indigent persons , to convince them of predestination , irresistible grace *
the inutility of good works , and the heresy of their pastors . We musti say , however , that their erudition , their jzeal , their eloquence , and even their alms , were generally incapable of baffling , the unostentatious good sense of their countrymen .
Twelfthly . A host p f Methodists ; , of both sexes / who cherish the prejudices they bring hither by associating * at Geneva with none but the enemies of the clergy , and who travel about , < repeating the accounts they have heard in tke enemy ' s camp , without having made the slightest effort to hear both
earth , and almost represented heaven as uttering an audible voice / to convince men that Christianity and infaU libility in Geneva were with him and his partisans alone . Testimonies of Esteem and Confidence given to the Clergy *
In the beginning of . this contest spins adherents of the Pastors , with- ^ out giving their names to the public , exerted themselves in the cause : the first published two Letters to a Friend , the styjie of which was generally cem
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/8/
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