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Processor ChenevUrtfs Summary of the lute Theotogiml Controversies tit Geneva.
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( Concluded from p . 75 . ) JMethodhm appreciated *
€ ff TI 1 UT why , " it ftiajr be asked , JL # " will not the Genevese be . * come Methodists ? Why have not the clergy allowed full liberty of action to ML Malan , and all those zealous
missionaries who appear consumed with the desire of converting the world V * It would , undoubtedly , have been more agreeable to leave them to their own contentious course than to become the aim of all their pamphlets , 1
and , to say nothingmote , to be exposed to the exag-g-eration used in their discourses , and the bitterness of their recriminations ; &n& nothing less than imperative duty / and a conviction of the danger which menaced their religion , wotild have determined
the pastors to oppose sectarian encroachments , placed &s they had been in a false light , subjected to accusations from etfery quarter , attd forced to remain silent . Without entering here into discussions of too deep a nature , and foreign to the design of
this piece , which is historical and not polemical , I shall content myself with replying , that the clergy have given their voice against Methodism , and fortified the minds of their flock against it , because it swerves from the religion of Christ ; because it leads its discicles to conduct and sentiments far
different from those which the Saviour enjoins on his children ; because its effects are entirely opposite to those produced by Christianity : three reasons which might furnish matter for a long wQrk , though I shall treat them briefly .
1 st . Methodism is in itself widely different from the religion of Christ . What is the finai ^ obj eet of Christ ! - anity ? To give us strength , ta furnish us with means for accomplishing the great end for Which the Oe&tor has placed us in this World ; to l « adi us by the hand tllL we obtain eternal salvation , afte * a life of Mte&lidttefss :
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for this purpose all the truths of Christianity , beautifully connected to * gether , are as brilliant lights to illuminate our path ; as landmarks to direct , and , if need be , to support
us . Now , what is the practice of the Methodists ? From amongst all the articles of faith they select some favourite points , detach them from the Connected whole ; and present them to
the adoration of the fulfill : these points are their watchword , their rallying signal ; all who do not adopt their phraseology are denied the name of Christians ; those * oji tie contrary , who repeat it are the elect , the right- * teous , that is to say , they are Af e ^ aodists .
The salient points of their system are these : Mankind is corrupt through the sin of the first man . The child is already in & state of condemnation at the moment in which his first cry is heard .
God was irritated against this guilty face , and required blood to placate him ; the second person of the Trinity came to die on earth , took upon him the sins of men , and appeased the wrath of the Most High .
The man who believes is washed and justified ; he is passed from death unto life . His faith is a gratuitous gift . The elect is s&ved by irresistible grace ; his conversion is a miracle ; when it takes place he is immediately regenerated .
Good works are altogether unavailing to conversion . He who is once regenerated perse *" veres to the end ; salvation is the In * heritanee of which he is assured ^ Tfcfc spirit of God cobniuunieateg ; itself to his mind by an internal revelation , of which his own feelings ar 6 the-witness . The second death , eternal death , i * ikhe portion of the unrfegeaeirate *
Processor Chenevurtfs Summary Of The Lute Theotogiml Controversies Tit Geneva.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/1/
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