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Dr. «/• Pye Smith in Reply to Professor Cheneviire, on the late Theological Controversies at Geneva.
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Homer ton ^ Sir , June 8 , 1824 . DEPLORING , as I cannot but do , the difference in religious sentiments between yourself with probably the majority of your readers , and the person who now addresses you , I am
assured of your entire concurrence and cordial support In any well-meant attempt to vindicate the rights of humanity and to protest against domination over conscience , or any of the forms of oppression , for the sake of religious opinions .
Professor Cheaeviere ' s " Summary of the late Theological Controversies at Geneva , " appears to me to require some animadversion in this point of view . He has made an extremely uncandid and unjust attack upon
persons , whom I regard as deserving the esteem of all the friends of liberty and religion : and he has committed a heinous aggression against the dearest right and most imperative duty of mankind , the open profession and peaceable practice of religious
conviction . The general effect of M . CUenevifere ' s verbose and declamatory production might be safely trusted to the perspicacity of your readers . An enlightened Englishman , familiarized
to the principles of religious liberty , cannot fail to discern , through the diffuseness of the Professor ' s style and the cloudiness of his reasoning , au arrogance of pretension and an assumption * of claims which would have well befitted a St . Dominic or a
Gregory VII . Melancholy indeed it is , to see men who occupy the higher stations among the citizens of a renowned Protestant Republic , and who boast of their glory and purity , their knowledge and virtue 5 yet proving
that they have not learned the first rudiments of truth aad reason wi * U regard to the rights of conscience , bee inquiry , unl honourable profession of religious belief .
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I wish to spare my time and the patience of your readers , by maintaining the utmost brevity : but I fear that I shall not be able to bring what I have to advance into very narrow
limits . Misrepresentation can seldom be corrected in as little room as it is made . I must also premise that I write only from my own resources . I have not sought to my friends at
Geneva for information ; nor in writing to them , have I alluded to M . C . 'a paper . That paper- itself , with such a general acquaintance with the facts as I conceive myself to be possessed of , is sufficient for the ocea *
sioa . I . I request your attention to the pusillanimous and evasive manner In which M , C . and the major part of the Genevese clergy endeavour to hide their religious sentiments . Scarcely was the venerable Benedict
Pictet cold in his grave , when a gene * ral lukewarmness , and soon a manifest departure , took place with regard to the great doctrine of the Reformation , ( aiid which I must call by an infinitely higher title , the principal doctrine of the Scriptures , ) salvation
AND HOLINESS » Y GBACK , THROUGH faith in A Divine Redeemer . After twenty years of management , and secrecy like that of the heathen mysteries , ( for thus it was judged prudent to cajole the people , ) in 1725 subscription to the Confession of Faith of the Reformed Church of
Geneva was abolished . In less than thirty years afterwards , D'Alembert posted the majority of the Genevese clergy as Deists in disguise : and their miserable defence exposed them helpless and silent to the triumphant ex * ultations of their neighbour at Ferney , and the indignant taunticgs of their fellow-citizen J . J . Rousseau . JYL C .
aiKl hia paity , in the present day , have shewn themselves worthy imitators of their ancestors and models in subterfuge . Why have they , for so many
Dr. «/• Pye Smith In Reply To Professor Cheneviire, On The Late Theological Controversies At Geneva.
Dr . «/• Pye Smith in Reply to Professor Cheneviire , on the late Theological Controversies at Geneva .
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No . CCXX 1 L ] JUNE , 1824 . [ Vol . XIX .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/1/
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