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B { H ^ e umbrage vvastak ^ n at opef * . benevolent and pious ^ ecnirse of ostixm rf | tee ^ period of : his stay in Geneva . y ? as six or seven months * But the PIpae fetessing did not depWt from ibis vaiur
# | tjle labours . The good seed which he had sown took root , and sprang- up » and has borne some happy fruit . A day is coming * , I cannot doubt , when the grateful people of Geneva will record the fiana $ of Mr . Haldane as one of their noblest benefactors . *
III . fienty JDrummmid , Esq ^ Not having the honour ^ f knowi ng this gentleman , a&d haying received no precise information of his transactions at Geneva , I presume not to say much * If w ^ i »^ j « y age $ f M « G * s assertions in this instance , fay any rule of inferenee from the former exhibitions of
his veracity ; and candour , Mr . J ? , fn re ? - putation is in no dangei % He is well known to be a man of large benefit cence . I have heard pfih | a heroic zeal to distribute the Scriptures in Italy and other unpropitious places .
Probably he may have expressed himself with English warm th and .- ? bluntness * Perhaps he had to- repel insults a , nd calumnies . Perhaps he was unguarded in some respect or other . He might thus give occasion to the reprehension
* "V * Since tvrithig the above , I have reatd ; # ith itiuch satisfaction and pleasurfe , ' ^ imall volume , entitled DeUerfr ^ m Robert ifJaldane , Esq ., to M . J . J . Gheheviere 9 Sec &c , recently published at Edinburgh . In
ihis work Mr . H . temperately expostulates with M , C . upon his gross and numerous misrepresentations ; and he par * ticularly details the subjects and mode of the instruction which he communicated
to the numerous students at Geneva , who attended him , on three evenings in each week , through the winters of 1816 and 1317 , and till the summer-vacation . His text-book was the Epistle to the Romans ; and from that divine source he deduced the doctrines of the gospel , theirs holy
tendency , and thei * actual fruits , when since rely believed , in sanctity of heart and univfei-gal and persevering integrity of conduct . The book will richly reward an attentive perusal . Being chiefly occupied with tne most important doctrinal discussions , it contains little narrative .
I have been gratified in not having found any occasion for altering what I have written , except that the jteriod of Mr . H . ' s residing at Genevii - seems to have been longer , & ? id the number of his attendants greater , than I had supposed .
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** f th ^ Henouwble Syndics , whicV in f * G * inform ^ us he reoeked . AH tfiis « % ht be ; vand . yet Mr . yD , usfeay have no reason to be ashamed of his € ^ nd act . At all events ^ I must have better testimony than that of this accuser , before I can entertain a feeling of disrespect towardsj him .
IV , The , Advocate Grenus . This was a political jnan , who availed Uimself ^ ^ with considerable ideacterityif of the inconsistencies jo £ x ^ lie ^ lerfjr , in order to turn the forcevoi publlfe
opinion ag-ainst them . But he Jbtad , nevjer the slightest connexion with religious people . A friend of ^ mine at Geneva told me that he was generally understood to be an absolute infidel * To
conceive of him and his publications as in the smallest degree involved with the persons and proceedings in whose honest defence lam allowed to occupy your pasges , wfiuld be as near to the truth as to s&y that Wiikes and Cobbett were the coadjutors of Wesley and Wilberforce , Soi » e further inr
formation concermag thisi person will be found below , under No . VI . V . { The Pastors if . ? CeUerier 9 sens , and Mn Gaussen- The design of these gentlemen , in giving anew edition of the Helvetic Confession of Faitk , -was
to shew the world the perfect ahamv dity of the accusation brought against the new ^ Reformers fas I may reasonably call them ) of Geneva , that they are broachers of strange and uaheard of doctrines . A more innocent mea ^
sure could , hardly be conceived . It could not settle the points in controversy ; for both sides professed to regard the Scriptures as the only basis of authority . It could do no more than suspend obloquy , mollify prejudice , and suggest to all parties a more
kind and candid spirit of free inquiry . But , observe , Sir , the ground and principle of the alarm which the announcement of this intention produced in the clerical body . It was * as M . C . informs us , an apprehension " that the publication of such a worik might excite fresh disturbances : and that , if
Christians saw their teachers opposing each other , and exhibiting the Holy Scripture as self-contradictory , it would produce mistrust , and be injurious to their faith and piety / ' A most extraordinary State of the pubKe intellect is here , with great sh » plicity , Supposed . The cpnacieaces a ^ nd the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 471, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/23/
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