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Geneva , Sir , September 17 , 1824 . YOU have inserted in your Maga z | pp the injurious lajigufige Mr
P . Smith hue thought proper to pik dress to me . I expected civility from those gentlemen ^ but , in unmasking sectaries , pne should expect their wrath . The insults I have received do
jiot alter the facts advanced b y me , frto t ^ utU of wh ich I warrant . If Mr . South had had sound reasons to offer , &p would have written differently . — litye see t ] h $ t be was embarrassed by
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9 f humanity and truth / ' But let pne venture to ask y < ip * my &ord , if yojt have examined the doptpnes of Uitftarians with the same candour and attention that you have hestowed upon tb ^ ir Kv 4 es ? It is , J assure you , ii& ? possible for me to believe so , whea I
hear you making the strange ^ sser * tion , that ¦ «* may , amidst the sorrows and cares of itjbis life , required sojnething ippre consoling , more heart- * sustaining :, than their cold and precise doctrines / ' What , my IjoihJI
More consoling and heart ^ staxgingf thai * $ fe $ t Qo 4 is love ; that he tQfrk so peculiar an interest in the welfare of our r ^ ce as to send his belovefl Son for our salvation ; and that life and immortality are brought to light by the resurrection of Jesus from the
dead ? is there " coldness" in these views , my X * or $ ? Would tp God that you were altogether In our predicament * save and except our civil disabilities . We are persuaded ijt Is owing to the influence of association that you thus stigmatize our doc
trines . They are not connected in your mind with warm , elegant , cushioo ^ d churches , a magnificent arnd comfortable estatdishment , your own youthful recollections-, and perchance your past religious experience , which in general has no intrinsic dependence
on metapliysical dogmas . Strip the subject of these accidental associations , and we are persuaded that so far from feeling our religious views cold , you will perceive in them a warmth and efficaciousness not to be
despised , although they do not imply the crucifixion of the Deity and the eternity of helUtonnents . And do you mention it as an objection to oiir doctrines that they ar $ previse I &C &c . &c .
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$ 92 M * Qheneyi&rem J ^ e /^ nQe ^ his Stjayment .
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a statement of faete . He would hare bc > e » pie ^ d if J , b&d been declama ^ tory , as he accuses m ^ e of being ; in that case an answer , however superficial , would have been easier to write . He seems to have taken my reasons for insults , for he sends me insults in reply ,, instead of ; reasons , Mr . Haldane has ^ iven us his Com - mentary en the Epistle to the Romans under another form ; it is not read niore than formerly : the d ^ e is « till too strong . He has fallen into such gross errors , that I mi ^ ht treat jiim with thfe epitliets vrhicli be and his friends hftve so Kfe ^ ally hestowed on me ; but I think that we should keep ewn with
^ o ^ e tfritts Antagonists , and that persons may have l > een mistaken without having intended or wished to deceive . Mr . Haldane , yvho mm& to Geneva , and who professes to have
heard me preach , perpetually « on * founds me with another -clergyman , whose actions he attributes to me : he asserts that it was I who , in the pulpH , replied to M , Cellerier after he had attacked those who do not admit
the coasubstaiitiality of the word : — this is a mistake , I was not the parson ; He attributes to me a sermon on the Mysteries , in which he says I have contradicted the gospel : it is not I who preached the discourse on that sulnect to which he alludes . He states
that I preached on Cornelius , holding m % the eittjriple of « man Who was accepted of God without the knowledge of the gospel : it was another pastor who at that time composed a discourse on Cornelius , of the drift of which I am igaorant . He asserts that I have confessed that the Pastors of
Geneva have fallen ^ very low in public estimation , and he proceeds from that point as an acknowledged fact , &c . &c . If I were as illr-bred as those gentlemen , I should take delight in justly letortiflg the abusive expres *
sions which they use respecting me , whether through the medium of the press , or of private letters , as has been done , with unparalleled rudeness , by Mr . Htxher-Strutt , whose unpardonable conduct towards the Reverend
Rook I have made known ; bftt I relinquish to them the practice of incivibi ; jr . I » ow confirm ail that I have written » on the Theological Ck )» tisoversies originated at Geneva by the men I
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 592, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/16/
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