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6 ^ 2 Dr . •/ . Pye Sm ith * s Rejoinder to Mr . BakeiuelVs Remarks
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MJ * writings ^ or frequented bU religious services , or took any sufficient pains to inform himself cprrectly on these sufcgects . When JVL Malan exclaims , "If we , or an angel frojifc
heaven , preach any other gospel unto you , let him be ( anathema ) accursed : — -which , indeed , is not another ; but there are some who trouble you , and desire to alter the Gospel of Christ , ( Gal . L 8 , 7 — Unitarian Improved Version , )—he does no more than recite one of the most certain and awful
TRUTHS Of INSPIRATION ; a aiQIUtlOR which it infinitely behoves every Christian to consider and apply , according to his sincere judgment and conscience . But in all the passages of this kind which I have met with in M .
JVL's writings , he only urges principles $ he does pot make personal applications . Indeed , he seems to me to go the utmost length of charitable indulgence that an honest man , who bows to the word of the Most High , can possibly do . As evidence I will insert a few sentences from the most
doctrinal of all his publications that I have seen : " I think , my dear friends , that we ought to be extremely reserved , extremely cautious , in the judgment which we pass on the faith of others . You know that it belongs to Him who searches the hearts , to know what
passes there ; and no where in the holy Scriptures do we find this prerogative conferred upon men . I should then fear to speak confidently upon such a question as this . I hope that every where , and particularly in our own Switzerland , there is a
goodly number of ministers faithful to their Master . " — Another person ii ^ the Dialogue then makes an objection , to which he replies ; " Certainly , we ought to try the spirits , from fear of being led astray by falsehood : and I cannot but hiame , or rather
pity , those persons who neglect to compare what is preached to them with the word of God , and who fancy they have heard that word because they have heard a sermon . But do me the favour to observe , that it is
one thing to carry on this examination for one ' s self , with matured jpd &i ment ^ n $ charity , and for the purpose of directing one's own personal conduct - y ; uul another thing to take upon us to do so for others , and to utter the anathema against a . minister , be-
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cause his preaching does not entirely satisfy us , or even because his manners have not all that strict propriety . which is of undoubted importance . — If a minister fey another foundation—"
[ than that pf the gospejj— «« I withdraw from him , according to the exr press command of the apostle ; and I exhort ; mem ta avoid him M { ith more care than they would the most pestilential contagion . But he must have publicly made kflOAvn his false doer
trine . I would carefully guard myself against judging him by appearances , or by mere inferences . In this respect , I repeat it , we cannot exercise too great caution . " ( Conventicule de Rolle , 1821 , pp . 3 , 4 , 7- A real , not a fictitious conversation . )
III . Mr . Bakeweli has made repre * sentations of M . Malan , upon some other points , whiclf require correction . 1 . To justify M . Chenev&re ' s assertion that " the gates of fortune have beei * opened before him , " Mr . €€
B . says , He [ M . Mf | had , when I was at Geneva , eight or nine pupils , who paid , as I was informed , each 200 Napoleons per annum , or about < £ J 160 sterling : now , with these terms , and the Genevese style of living , he could
scarcely gain less than ^ € 900 clear profit each year , a sum which he could hardly have realized in thirty years , from the small salary of which he was deprived , as a minister of the Genevese Church . " Mr . B . has made
this calculation look favourably upon his own argument by considerably under-rating- the expenditure and over-rating the receipts . M . M . began to take pupils in the spring of in
1819 , at ^ 100 a year ; and 1821 or 1822 , he found it necessary to raise his terms to ^ 120 . The average number of pupils , down to this time , has been six . The outfit of beds and
furniture for them , was to t > e provided for ; his children have increased from four or five to seven - and he must have required two or three domestic servants . From some of the pupils and their friends I have learned that
his es , tablishnieqt has been conducted \ n < i liberal manner , ar * d that he has maintained a becoming generosity and hospitality . Having derived my information from these sources ,- ; I have ventured to draw out ar > estimate for every year , to the close of 1824 ; by whicl } it appeals that * if he has used
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1824, page 672, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2530/page/32/
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