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me ? ' Thesfc wdrds Mare characteristic Of all Ms ptoraedings : Irfs ^ ftrstcc ^ . sideration iis the opinion M ineii ^ the ^ uflfira ^ e ofhis felloiv-erea ^ iii ^ s ^ &V& general criminations can lie answered
oiily by the fevMeiuteof % ij&tfs | Mi&-ral character , and , I truslv ^ JMFl ftf ^ wil l amply reflite them , by a patient cx > & tinuation in weH-dpinj ^ With reg&ftt to the egotistical question imputed to liim , I can only remark ;; t&it'M . C / sprejudices and injustice make him an
inadmissible witness ^ and that we cannot judge' of the case unless we khew the occasion and bearirigsj of the cojfcversation . It iniy fce , that vanity is a temptatidn to which ? M . ML is J > ecu ^ Karly liable : for ^ neith er he ixor Ms
friends imagine him to be sinless , and I am perfectly certairi that he will fee grateful for the rebuke of an enemy . On the other hand , it is Equally probable that , at some peculiar conjunct
ture of his very trying circumstances , he might be innocently and even laudably desirous of knowing- the state of public opinion ; and such an inquiry might be very properly made to M . C , between wKoni ancr himself there
formerly , as I have reason to think , subsisted an intimate friendship / 3 . Mr . B . has this striking paragraph : " I confess M . Malan ' s doctrine of Final Perseverance , or , that
' when a man is become a chosen vessel , one of the elect , he cannot afterwards fall from salvation , whatever crimes he may commit > * appears to me more likely to encourage presumption and spiritual pride , than the Christian virtue of humility ; nor can I see how the moral conduct of the Genevese
would be improved by adopting it . " Had Mr . B . taken no more pains to become acquainted with facts and hypotheses in geology , than he has done to inform himself upon theological doctrines , he would never have
acquired the respect which he enjoys as a lecturer and an author . Some ignorant and wicked Antinomians may have used such language as he has recited : but they are not Calvinisis . I challenge him to justify his
statement by fair citations from Calvin or Malan , or any Calvinistic author of credit , whether ancient ot modern ; Is he ignorant that the very word , salvation , meatts deliverance from sin ? His representation is a contradiction in terms . As weU might one
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btitheiafe Theol&gieai Controversies at * Geheva ; dfs
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strict economy , | Vf . M . rnay have gained > in thef WMj |^ tiirie , about ^ £ 60 ( K This is indeed ti lafg ^ r ; amount than I
had previously imagined ^ it woiild tttrri out : I sinfeer ^ ly wish that it' may be near the truth . Btit it is hot more than his toils and suflferiipgs have well earned . TVbin his labours as a mi ^
jnister he derives iio emolument ; but , on tke contrary , has ^ to sustain the expenses of his chapel and Sundays school , besides other works of beneficence . A mercantile gentleitian , who knows more of M ; M . ' s
establishment and affairs than I do , arid to whom I haVe shewn iny calctila- ^ tion , assures me thatt he believes M ; M . has - not realized a sum that approaches to iny estimate . *' 2 . Mr . B . " recites a conversation
between M . M « and the minister of the English Episcopalian Chtirch at Geneva , which certainly exhibits the former as not a littlie deficient in good sense and humility , bat abundant in spiritual pride . Every candid man ; however , will admit that stories of
tins kind are peculiarly liable to disfigurements . Mr . B . does not say that he was present , or even that he had his information directly from Mr * Rooke . The latter was brqbably the
case ; and I am far from inQpugning the testimony of that respectable clergyman : Mt the omission of a few words , and various other means , may give an effect to such a recital * that will be cohsiderablv remote from the
truth . I presume that none of M . M . 's enemies will detiy him to be a man , not only of good understanding , but of superior mind . It appears next to incredible that he should be guilty of such egregious weakness , on
any occasion , and especially in society which so obviously required him to be on his guard . Besides , I have satisfactory " evidence that the young gentleman alluded to did attend very frequentl y upon the ministry of Mr . Rooke : and this fact alone seems to
throw a shade of discredit upon the story . For the sake of brevity I passed by a similar attempt of M . Ohenevifcre to create prejudice against M . Malan , by representing him as a man of excessive
vanity . He says , " I remember one day when we met in the city , he did not hesitate to a ^ k me the question , ' What do men think -of vol
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1824, page 673, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2530/page/33/
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