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Mr . Bakewet&s concluding Remarks on the Present State of Geneva , 8 fc > , 739
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nexed to the Ecclesiastical Polity 3 p . 513 , ed- 1639 * J . PYE SMITH .
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reminding him that the paragraphs from which he has garbled hie extracts sufficiently declared it . '• Not that I , in any degree , make human authority the ground of faith ; but to shew Mr . B . that there are
matters which he has not yet learned , and which are well deserving of Im libost serious study , I transcribe a passage from a writer *) f no mean name , who was certainly an acute and penetrating man , and whom the Anglican Church proverbially designates as the judicious .
"We do not teach Christ aloue , excluding our own faith , unto Justification ; Christ alone , excluding our own works , unto Sanetification ; Christ alone , excluding the one or the other as unnecessary unto Salvation . It is a childish cavil wherewith , in the
matter of Justification , our adversaries do so greatly ptease themselves ; exclaiming that we tread all Christian virtues under our feet , and require nothing in Christians but faith , because we teach
that faith alone justifieth . Whereas , by this speech we never meant to exclude either hope or charity from being always joined as inseparable mates with faith , in the man-that is
justified , or works from heing added as necessary duties required at the bands of every justified man : but to shew that faith is the only hand which putteth on Christ unto Justification , and Christ the only garment which , being so put on , covereth the shame of our defiled natures , hidetli the
imperfection of our works , preserveth « s blameless in the sight of God , before whom otherwise the weakness of our faith were cause sufficient to make us culpable , yea , to shut us from the kingdom of heaven , where nothing that is not absolute can enter . —How
then is our salvation wrought by Christ alone ? Is it our meaning , that nothing is requisite to man ' s salvation , but Christ to save , and he to be saved quietly without any more ado ? No ; we acknowledge no such foundation . As we have received , so we teach , that , besides the bare and naked work wherein Christ , without any other
associate , finished all the parts ot our redemption , and purchased salvation himself alone , for conveyance of this eminent blessing unto us , many tilings are of necessity required / ' Hook-£ R ' s Discourse of Justification , an-
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Mr . Bakewell ' s concluding Remarks on the Present State of Geneva , in Reply to Dr . J . Pye Smith . Letter IV .
Torrington Square , Bloomsbury , Sik , Dee . 9 , 1824 . AM aware that your readers may I think the controversy respecting Geneva has already been protracted to a length beyond what . its importance may merit , and I hasten to con ^ elude Avhat I have farther to remark
on the subject . I consider all the main points which 1 have advanced , respecting the state of morals in that city , to be in a great measure confirmed by Dr . Smith ' s last letter : he candidly admits that the Genevese , in the time of their ' * coerced
orthodoxy" in the 16 th and 17 th centuries , were very likely to have the sins of "hypocrisy , canting , avarice , cheating and secret abomination . " It is difficult , nay , impossible , to conceive how the departure from this system could be productive of the moral degeneracy which Dr . Smith in his former letters
confidently asserts to have been the case . When Dr . Smith is called upon to prove the gross immorality and dissolute manners of the Genevese , he cites two instances to make good the accusation ; the one , of a mob havinguttered profane expressions ( which the Genevese say wa 3 not true *);
* With ifespect to the mob and outcry at Geneva , mentioned by Dr . Smith , never having h ^ ard of it when 1 was the re L wrote to a friend to know how far the account jof Dr . S . was correct—he informs me , that when Messrs . Guers and Empaytaz first formed a congregation , chiefly of young men and women , they assembled in the evening in an obscure part of the town . The novelty of the thing drew
together at first a number of persons , principally children , who brought lanterns , and cried , * ' Down with the Momiers , " but the magistrates afterwards sent genS ' d ' armes to preserve the peace and to protect the new sect . With
respect to the cry of ' * Down with Jesus Christ , " from the strictest inquiries it does not appear that it was ever uttered My friend nays , iC Ce cri n ' e&t en notre pays dans la btfvche < le cceur de per * sonne . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 739, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/35/
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