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were purified by tlieir virtuous energies . With respect to " the doctrine of Divine influence in the conversion and sanctification of souls , " is your correspondent a stranger in our Jerusalem , and does he not know that this
doctrine has also its various shades ; that our most respected friend and champion at Bristol has carried it somewhat farther than many of us can follow him ( Mon . Repos > , XIV . 545—650 ); and that there is a sense in which we may 3 . 11 be disposed to admit it ? But suppose I do not admit it in any sense —shall I speak less respectfully of my ancestors because , being men , they held some errors I Surely not . I respect them for the virtues on account of which I have spoken in their praise ; nor do I doubt that , if I knew
your correspondent , " A Calvinist , " better , I should find in him much to esteem . Already I believe that his heart is good ; and if the admissions of his creed are false—we know he is fallible—I am not sure that mine are not so too . I esteem and love many Calvinists ; if I did not , I should be a most unworthy brother . I only desire , if I am in the right , that they were even as I am ; and , while I think myself so , I shall offer up this prayer . I . W . P . S . In a letter just received from a friend , I read , — " The * Calvinist '
of the Repository seems open to an assault on the ground of his bearing this questionable title , under the surmise tlxat Le vieux Monsieur Chauvin , L ^ gislateur et Pasteur de Geneve , fut absolutnent infaillible . To Christ , as an accredited plenipotentiary , we attribute infallibility , and therefore profess to follow him implicitly in faith ,
hope and love . But is this follower of a blind guide prepared to admit that he is , to all intents and purposes , a soldier of Calvin ' s train bands ? Is he devoted to his theory of tactics in his Institute , and resigned to his orders and generalship , as under the banner of another Messiah ? Is not this Popery at Geneva , the Rome of the Reformation , as it has been called ?"
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as one of their body- Generally they have not ; but I confess for one , that when I have read his Sermon on the Use of Scripture Language , and indeed his works passim , I have been inclined to suspect that he was no distinct believer in the peculiar doctrines of his Church . He
subscribed the Articles , I apprehend , in his owr sense , and as articles of peace . His posthumous Sermons savour more of # l orthodoxy" than any thing which he published in his lifetime ; but is not the orthodoxy here in words merely ? Could not an Unitarian , of a larg-e conscience and of a
conciliatory temper , have said all that Paley preached to his parishioners ? That Paley lias been claimed by some Unitarians , would appear from a passage in the Memoir of the Rev . Philip Chase , son of Bishop Chase , of Ohio , who was lately in this
country , inserted in the Missionary Register for December . This young man , who died March 1 , 1824 , aged 25 years , was educated at Harvard University . Alluding to this heterodox Transatlantic seat of learning , the biographer says of Mr . Chase , " He abhorred the attempt , so often made ,
to share in the Saviour's work ; and made it a subject of incessant thanksgiving to God , that he had been so mercifully preserved from what he considered the melancholy error in the creed of the respectable University wherein he received his education . "
To this passage is subjoined the following note : " Mr . Chase always expressed the highest respect for many in the government of the College , ( and particularly for President Kirk land , ) both
as scholars and governors . He thought very highly also of his 'Alma Mater / in regard to literary advantages ; but he always spoke with great warmth of the danger to which young men of talents were exposed from Unitarian sentiments . A classmate ( who was
not , however , in his division ) says , ' It was related one ^ d ay after recitation , that , on one of the Tutors or Professors mentioning to the class that Dr . Paley was a Unitarian , Mr . Chase modestly contradicted the assertion , and firmly stated some reasons for his denial of the fact *" Whatever credit be due to this an-
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mm Sir , YOUR Reviewer repeats , ( p . 39 , ) after Mr . Wellbeloved , that the Unitarians have not claimed Dr . Paley
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1825, page 73, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2533/page/9/
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