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fcween whom and Mr . Sihitti there seems to be a strong symp ^ hetie resemblance . I allude to © r . Miller . Both are Calvinists ; both champions of their cause ; both smooth as oil ; but containing * under a sweet and fair exterior of style , & miserable
bitterness , which seems to partake almost of tjie spirit of that malignant personification in whom they believe , and of whom they profess to be afraid , © lit Dr . Miller , I allow , quite beats his competitor in this last-mentioned quality . He is a great deal more liquid , but a great deal more acrid ,
and presents an unrivaled specimen *> f that smiling and hating " , caressing and stabbing , praying and denouncing , Messing and cursing , weeping and vindictive compound , which is seldom seen on this earth , but in a few rare instances of exquisite and essential Calvinism .
It is an amusing spectable to witness Orthodoxy reading lectures to Unitariamsm against intolerance . Providence , I believe , has lately permitted one or two little " fantastic tricks " to be played in the insignificant canton of Geneva for three purposes ; partly , 4 o shew how the most remote and
unexpected evil influences must necessarily spring from ecclesiastical establishments of an originally intolerant character ; partly to suggest the great solemn doctrine of a moral retribution going on even 3 n this world ; but K principally , by exciting the clamorous
and sympathetic indignation of orthodox Christians throughout Europe , to push home into their very bosoms a living personal lesson of the wickedness of persecution , bigotry and unchatitableness , and mercifully to entrap them into improvement by a condemnation drawn out of their own mouths .
Whoever reads Mr . Smith ' s letters to M . Chenevrfere , must perceive , that while a few rough blows descend upon the shoulders of his immediate victim , and many more of them take no effect
upon him , the most vigorous and searching lashes of his scorpion fall far beyond , arousing all the echoes with the shrieks of guilty and startled orthodoxy .
Was ever challenge so mad as that wherein this writer dares the Professor of Theology at Geneva to present citations that may ju « t 3 fy his faifchfttl fepresetrtatians of Calvinism ? A si-
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niSar challenge w ^ s fhWwli down hi this country at Prtffestadr Norton , tff Cambridge . But , before lonig , th at learned writer brought out a mass of extracts from the most authentic anfi
received Calvinistic divines , which actually frightened and surprised his rash opponents , and either reduced them to utter silence , or compelled them to shift altogether their ground of attack . Mr . Smith , I think , must have for one
moment forgotten into what an awful magazine he has presumed to cast his contemptuous spark . Bigotry of the Evangelical Magazine * The P . S . of this contributor suggests a very apt illustration of the subject I have last touched upon .
Correspondence between Mr . Howe and Lord Erskine . A green spot , on which I have breathed , and reel refreshed . Review . Worsley on Nonconformity . Being myself a descendant from the Nonconformists of England , I need
not very strongly assure the Reviewer with what gratification I have perused his interesting article . Mr Worsley ' s production , 1 should think , was fortunately timed in appearing nearly at the same period with Mr . Southey ' s engaging and specious Book of the Church . ( Woe worth the affected
title 1 ) Muste Solitetrite * It is to be hqped your correspondent is not so entirely absorbed in the practice of music as to prevent his giving us id ore of his discriminating and tasteful speculations . A department occasionally devoted to sacred music and other fine
arts would not be unappropriate to the general purposes of the Repository . Many useful remarks might be made on such subjects , and a true taste in consequence be extensively encouraged and preserved . Poetry Thoughts on the Influences of Religion . And it is poetry .
Satiric Fragment on the Trinity . I once saw a proposition of Euclid ( Book I . Theor . 5 ) rendered into verse . A theolog-ical argument in poetry on the Trinity seems to belong to an analogous class of literature . But there is both talent and wit in this
fragment . Is it a eomphitoent or otherwise to say , that tiiftoy things about it render it worthy of bfcing imagined a suppressed portion of XXoft Juan >
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39 £ Critical Synopsis of the Monthly depository for July , 18 fc 4 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/8/
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