On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
secret shame , the dissatisfaction which they get from , $ Jieir useless speculations ; and they will feel the need of exchanging their nothing for at least something , though that something should be happiness / ' ( P . 65 . ) If Mr . M . bad not thought himself bound to tell all that he could
recollect of his conversations at Rolle , I should have said that all this had better have been confined to his friend's parlour . But , at all events , Mr . Bakewell * s interpretation is evidently erroneous . The expression , ne les ecrasons pas , &c , was required to be strong from the nature of the antithesis j but the meaning is manifest : an emphasis is evidently laid upon " notre censure , notre indignation /' and thus the object clearly is to repress the feelings of impatience and to inculcate moderation and
submission . Pope ' s well-known stanza ( " Let not this weak , unknowing hand , " &c . ) expresses the very same sentiment , and by the same kind of figure . If Mr , B . be consistent with his imputations on Malan , he ought to say that the poet " laid claim" to the power of hurling the thunderbolts of heaven and dealing damnation
upon men , I ^ yould suggest to Mr . B . that " glorify yourselves" ( p . 642 ) is not the proper translation of the French verb , which , though reflective , means no more than to glory , boast or eocult . If I had time or room to introduce
the whole passage that refers to Mr . Robert Haldane , it would shew how greatly misplaced are Mr . B / s attempted witticisms upon that gentleman and his mode of scriptural instruction . One of the kindest wishes
that I could form for Mr . B . would be , that he might imitate Mr . Haldane in the seriousness and impartiality of his researches , the comprehensiveness of his scriptural studies , and the justness of his principles of interpretation .
Mr . B . further displays how little lie is acquainted with the subjects on which he writes so confidently , when he intimates that the Calvinist denies " that men shall be judged by their
works . " The only sense in which this proposition can be rationally understood is that in the future judgment all the real indication of moral state aad character will be placed in full view , as evidences of the equity of
Untitled Article
the sentence . This is .. wh&t ey ^ ry Calvinist aiid . ^ ver ^ f- Cb ^ liJ ^^ li ^ i l ^^ I could adduce quotations tb this £ ^ feet , almost without end , frojri CaJ ^ ia and the most accredited Calyinlstic ^ ii « . thors : but I must forbear . ., , '
Mr . B ^ s concluding paragraph js tates that " an attempt is faking to derive the people of this county , ap <} t # confound both the governinent& ' ^ fijiajt of Geneva and that of the ^ Canfpn of Vaud ] together in a general cliarge of intolerance . " I wish he . had tqlcj us who are guilty of this misrepre ^ eur tation . In the discussions which took
place in the Body of the London D ^ - senting Ministers upon the Persecu tions in the Vaud , the most distinct exception and honourable testimony were made in favour of the Genevese
Government : nor has the calumny mentioned by Mr . B . met me iuauy other way . —Having touched upon this subject , I hope that your readers will forgive me if I say , in repl y to a r < emarkeron the Resolutions of the
Dissenting Ministers , in the Repository for July last , ( p . 405 , ) that , cm the facts alleged , he has . perhaps ceased to be sceptical , if he has read the last number of the Edinburgh Review ;
that private efforts were first made through the medium of His Majesty ' s Foreign Secretary , to effect a favourable change in the measures of the Lausanne government , but without success ; that the circumstance of a
certain individual having been the Chairman on that occasion arose from no design or preconcerted plan , but was solely occasioned by the ordinary routine of proceedings ; and that a subscription for the relief of the sufferers was publicly begun before the publication of his remarks . J . PYE SMITH .
Untitled Article
734 Mr * Johns on Ordination Services .
Untitled Article
Sir , IN offering my concluding remarks on Ordination Services , I will endeavour to be as brief as possible , and confine myself strictly to what has been urged in their favour , ort < trie score of utility and scriptural
authority . Let it not be supposed by any one that I wish to detract from the utitfty of public religious se ^ vice ^ and ^ acts of devotion in general . I am wilting to acknowledge , that whcjhejf * stated , occasional or extraordinary , ( &s in the
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page 734, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/30/
-