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Oonvqnticute de Rolle in his hand , he formerly said that neither M . Malan nor any Calvinist author of credit had maintained such a doctrine . * Dr . Smith is , I am sure , too sensible a man , $ nd too-good a logician , to
expect that his bringing other passages from RL Malan ' s writings in praise of & > holy life , should be received as proof by the readers of the Monthly Repository , that he has not written what I have alleged , and what may be found in the Conventicule de Rolle .
The man who is convicted of uttering base coin , cannot clear himself by shewing that a few pieces of good money were mixed with it to make it current : after the most plausible arguments of the most skilful pleader , the base coin will still remain base *
The letters of Dr . Smith are , I believe , intended to influence a very different class of readers , men with ** self-opening Bibles , " that shew , without effort , all the texts that support their own opinions - men who view only one side of a question , and carefully close
the other eye against the admission of contrary testimony : such readers , Dr . Smith well knows , will receive implicitly all that he says , without farther inquiry . One of these religious monoculi 9 a worthy Calvinist divine , was lately in company with an old friend of miue from the North , and said to
him , How could your friend Mr jBakeivell get so far wrong , and commit such errors as he has dune in his controversy with Dr . Smith ? To which my friend replied , What are the arguments or statements which Mr . JB . has advanced , that you
consider as the most objectionable ? The Calvinist minister paused a moment , and then candidly confessed that he had never seen or read a page which I had written , but that all his information on the subject was derived from Dr . Smith . Among readers of this kind Dr . Smith knows that he is sure
of an easy triumph , whatever position he may maintain , if he keep within the pale of orthodoxy . On such ground he may unfurl the banner of victory , and ' * torture one poor creed a thousand ways" to prove that it does not contain the doctrine which it most
expressly enforces . Here I conclude with seriously and See Mod , RepoH , XIX . 673 .
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respectfully suggesting to Dr . Stmtli , that if the following assertions , If 6 sim 9 however grievous 9 can finally separate the elect from God ; " *\ Jilt
the sins which the elect commit or fall into after justification take p lace with " in the house of safety , ana cannot endanger their salvation "—I say , if suah or similar assertions do not mean what
the words imply , in the name of truth Qpd common sense discard them at once . We cannot doubt that Calvin and the authors of the Westminster Catechism gave a fearful substantiality to their doctrines \ to soften them
down and explain them away , as Dr * Smith attempts to do , appears to iue , to use his own expressive words , to Ue . drawing the heart ' s blood frpin the system , and leaving it a lifeless and unmeaning form . ROBT . BAKEWELL .
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Sir , Dec 21 , 1825 . t I ^ HE following illustration of a JL well-known passage in the proem of John ' s Gospel may perhaps gratify some of vour readers .
The celebrated French Chronicler ^ Froissart , describes in the following terms the authority of William of Wickam , who was Chancellor of England under Edward HI . : v m ~ t wv rf" » 4 " * . ? / " % * -w * v \ r ~\ » - »^ v / -m » v % f \ m ^ w vt * - *» * -v mm s * v t- % 4 * ***** " En temps regnoit prestre
ce ung , qui an appelloit raessire Guillaume de Wickam ; I eelluy Guillaume de Wickam estoit si bien in la grace du Hoi Angleterre que par lui estoit tout faicty et sans luy en lee faisoit riens . " In tlie New Testament the gospel
dispensation is continually represented as the kingdom , or rather the reign of God upon earth . Jesus Christ is uniformly described as the principal agent , or , if we pursue the same metaphor , as the prime minister of the
Deity , in the government of the moral world . The Evangelist John , in order to represent how high he stood in the favour of the Sovereign , and how superior he was to all the other instruments of Divine power , uses
metaphoricall y almost the identical language , which the French historian employs literally : " Through him all things were done , " ( or came to pass , ) " and without him nothing was done that \ vu 3 done . ' * A YORK STUDENT .
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86 M . Huhqts Conventicule de Rolle . —Proem of John * $ Gospel
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/22/
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