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at a timely moment to check many symptoms of folly among the Irish leaders , by vrhich their enemies would well know how to profit . We hope we shall hear no more of the suicidal policy of insulting their English brethren , because , being less under the immediate lash of oppression , they are less skilled in the arts of bullying ;—because they have neither gone so far at one time in sacrificing principle to the attainment of an object as Mr . O'Connell shewed himself disposed to go three years since , nor are prepared at present to run into the other extreme of rejecting every thing without giving themselves even the trouble of hearing what is .
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[ Translated from the Theologische Studien , &c . See last No ., p . 50 . ] Every theological fragment , however small , is interesting , of a man like Melancthon . A great mind is visible even in trifles , and in any case affection knows how to appreciate what comes from such a being . The few and , as far as my knowledge goes , unpublished lines of Melancthon which I shall communicate , are a token of affection ; he wrote them in the beginning of
the Bible of a friend ( at least of one whom he had befriended ) in order to record in his memory , by a short thesis , the sum of the Christian belief . They are in an edition of the Bible of the year 1534 , in fol ., illuminated with very beautiful wood-cuts , which is now in the public library at Hamburg . From the date , 1552 , affixed to this short confession and word of consolation , it follows that it was penned by Melancthon at an important period . About that time the Augsburg and Leipzig Interim had only just begun to
exhibit their injurious results . Melancthon was violently attacked by Flacius and suspected by the stern Lutherans ; the council of Trent was again opened , and was to be set in order by the Protestants . With this view , Melancthon had composed the Confessio Saxonica , ( Repetitio Conf . Aug ., ) and set out with two Saxon theologians towards Trent . On the , 22 nd of Jan ., 1552 , they arrived at Nurenburg , where they remained openly , in obedience to the command of Maurice . All negociations were now broken off by the daring
enterprise of the youthful hero of Protestantism against the Emperor in the spring of 1552 . In the succeeding August , the treaty of Passau followed . At the period of these great occurrences , the following was written by Melancthon : the exact point of time is not decidedly given . The little piece has a particular interest , inasmuch as it is written in German , though not in the powerful language of a Luther . On this account I give it exactly in its antique form .
" Jesus Christ , the Son of God , says , in the 14 th chapter of John , € < ' If a man love me , he will keep my wor . ds : and my Father will love him , and we will come unto him , and make our abode with him / " This saying should be well known unto all men , and often examined , since therein are contained pure doctrine and the highest consolation .
' * First , as to doctrine—we are taught which is the true church of God , and where it is ; for it testifieth that the true church of God is that visible assembling which preaches the true doctrines of the gospel—learns , receives , and , receiving , acknowledges them . * In this visible assembling thou shalt be incorporated , and know that thyself art al « o a member of the true church , if
* Treaty of Augsburg . Couf ., Art . 7 .
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114 A small Relic of Melancthon .
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A SMALL RELIC OF MELANCTUON .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 114, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/42/
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