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    casion , lie replied to questions which had been intermingled with the most affectionate language , by follpWiiig up hfe ^ subtle distinctions with ai * ijnmoveable air , his harsh tone

    contrastlast , communicated officially to the Cons | istory > and ^ by Hie Consistory to the body of the ctefgy , sfews ttet M % Malan refuses to submit to the darters of the Corisistory , which debar him

    ing with the fraternal emotion of the superior who addressed him . On this occasion , without giving any answer to the Consistory-, he presented to the Government a petition which he had prepared , in which he declared tUat

    he separated himself , as a minister of God , and as a citizen , from the Protestant Church of the Canton ; he prayed the Council no longer to regard him as a member of the Church in which he was born ; he affirmed

    that he could not submit , even for a moment , to the order which had just been given him , which was opposed to the injunction of the gospel , to preach the ivord of God ; he claimed the unrestrained exercise of the Christian

    religion , and demanded the toleration granted to the members of the English Church , to the Moravians , to the Independents , and to the Jews . * The answer sent him by the Council of State was , that his declaration of having departed from the National Church should be communicated to

    the Consistory ; that as to the toleration he implored , he must be aware that it was assured by the institutions of the country to all those who respected them ; that the Independents , to whom he alluded , had escaped notice , by avoiding offence to the acknowledged religions ; but that the toleration of them would cease if it

    became injurious to the public welfare combined with the laws of the country . The Consistory , having been apprised by the Council of State that M . Malan had in writing declared

    himself no longer of the National Churca , made known his separation to the body of the clergy , who , after taking the subject into consideration , transmitted to M , Malan the following resolution :

    " Whereas , the letter written by M . C 6 s&r Malan to the Honourable Council of State , dated the 14 th of August * omitted the performance of no service , but immediately disregarded the prohibition of exercising any ecclesiastical function .

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    from the exercise of the clerical functions : further ; considering' that Mi Malan formally declares in that letter that he separates himself , as a citizen and as a minister of God , from the

    Protestant Church of our Canton , arid that he claims to be regarded as no longer responsible to the Honourable Council of State in spiritual matters ; or looked upon as a member of the Church in which he was born ' :

    conceiving that he who separates himself from a Church deprives himself , by his separation , of the degrees and titles obtained as a member of that Church , the Pastors register the declaration of

    M . Malan , and regard him henceforth as degraded from his office , and deprived of the ecclesiastical character , conferred on him by the National Church of Geneva / 1

    Notwithstanding these prohibitions to exercise his ministry in the Canton ; notwithstanding that he was deposed by the competent body , M . Malan continues to conduct religious worship in his chapel , in defiance of the civil and religious authority . Such is the faithful recital of the

    proceedings of the Genevan clergy under embarrassing circumstances . Hitherto , their determinations aiid their intentions have been misrepresented ; and facts have been distorted : it was necessary to rectify errors on the

    subject ; it was important to place in its true light the conduct of a man who has shewn himself as eager to bring the Pastors of Geneva into discredit , as tQ promote the triumph of Methodism . [ To be concluded in the next Number . ]

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    Feb . 2 , 1824 . Notes on Passages of Scripture . ISA . xiv . 10 : " All they shall accGst thee , and say unto thee , j 4 rt thpu even thou , become weak as we ? Art thou become like unto us ?"

    It were superfluous , to point out the grand and beautiful features of the ode , in which these inquiries are found . This has long since been done , by a writer who possessed eimnent

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    Notes on Passages of Scriptures 75

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/11/