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    Dr . */ Ppe Smith in Reply to Professor Ckenevierey on the late Theological Controversies at Geneva * ( Continued tap . 324 . )

    Hdmerton , StR , July 10 , 1824 , ASK p ^ rMission to continue my I retoark ^ dn'M . eberierifere ' sSumititfiy of ' the Ifhetflogic&l Controversies &r Geneva . For the feake of order I

    keep the series of numerals from the last Ntiniber of tHfe Repository . III . It is ntft \ t little remarkable thstt M . C , who Is a limn of sense and a man of the wdrld , should make so piteoiis in outcry , because the religibus public has tak <* h upon itself

    to express its oprmtin concerning the doctrines and ehajr&icter 6 / the Genevese cter > gy . * Do ? s he re quire to be informed | h ^ t public frien , and especially public bodies , necessarily are , ¦

    arid ought to be , always exposed to the ob ^ ervatibn and Animadversion 6 f all ardtiiid theib ? In tliat ddiidl y sle 6 p of indifference arid infidelity Wliich had prevailed at Geneva for two or three generations ,

    If there appear some want of connexion , it must be attributed to the extracts beujg of those passages only which * e f 6 r to BeMgious Consistency . When tfte vtord <* Humrinfet" is used , it is not Intended distespefctftrtly , but to

    distinguish the Unitarian who helieVes only in the rear and proper humanity of Jesus Christ . Terms should be defined . The Friendi to Inquiry ^ defends " the Unitarian doctrine / ' and yet believes in the miraculous conception .

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    and had scarcely ' ever ffeft a disturbance till the ^ reseat -flay , it was no wonder that the professional teachers < of religion * like x ^ ertahi pastors of antiquity , ( see Isa . Ivi . If *—12 y ) were " sleeping , lyieg ^ down , and loving to i \ ¦

    slumber : " and that all around tlieiii were e ^ uaHy quiet and " dumb , " Truth , honour and relig-ion love the open day . It is only he " that doeth evil , that hateth the light , neither cometh to the light , lest his deeds should be discovered . " If the intern clergy of the Republic think that they

    hatfe kept p ^ ce with the : improvements of the age , in religion as well as in science and letters , that they have vanquished dotard prejudices , and exploded old errors , atid that they possess the nodn-day brightness of Christian truth , whose twilight only lighted upon their fathers;—why have they been so backward to cooamErtticate

    their blessedness ? GenuineTehgious knowledge inspires with a sense of its own value , and is associated with holy benevolence and Zeal . But what have these children of improvement ever done for the religious benefit of the dark and miserable districts which lie

    at their gates ; for Savoy , Piedmont and Le Valais ; the last of which , though an independent Republic , is scarcely above the level of Spain and Portugal ? Even since > the restoration

    of the barbarous and idiot govern meat of the King of Sardinia , the ' Christian piety and pity of those whom M . Chfcnevifere endeavours to hold up to scorn and cjoritempt , have found means to scatter some seeds of the bread of life

    in those rinfc&ppy Regions now prostrate under the talons of besotted superstition and blind ' tyranny . Biit during the sixteen yefttfs of golden opportunity , ivhile Savoy and Piedmont were annexed to ' France , what

    did the liberal and enlightened clergy of Geneva devise or attempt to diffuse the gospel , according ^ to their views of it , among- ? the inhabitants of throse lovely valleys ? On the last day of 1814 , a -Bible Society was formed at Geneva : tmt IVL C . ^ mufet

    bear with ipe while I bluntly remind him that , % o long as it was under a management' which he perfectly understands , it was little , if at all , better than a blind to 'the public , a covering for doing : nothing , a " rough garment worne to ^ dece ive . ^—^ Aad

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    404 Br . if . Btfe Smith in Repl y to Pr&ft&wr Qtohememe ,

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    with opimohs is wtot I chiefly wish to [ refers to ; i ^ nd here ydtfr professicais Tseaem to me most cteiigjeroras . If religioirs "eotamiunikm tie Dot a te&t of reJigteas utoity of semSment ; th ^ n mugt action cease to be rts * htd&& nas ati

    inhterpret © r bf conscience : then has all that 'has been said and done -and suffered for ' conscience and religion * s sarke be ^ n fo lly ; then were our Reformers madmen ; and the crowns of martyrs fit objects of ^ wise man * s

    scorn . Sach sentiment as yotirs are founded on what is called liberality , * and liberality le ^ ds to indifference , ctod inriifferenee is the vice of the age , which m ^^ t ? and wil l 1 ead to infideMty . *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 404, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/20/