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    now , that a ^ handful of intelligent , pious and-active men hare endeavoured ( and , blessed be God I with some success ) to revive in their fellow-JPrtftes

    tants the feelings . and practice ? of vital religion , though their proceedings have been marked with candour , honesty and meekness , those worthy persons are overwhelmed with reproachful aecusations . But so it always has been . So . , it was at the time of the

    Reformation . So it was in the infancy of Christianity . " If ye were of the world , the world would love its own ; : but , because ye are not of the world , but I have chosen you out of the world , therefore the worid hateth you /*

    EV . M . C * and Ms party are continually representing the voluntary and the invoiun&u-y separatists from the Genevese Church 42 stabltehment , as restless * turbulent , and violators of

    the public peuGe . X have good reason for believing * hart -these representations are perfectly mntrue ; andl ! 4 hat they rest upon no foundations but the fact of these persons having : read , thought and acted for themselves in

    matters of religion ; their having frankly . professed ^ vhat they > believe to be tlie doctrines of the Scriptures ; and their having , < as * a neaessary and inevitable € onseqnene ^ ^ e \ srt 6 . their

    persuasion that the opposite ropinions are unscriptural and false . But may they not have expressed their persuasion in terms harsh , , rude , or in some way unbecoming ^ To this question I do not pretend that I can re turn a full reply : but , I hare two ^ or three

    reasons for thinking that the most exemplary moderation and r mildness have been observed by the objects of M . C / s vituperation ; or , at least , that , ifaijy tmnpgresfmn of Christian meekness has * been eoramittekJ , it-has been either t > y some ) person of no

    importance , or it has been textremeiy minute and inconsiderable . 1 . * My f personal knowledge of M . Malan , M . Cluers , tmd the late M . Goiithaer , is to / ine ^ o slight ground of presuinption that ^ not one v of them

    would , have been iguilty ofymy language or sjyleof proceeding unworthy of the cha . i ? ac ^ r ; of , a scholar , , ? a , gen ^ f tle « iany ^ or a Christian . ? 2 , Had tiny ^ ichindecoruni 01 ' iial pnadeij ^ e -been ^ faiily ehiutgeahlc upon < &W ~ ofifae ip&r&ons-who ihave ^ bcen

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    mstruioe ^ tal in pcoducang" ii 9 i * t I believe to have been a rev ival of ficmptural reli ^ on , I think itiTOai ^ y jeectain that some judicial or « xtra-j udicial proceedings would have jbegm > inafituted , aiid the facts put upon record .

    Of the coinmenoement and progress of the recession from the Established Ghardli , the ( Jo ^ ernmeB ^; of Geneva has been a most / vigilant and jealous observer . It exemaed Sts pow ® r ? tff nummary'tKspulaion 4 rom the Cauton ^ upon Mr . HaWaoe and } M . M ^ janeJ ,

    rfchey being foreigners , witkout-aity allegation of the slightest misbehaviour ^ but solely because of fchekio-^ strumentaiity in reviving attention to serious piety . Had the smallest fair

    pretext existed for « ehai ^ img : fhe obnoxious party with unbecoming language or behaviour , I -have no daubt that the * inost would haveibeenrmade of it to their disadvantage . But I am well persuaded that nothing of ^ the kind lias occurred .

    3 . On December 21 , 1819 , M . ? Malan presented a petition to the ( Council of State , soliciting , " not an unheardof ? favour , hut a long-established right , - ^ a church in the city : —as granted to the German Lutheran , the Germmi

    -Reformed , and the Anghcan ^—conimunities . This document as too doDg for insertion , or it would ( in my humble opinion ) convey to every candid mind a strong impression of the frank -integrity and unimpeachably < decorous f conduct of ithe memorialist . Tiie

    Gojancil did not dispute any of tae allegations of the petition , but cIM that which , in our legislature , is called passing to the order of the day . I extract the following passages . « f Anonymous pamphlets were

    first employed , v to represent « s to the people in the . most odious colours . Although the author tif these publications affected an air of liberality , he didi not scruple to descend to personal ridicule , to throw out insinuations against our ^ private characters , and , to

    condeanji our opinions „ without knowin ^ them . Articles issuingi from the i sanae ^ obscurity were inserted i in the most widclvi-circttlatedi journals : our names ; till then concealed , were openly

    identified \ trith those \ V . hom public indi ^ nation has rb ramle d wit h wStimy ; <> aaoid thus , ; in our own tmity 3 in ithte ; midst <© f Jbhose ^ very persons (® r \ whom we . ceafiic ^ not > to i imfdorei tine mercies

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    * n the late Tfaol ^ ieal CQWn&vtrt&tt mtsjBefretmA 405

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/21/