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      Sir , July 2 , 1824 . r 11 HE following is aa extract from JL the Evangelical Magazine for the present month . It occurs in the Review department of the work , p . 309 . — " Infidelity , in all its gradations , from Socinianism to Atheism

      itself , originates in the same corrupt source , the pride , the carnality , and the enmity of the desperately wicked heart . ' The falsehood and malignity implied or expressed in this sentence need no comment : let it be

      remembered , hovvever , that the writer is one of a class of religionists who pretend to superior holiness and who really believe that they are the favourites , aud exclusive favourites , of the pure , aud merciful Jesus ! R . B >

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      P . § . It is desirable to put these ebullitions of ignorance and malice upon record , because when we charge upon - Calvinism a tendency to bigotry we are accused of misrepresenting the system and temper of our opponents .

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      Bigotry of the Evangelical Magazine . 409

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      Correspondence between the late Rev T . Howe and the late Lord Erskine > on the subject of a Petition for Religious Liberty . [ This correspondence was sent to us by Mr . Howe , about the time

      when the introductory letter is dated * We suppose , for we cannot speak from memory , we thought it not quite right to publish letters of Lord Erskine ^ s during his life , without his consent . Now , however , that death

      has removed both the writers from the vyorld , we feel no scruple in giving publicity to a correspondence which is honourable to their names . Ed . ] Bridport , Sir , March 19 , 1818 .

      ABOUT the latter end of the year 1811 , I received from my much esteemed friend , Mr . Jervis , of Leeds , a copjr of Mr . WyvilPs Petition to the House of Lords , for the Repeal of all Penal Statutes on account of

      Religion , * as consistent with sound policy , as it is agreeable to the liberal spirit of Christianity . I immediately laid it before the principal people of bur society , who cordially approving the sentiments it contained , not only signed it themselves , but also assisted me in getting the signatures of Christians of other

      denominations in this town . Nearly a hundred persons affixed their names to this petition , and , agreeably to the wish expressed by some of the respectable subscribers , I sent it to Lord Erskine , with a request that he would have

      the goodness to present it to the Hduse of Lords . This gave rise to » the following correspondence between us , which if you think it calculated to promote in the least degree the sacred cause of civil and religious liberty , ( one of the laudable objects of

      your useful publication , ) is very miiea at your service for insertion in tile Repository . In transcribing my dwh letters , I have thought it expedient to * Similar to the petition presented to the House of Commons , inserted iu the Monthly Repository , Vol . VII , p , 447 ,

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      disordered ia his intellects , was , by the sentence of the magistracy of Geneva , first strangled and then his dead body burned , for apostatizing- to Judaism . It is , . however , some consolation to find that a part of the clergy reasoned powerfully against that deplorable and infamous deed .

      In my former letter , I mentioned 1725 as the date of the abolition of subscription to the Calvinistic articles by the Genevese clergy . I intended to have examined the matter , but it escaped me ; and I now find that . I have no document which enables me

      certainly to verify the date . Dr . Chandler , in his Case of Subscription Reviewed , p . 176 , says that , in 1706 , at Geneva " all subscriptions to human formularies were abolished by public authority , and the qualifications thenceforward required of all who offered themselves to the

      ministry , were only these : ( I . ) To swear solemnly that they will teach nothing , neither in the Church nor the Academy , but what they think is agreeable tp the word of God . ( 2 . ) To promise that they will teach nothing in the same that \ $ contrary Jo the Consensus Helveticus , or the Confession of the

      Gailican Churcht , ( pour le jbieii de la pa \ " M w ) for the sake of peace , . Chenevifere ( Mon . Repds . p . 7 of this volume ) lays down 1705 as the epoch ; but adds that it was " kept secret during twenty years , at the request of the government , " —180 & , in p . 134 , is a mere erratum .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/25/