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    of the infinite righteousness of Christ , and of the infinite merits of his atonement . Fraught with these , he stands boldly before the infinite wrath of God , and challenges justification from his iiistice , regardless of his mercy .

    These opinions appear to me to have a direct tendency to supersede the moral laiv . But a man may not think it fair to be charged with opinions which he denies , though they may be inferred from his principles . Both Antinoinians and Calvinists may

    deny that they supersede -the moral law ; and it may be judicious to take them at their word . Yet they hold two other doctrines of the same tendency , which try our candour to the utmost . These are , the doctrine of unconditional election , and the

    appaling doctrine of unconditional reprobation . 1 call the last appaling , not because the mention of it can alarm any rational man , but on account of its atrocity , and because it is most distressing to think that zealous and learned Protestant Christians in the

    nineteenth century , who lay claim to the only true profession of the gospel , should fail so deplorably in charity and common sense as to entertain it , and should represent in so hideous a light the pure and benign religion of Jesus Christ . If they will adhere to their

    principles , they must maintain that the Deity is a malignant Being ; and , in fact , they do say , that God , to the praise of his glorious justice , indulges his infinite wrath against the great body of mankind , and that he would do the same toward all men without

    exception , if an infinite person , as much God as himself , had not plucked the elect from him as brands out of the fire . Mercy is altogether excluded from his attributes , according to their views of the gospel . Does it not

    plainly appear to be of very serious importance to them , that they analyze and review their doctrines ; and that they reflect , not merely that the Scriptures do not teach , but that no revelation from God can possibly teach , that lie doomed the greater part or any part of mankind to endless

    torments , without affording them a possibility of escape ? If they should prove that a doctrine so dishonourable to God is taug-ht in the Scriptures , who will believe the Scriptures ? What * head and what a heart must that

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    person have who can pertinaciously maintain this doctrine 2 To such a person I would say , without scruple , "Verily , the publicans ami the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you . " S .

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    Remarks on the Republicaiion of Dr . Smith ' s Letters respecting * Geneva . 331

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    Mr . JBakeweWs Remarks on the Re ~ publication of Dr . J . P > Smith ' * Letters respecting Geneva .

    Sir , June 4 , 1825 . WHEN I concluded my fourth letter to Dr . J . Pye Smith , I trusted that the controversy respecting the present state of morals in Geneva was at rest ; Dr . S . has , however , thought proper to republish his accusations of the Genevese in a pamphlet , to give a wider circulation to the charges which lie has brought against the pastors and people of that city . I have been prevented bv a loner

    illness from taking an earlier notice of this pamphlet . Before I examined it , I fully expected to find those passages were omitted , which contained the gross abuse of the Genevese people and of M . Cheneviere , but with the exception of the epithet " dumb / 9 all the abuse and calumny remain undiminisbed without apology , and without acknowledgment of their falsehood . *

    It will be in the recollection of your readers , that I repeatedly and earnestly pressed Dr . S . to bring proofs of the " gross immorality , profaneness , and openflagitiousness" with which he had charged the Genevese , and to name any large Calvinistic city where the morals were as pure as in Geneva . Your readers will also recollect that Dr . S . utterly failed to substantiate his charges , and avoided it by intimating that the morality of the

    Genevese was not Christian morality , and that there was no corresponding increase of true Christians among them . Dr . Smith will not insult the understanding of your readers by citing the alleged instances of the profane expressions of a few soldiers or women and children riotously assembled , even were they true . I say he will not insult them by citing these instances ^ 11 , _ . _ ,. ¦) i .. - <• . _

    ? The pamphlet Dr . S . has entitled , iC A Vindication of those Citizens of Gene vu and other Persons wlio have been instrumental in reviving Scriptural Religion in that City / ' &e .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/11/