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Excerpt from Letter From Robert Haldane, Esq. To M. J. J. Cheneviere, Pastor and Professor of Divinity at Geneva: Occasioned by His "Summary of the Theological Controversies Which of Late Years Have Agitated the City of Geneva"
Geneva is no longer Christian! Is the cry which resounds in the city itself, and, reiterated by malevo lence, is heard in England, in Holland, in Germany, and France, and has even reached the astonished ears of the inhabitants of the New World. Why this out cry? Why this tumult? The reason is Obvious. Be cause you have denied the truth of God, and are de generate successors Of those who held it forth in its purity. Because the doctrine which you preach is not the Gospel of the grace of God, but, on the contrary, subversive of it because, in one word, you have be come Arians, and thus, in the judgment of all who venerate the principles of the Reformation, subjected yourselves to the charge of being false teachers'wko Izave privily brought in' damnable hereszes. From this important fact your statement is calculated to draw Off the attention of your readers, and to direct it to what, if the real cause be kept out of view, must appear an unaccountable and unprecedented combina tion against the pastors of Geneva. As, however, you have brought forward nothing to vindicate them from the charge Of a change of doctrine, all that you have said is to no purpose, nor will any thing that can be said avail to relieve them from their present degrada tion, till they have repented of their apostasy, and re turned to the profession of the doctrines which placed their predecessors in the pre-eminent situation they so justly occupied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
