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CONDUCTED BY A LITERARY AND THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION; AND PUBLISHED BY
THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE REFORMED
DUTCH CHURCH, AT THEIR OFFICE, CORNER OF NASSAU, AND ANN STREETS.

RUTGERS PRESS, NEW-YORK.

Printed by William A. Mercein, No. 1 Burling Slip.

1829.

THE UNIVERSITY
OF TEXAS

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Little field

Bind 3 JA. 38

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THE MAGAZINE

OF

THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH.

VOL. IV.]

APRIL, 1829.

Biographical Sketches.

ZUINGLIUS, THE SWISS REFORMER.

[Abridged from the account in Blackwood's
Edinburgh Magazine.]

[NO. 1.

Istitions of Popery, that compel men to shut up their Bibles, bow down to a stock or a stone, and be the slave of a priest, adverse as all such restraints are to the vaunted love of universal freedom in the mouths of those traitors-become instantly entitled to their protection, when, through them, they can shake the Protestant Church. We live in an age which pre-emi-To show by what struggles that Church nently affects the title of philosophic, was erected, we shall give, from inquiring, enlightened, and which time to time, brief narratives of some proceeds to establish its claims by six- of the founders of the Reformation. penny treatises on science, -unwor-The Apostles were commanded to go thy of even the sixpence; by insolent- forth, not in the strength of human ly scorning and traducing every powers, not relying upon genius, eloprinciple and institution valuable to quence, or authority, but in the our country; and by putting out the strength of the gospel; and they conlights of moral experience with the quered, where the noblest powers of one hand, and the lights of religion man would have been as the dust of with the other. Who are the heroes of the balance.

popularity among us now, and what The command was given for all are their expedients for fame? The times, as well as for the apostolick men [and the women] who run from age. While it declared, that the great the public assembly to the hovel, look-work of God was not to owe its triumph ing only for the means of public con- to any vanity of man, it declarvulsion in both; turning with the ed, that simplicity, sincerity, and mospeech of party-contumely and ral courage,-qualities that may be convicted baseness on their lips, to found in every rank of men, however Minflame the paltry irritations of the divested of the more showy gifts poor against their betters, into furious of nature or of fortune, are enough vindictiveness, against the whole to achieve the hallowed and immorconstitution of civil society. tal successes of the gospel.

But the great object of their at- No Christian can be suffered to tacks, is Christianity: and this they shelter his indolence under the prenattack through its most perfect for text, that he has not the brilliant faculamong ourselves. The hideous supeties which influence the world. TxU

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