This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1830 Excerpt: ... touch it. We know that the accusation and reproaches are intended to strike us; and we stand up, without a blush or a trembling nerve, before the tribunal of denunciation where you have arraigned us, to hear our sentence with that fortitude, we would fain hope, which it becomes those to exercise who sincerely believe that they are in the right. If we now take the liberty to move an arrest of your judgment, we hope you will not refuse us a hearing. It is natural, you know, for men who are accused of crimes that are capital as to reputation if not as to life, to appeal, in case of condemnation, to a higher tribunal, if such appeal be lawful; and if not, to move an arrest of judgment, when the verdict or sentence does not agree with facts and evidence. Above all will they do this, when they know the accusations to be wholly ungrounded, and that they are truly innocent of the matters laid to their charge. I acknowledge, indeed, that a few solitary passages are found in your writings, in which you seem to manifest a little relenting on the subject of the severe and high wrought language with which you reproach me and my brethren. You sometimes say, that you aim not at Calvinists, but at Calvinism; that there are men among the party whom you oppose, whose hearts are better than their heads, and whose religious character you feel bound to respect; and other things of the like nature. But such declarations are "few and far between." They seem most evidently to be the result of mere constraint, when they do appear; constraint arising probably from a sense of decorum, and apparently too from an apprehension, that a strenuous advocate of liberality does not appear altogether to the best advantage, while he is uttering indiscriminate condemnation against more than one ...