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To Sir, The Cry Of €C No Popery," Has Re...
degraded mistaken power people _^ of the pope . That there are some honesf , who have united their voices with the knavish
politician and drunken zealot , can hardly be doubted . But there is another _class _^ who belong to neither of the former , and who while they are fearless of the decayed carcase of the papal power now residing at Rome , are not less alarmed at the of Popery , which having fled from the stately temple c Peter ' s seems to have talcen "up its abode in bur churches spirit of St . ,
_chapels andmeeting- I on the Continent _serving only that more harmless and inoffensive , if Church of England . Its priests pre of its inhabitants by a rigorous ir those contentions , so disgraceful to frequently' this papal _spirit of _< heard church neara in our country , to _oe neara any more church of France . Its policy too has more of Christianity , or at least of its semblance * than ¦ houses . shall therefore leave the papal power 3 to the disposal of the Emperor of _France obunder hi 3 direction and guidance if is become inoffensive _, if not more liberal , Its priests prey rio longer on the than the industry ofthes imposition *} 5 nor Church , ; heard too has which any are to be policy of its country * semblance are : SO in the the
Church of England , for while the latter is desirous of continuing her penal statutes in their full rigour , the other has repealed them all . Under the auspices of the one , Dissenters and Schismatics of every description are considered worthy of every place of honour or profit , to which virtuous merit can and ought to aspire ; while under the rnild _^ pUre polity and inlatter is _^ desirous of
fluence of the church of England and her pnests 5 none of the sectaries are thought trust-worth y _^ but in these critical times _^ _^ re in formed they are not to be trusted even with the defence of their country : allow me therefore to cry cc No Popery /' And when I turn over the pages of those who have stepped forward and distinguished themselves as modern champions of the church—when I read in the works of an Overton or a
Daubeny , that the gospel can only be efficaciously preached within its pale , when ! hear such a church and such churchmen railing at the Catholics _^ it excites in me a smile of pity and contempt ; .... and I must be allowed to lift up ray voice and cry " No Popery /'
Would to God I could stop here ; but I find amongst dissenters the departed spirit of Rome , hovering around their assemblies and presiding in their churches . Those churches a _^ e _peculiarly papal who make uniformity of opinion the basis of Church communion- —whose ministers will not administer the
ordinance to any of those who doubt their hol y mysteries , and insist upon their belief of the doctrine of the trinity to be as necessary to the Christian ' s well being , as the papist does th _^ t of the more holv _* suy to constitute mystery of transubstantiatioix being _necesa good Cauaolic _, To _those ministers who
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 636, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/16/
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