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INCREASE OF TOLERATION UPON THE CONTINENT . — -THf ; POPE MOT ANTICHRIST . i To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . SrR ,
In obedience to your request in your acknowledgments to correspondents , in the first number for January 1806 , respect * ing foreign literary and religious intelligence , I am happy in ^ vailing myself of the opportunity to communicate some fresh events ,- of which your readers , as genuine friends to knowledge , and true philanthropists , will be glad to hear ,
" On the 11 th of March last , M , de Wolf , the Catholic Bishop , Suffragan , and Dean of the Cathedral of . Ratisbon , laid the first stone of a Protestant Hospital ip that city . This circumstance has produced great encomiums upon this prelate ,
and exhibited a laudable idea of the tolerance of his principles ; ' * cc A Papal Bull is shortly expected in Italy , to permit the eating of meat on Wednesdays and Fridays ; and another still more important , relative to auricular confession , is the topic of / discourse * . " ,
Your approbation , and that of some of your learned and ju * . dicious correspondents , one of whom has noticed my first letter , has encouraged me to add a few observations to the above i ntelligence . Your correspondent who signs himself , € C A Friend to Civil and Religious -Liberty , " in your last number has traced some
resemblance between the present head of the French Govern--ment , and Oliver Cromwell , in their religious toleration . It is the criterion of an excellent disposition to admit of merit and great qualities even in an enemy : and as there have been very few changes in nations and governments effected without vio-Jence , it is impossible that every man who may be the mean ^ of doing good , should be so good himself as to afford general satisfaction . The intelligent and rational Christian will , therefore , with the philosopher , measure the means by the ends they effect . Your correspondent , besides the resemblance be-r tween the tolerating principles of the English Protector and
Napoleon ^ might have discovered that the forfner laid the fouife dation of the English greatness by sea , as the latter seems to be engaged in establishing the undisputed pre-eminence of the French , by land . I would not wish to carry disquisitions . of this kind too far ; but I am persuaded that no greater good can possibly be done for society at this present period ^ than to e ^ - * For other articles of 3 . similar kind , $ ce Intelligence , ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/26/
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