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a number of religious ceremoinies— -the abolition of all control versial sermons [ these sermons , in some parts of Germany , were made the vehicles of virulent atid even personal 'aEfu& » mostly on the orthodox side of the question]—the abolition of public processions and pilgrimages—reduction of a number of Sai / its * -days— -abolition of the Xent fast , or a general per ^
mission to eat flesh—removal of a number of obstacles in the way of marriage— -total extinction of celibacy—^ and the ilitre ** ductipn of legal divtorces among Protestants v Who , Mr . Editor , could easily believe that the present Pope Kas appended his own signature to the death-warrant of the last visible remains of the Popish superstition f But so it is ; and this fatal instrument is dated at Rome , and sealed with the
Fisher ' s Ring , May 17 , 1806 . What is still more strange , though it is calculated to destroy all that is commonly understood by the Catholic religion , the same instrument expresses the duty of his Holiness in the present case , " to prevent au ~ cune atieinte ( any injury ) to the Catholic church , and to
exelude every thing that might qe capable of violating its integrity : and that its rights might be restored ^ and its security every where established /* I believe ,. Sir * of all deaths that have ever been imagined by the most zealous among the Protestants , no one ever imagined th $
Pope would die by an act of suicide ! The man , and the abuses of the Catholic religion , so far as it has been connected with the State ,. must perish j but the profession of the Catholic ? religion may remain . It is not this , but the scarlet beast that has hitherto carried or supported it , among all the- --kingdoms in Christendom , which is the object of predicted vengeance .
Had it not been for the use of racks and tortures , inflicted upon others , Rome , her casuists , shoolmen , &c . might have racked their own brains with impunity . Had no other thunder been used by Rome than the thunder of the Vatican , her humiliation and ruin as a temporal state would not have followed . Had Rome , and the allied kings in her interest , never called down any fire from the heaven of power and authority , but that
of zeal ; had < she sent no light into the world but that of the gospel , instead of towns and cities wrapped inflames ; in fine , had she used spiritual only instead of carnal weapons , another nvi ^ ht not hav e ta ken the ( temporal ) *« ¦ dominion to consume ancF to destroy it unta the end ; nor would the kingdom and
dominion , 'and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven be given to the people of [ or in the interest of ] the saints of the Most High /'—Dan . vii . 13 , 14 / But now he that run- * neth may read . However , as the abuse of the Papal power could never havp
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47 S Ecclesiastical Reforms in Germany .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 478, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/30/
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