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Louis XlV . to the Abbey of St . Ger . main des Prez at Paris , where he died in 1672 . I have in •* A new Description of Paris , 1687 > " a long latin epitaph on his tomb , " written by Father Delfau , one of the monks of the Abby . " After a large enumeration of Casimir ' s military exploits , we are told that
his religion was equal to his valour , for he fought not less for heaven than for earth * Nee scgnius calo militavit quam solo . The trophies of his holy warfare , besides monasteries and hospitals , erected at Warsaw , and Calvinistic churches demolished in
Lithuania , were the Socinians driven from his kingdom , that they might not have Casimir for their king who would not have Christ for their God . Sociniani regno pvlst , ne Casimirum haberent regent ^ qui Christum Deurn non haberent .
Mosheim , no partisan of Unitarians , says , that by this 4 * terrible edict , the Socinians that yet remained in Poland were
barbarously driven out of that country , some with the loss of their goods , others with the loss of their lives , as neither sickness nor any domestic consideration could suspend the execution of that rigorous
sentence . " ( v . 54 . 2 ded . ) Yet history commends , not only the fine literary taste , but the virtues , especially the humanity of this Christian persecutor . Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum .
P . 108 . Eighteen Hundred and Eleven . The concluding thought in this poem , Thy World , Columbus , shall be free , I have found in three writers prior to the age of this excellent and amiable authoress , whose sentiments will be approved by those alone , who indulge a spirit of Christian phi '
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unity of God no more than your trinity does . " P . 127 , 130 . I am tempied to add the Missionary ' s account of a short Conference on another subject . 4 C I returned home , and as I was near the city , a Merchant called after me , asking if he might propose to me some questions . I answered , yes sir , with all my heart . He asked me , what do you say to the
durations of the pains and torments of hell ? Are they to have an end , or are they endless and everlasting ? I replied , they are certainly endless and will endure
for ever . Is there no redemption thence , added he ? No , said I . But , sir , how can this rationally be , said he , seeing that we live in this world but for few years , and our sinful actions are as to
their duration transitory ; why then should ihe punishment be eternal ? The necessary proportion attending distributive justice is not observed here / ' The Missionary proposes the poor , but common solution , that a-sinner , who dies in his sins , continues to
sin on in hell for ever , which calls for punishments answerably eternal . ' * pp . Q 7—99 . Thus , with this horrible doctrine supposed in his commission , the zealous
Christian Missionary could believe that he was , all the while , teaching a Gospel 9 or glad tidings of great joy to all people . P . 82 . Unitarians of Poland - —their expulsion in l 66 l .. This took place under Casimir V . who ,
though a Jesuit and a cardinal , had been elected , in 1648 , to succeed his brother Ladislaus , whose widow he married , by a dispensation from the pope . Casimir quitted the throne in 1669 , nd retired on a pension fr # m
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/34/
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