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number , [ pp . 147--151 . ] the Romaa Catholic ? must have been anxious tocourt popularity by publishing all authorities in their fkvour . For this purpose tv ere annexed ? to the Fifty Reasons " of Anthony Ulric , as described oh the back of the title-page , " Three
Valuable Papers . First . The decision of the Protestant University of Helmstadt , in favour of the Roman Catholic Religion . Second . Copies of two Papers ; written by the late King Charles II . Third . A Copy of a Paper written by the late Dufchess of York . "
The first paper appears to be A transcript of a newspaper , called the " Post Boy—dated , London , July 1 , 1708 . " It thus commences : *• There being two Mails due from Holland , and the foreign news tliat came in with the last , being-, by this time , exhausted : we shall take this
opportunity to communicate to the public , the . following remarkable piece , which has given just offence to most of the Protestants abroad . " Decision of the Faculty of Divinity of Helmstadt , ( a famous Lutheran University in the Duchy of Brunswick ) of the question propounded on occasion of the Princess of
Wolffembuttel ' s marriage with Charles III . King of Spain . The said questioft was propounded in these terms : " Whether a Protestant Princess , destined to marry a Roman Catholic Prince , may , with a safe conscience embrace the Catholic religion .
This Princess , according to Rimius , wasElizabethChristina , a grand * daughter of Anthony Ulric . She was married in 1708 to King Charles , afterwards Emperor . These complaisant divines reckon
up the points of orthodoxy common to Roman Catholics and Protestants , € C the belief of God the Father , our Creator , of God the Son , the Messiah , " &c . and at length conclude , that € * the most serene Princess of
WoWembuttel may , in consideration of her marriage , embrace the Catholic religion 3 especially considering , 1 st . That she did not offer herself , nor has negotiated to be chosen ; and that ' tis unquestionable , that Divine Providence has led her into that
Inatch . 2 dly . That the said alliance will be most advantageous not only to the Dutchy of Brunswick but also to the whole Protestant Church , and
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Book-Worm . No . XX Sfcl
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England , Protestants are Infidels to the Pop ** aiM * Christians are called # by the followers of Mahomet , &c . &c » Mr . F- says » * the whole of the matter , and which has occasioned all
this lamentable wailing is , [ that ] in tbe course of half a century some two or three miserable individuals , whose ignorance or wilful misrepresentation , whose abuse and ribaldry , when attacking Christianity , " Sec . Now , Sir , if a man is imprisoned unjustly in
Newgate for two years , and pays a fine of 100 / ., I think it is great cause of lamentation , though it may happen but seldom , and that man who does not deeply lament it can , I think , know but little of the true spirit of Christianity : as to their being miserable men that is a stronger reason for
taking their cases up . 1 should be glad to know whether a certaia gentleman did not think it cause of wailing when he was in prison for what , I suppose , some persons would call his " ignorance or wilful misrepresentation , ' his " abuse and ribaldry" of Mr . Pitt ' s administration .
I think , Sir , that Mr Ps . letter will give countenance to what has often been said by unbelievers * that all Christian sects will persecute when they are established and have the power to do it . By the manner in which a text of scripture is quoted at
tbe end of his letter , with the word sure in italics , he" in my opinion lays a direct claim to infallibility ; there are very many persons who think themselves sure of the doctrine of the Trinity , others of Transubstantiation , so that those who cannot , agreeably
to my motto , feel persuaded that they maybe wrong , nor admit that their opponents may be right , however widely different their sentiments may be , can never be free from the charge of bigotry and intolerance , lam , Sir , Your ' s respectfully , CANDIDUS .
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Book Worm . No . XX . Sir , March l 6 > 1815 . N 1 741 , the date of the small volume I which formed the subject of my last
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/21/
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