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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR, The Christian's Survey of the Political World.
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HFHE pretended holy father has had a solemn meeling of his cardinals , in which he addressed them in the followingmanner : — yii How can we restrain the sentiments of joy and gratitude , with which we were penetrated on learn - £ tht manner , in which our envoy was received in the capital ( London ) of so g'leat a kingdom ? He there renewed what had not been seen for two
centuries , the example of a Cardinal Leg-ate , appearing puMicly in London with the perini-v / ion of the government , decorated with the distinctive marks of his dignity , in the same manner as he would ha > e appeared in the capital of the Christian world . Our Legate was immediately admitted , to an audience of his Royal Highness the Prince -Regent . He presented to him our brief , offered our felicitations and friendship as well to his Royal Highness as to the valiant English nation .
" The Legate was received by the Prince with marks of good-will and attachment towards onr person which could not be surpassed . And for that reason , avowing ourselves very much attached to the
Prince Regent , and all the classes comprising ( hat gener . ms nation , for whom we already cherished the greatest affection , we most willingly seize this opportunity of giving them a public testimony of our esteem and our most lively gratitude . "
This address has been read by the English without any imirks of astonishment , and the idea of a Cardinal Legate being received in all his formalities by the representative of the sovereign of this nation , does not awaken in the breast of the generality of the inhabitants of this country any of the feelings by winch their
ancestors were so strongly animated . It will not he so by the readers of this Survey 5 they will be penetrated with ilie same grief that oppressed the writer , when lie iirst read in the public papers the compliments paid to this country , by one who dares to assume to himseii the title of Christ ' s Vicar upon earth . " Touch not the accursed thing * , ' was the command in ancient limes , and it is dangerous to have communion
with Pabylon . It may be said , that this was only a political communication between one sovereign and another 5 but our ancestors were , not without reason , afraid of the consequences of such a connexion . A king" of Israel was delighted with the workman-
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ship of an altixr at Damascus , and transferred the abomination to the holy place of the Most High . The people were reconciled by degrees to this departure from the law of God , and it is not easy to foresee what may be the consequences of a connexion between Protestants and the pretended holv see . At any rate , we must
be the more attentive to the signs of the times , and preserve with the utmost diligence our families and friends from the danger of contagion . If in the unscrutable designs of Providence , the stupendous apostacy , permitted to take such deep root , should again sbootforth its branches , let us fervently pray to the Most High , that we and onr children and our children ' s
children may never sit under their deleterious shade . It may be , that new trials are destined for the faith of the elect . God grant that we and our children may not swerve from the truth as it is in Jesus ! Another curious document has appeared—the address and ^ remonstrance of the Roman Catholics of Ireland to his holiness
Pope Pius the Seventh , resolved upon at their aggregate meeting * , held in the city of Dublin , August 29 , 1815 , Sir Tliomas Esmonde , Bart , in the chair . The title is good . Address and Remonstrance ! If the Catholics of Ireland do not protest , they can remonstrate : if they are not Protestants , they are Remonstrants : and
this title may become in time as odious to the pretended holy father as the former . The language too of the Remonstrance will not please the court of Rome , for they say , u must most humbly but most fi nnly protestag-ainst the interference of your holiness , or any other foreign prelate , state or potentate , in the controul of our temporal conduct , or in the arrangement of our
political concerns . " Again , "As we , on the one hand , refuse to submit our religious concerns to the emitroul of our temporal chief , so , ou the other hand , we cannot admit any right on the part of the holy see to investigate our political princip les , or to direct our political conduct } it being our earnest desire and fixed determination , to conform at all times and under all
circumstances to the injunctions of that sacred ordinance which teaches us to distinguish between spiritual and temporal authority , rendering unto Caesar the things which belong unto Coesar , and unto Ood those thing's which belong to GodJ The point at issue is the interfe rence <*
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Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or, The Christian's Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christian ' s Survey of the Political World .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 662, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/62/
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