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the moral . Plato differs from both ; he does not talk of Trinity and Unity but makes " the good , or the highest God , a being so perfectly exempt from multitude , that he is even beyond esgence , and not to be connumeratcd with any thing , or co-arranged with any second or third principles . " ( See Taylor ' s Introduction to Extracts from
plotinus . J m Thus we may see , that trinities nave been familiar to human minds , but that they are not absurdities , unless when it is attempted to reconcile them to eternal truth , ( and the modern Trinity differs from the old ones upon
this very ground , ) and that there is no analogy but in name ; that the very little distinction that is made in the moral arrangement is quite superfluous , for there is nothing incompatible in the process of creating , redeeming and sanctifying , these are not opposed
to one another , as creating , preserving and destroying ; and lastly , that the second and third persons have little to do with the greater part of being : the first creates all 5 the second judges all and redeems some ; the third sanctifies only that part which the second
redeems ; and Siva triumphantly exclaims , By me and more than half , perhaps , shall reign , As man ere long , and this new world shall know . Milton f B . iv . M . N .
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Remarks concerning the Present State of Religions Sects in Sweden . [ Translated from Chronique Religieuse , 28 Juin , 1819 . ] THE Catholic religion , brought into Sweden in the ninth century by St . Anscarius , was banished thence , as
is well known , in the sixteenth , by the Lutheran Reformation ; which was declared the religion of ihe state under the reign of Gustavus Vasa , the first of that name . This change was completed at the assembly of the Statesgeneral , held « t Upsal in 1593 , an
epoch memorable in Sweden . The Confession of Augsburg was there admitted and sanctioned by the authority of the slates and of the king . The inhabitants of Sweden all became Lutherans , and retained no veatige of Catholicism , except the ecclesiastical
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hierarchy . The ecclesiastical government is administered by an archbishop and eleven bishops . The king is tbe head of the church . Ihe parishes belonging to each bishopric are served by pasters and curates . Deans are
established by cantons . At the death of a bishop , the chapter proposes three candidates , and the king chooses a successor from amongst them . Livings are in the gift of the king , of the lords , or of the parishioners . In Sweden , as in other Protestant countries , the
primitive principles , or articles agreed on by the Confession of Augsburg , have been , in a great measure , lost sight of . The exorcisms formerly used before the administration of baptism , have been expunged from the Prayer-book , and the idea that children are born
in sin , is discarded . The new catechisms , and those printed since the Diets of 1809 and 1810 particularly , assert that men are born in sin and are children of wrath 3 that baptism is a necessary service , and purifies them from sin : but rm ttm nthpr TismrL iKat
original sin , according to the definition there given of it , is only an inclination to do evil , and a want of power to act well . Children dying without baptism are equally saved , and the necessity of baptism respects only adults who desire to become Christians .
This shewjs that baptism is merely the sign of admission into the divine covenant , according to the idea of the Calvinists . Respecting the Lord ' s Supper , nothing is stated in the catechisms and rituals which either plainly establishes
the real presence , or excludes the notion of its being figurative ; and it is considered pretty certain , that the figurative sense is most commonly received , both by the ministers and by the people whom they invite to the communion , to commemorate the
Saviour ' s death , and receive the assurance of tlieir reconciliation with Cod . The first communion especially , . is represented as a solenm act by which children confess tlieir faith , and confirm the promises made at their
baptism . The certainty of the pardon of sins , and of justifying grace is inculcated y ' and this is not only an absolute , but an infallible certainty : thus , those who reject the infallibility of the church , establish the infallibility of every individual . The minister , with
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Remarks concerning ike Present State of Religious Sects in Sweden * 541
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 541, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/17/
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