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patiently waiting for thy salvation , O Lord ; and , I trust , the time of deliverance is not far distant / He saw no one for many days before his death , excepting his own family , and even them but for a little while at a time . It was thought that he wished to be
afone , as finding it a hinderance to his devotions to say much to others $ but what he did say Was most pertinent , and shewed how much his thoughts were directed upwards . The evening before his death he was remarkably cheerful and even facetious :
but on his daughter rejoicing in his good spirits and cheerfulness , he answered , as if he would say , * Do not build upon this , it is but transient . ' And so it proved . His attendant said that she heard him praying at intervals till four o ' clock of the next
morning . Having been a little relieved from a pain in the chest , ( of the 1 el urn of which he complained , ) he ordered her to go ii ^ to the nex t room and take a nap , as he was about to do the same . She watched for near half an hour ; when , not hearing him cough as usual , she returned to his chamber , and found his eyes closed , his breath departed , and every appearance of his having gone off in his sleep without a struggle . What a singular answer to his prayers , that he might have a gentle , easy dismission 1 Often had he been heard to
say , * Oh , that it might please God to permit me quietly to slip away without any noise or bustle ! ' Thus , then , were liis wishes granted . He fell asleep in Jesus on the morning of the Lord ' s-day , December 13 , 1801 , in the 87 th year of his age . « Mark the perfect man , and behold the upright , for the end of that man is peace / "
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The Roman Catholic religion is declared to be . the religion of the state , whose ministers shall be paid from the national funds ; but the exercise of every other religion shall be equally protected , and its professors entitled to equal civil rights .
No other symbol of faith shall be recognized but the Apostles * Creed and the seven sacraments . Neither confession nor communion , nor attendance at mass shali be compulsory .
Saints' days shall be abolished , and the bishops and vicars shall be enjoined to ascertain that the services of the church be conducted with simplicity and devotion . Fasting shall not be imposed 3 it is an act of individual fervour and devotion . The church shall have no power to dissolve the matrimonial bond .
That power exists only in the Supreme Council of the nation . ^ No perpetual religious vows shall be allowed , nor any vows which impose celibacy . The clerical profession shall be no impediment to matrimony .
The clerical orders shall be archbishops , bishops , presbyters , deacons and subdeacons . Their duties are particularly defined in several following articles . If any complaints be made against an ecclesiastic , they must be made to the order which
ranks immediatel y above him : if redress be refused , the Supreme Council of the nation shall take cognizance ' of the same . No reference shall be made to the
Pop « on any subject of pure discipline ; the Episcopal authority being wholly competent to the government of . the diocese ; and no bull shall be promulgated without the consent of the National Council .
The ecclesiastical division of the country shall be 1 he same as the civil ; the capital of every province being the centre of the ecclesiastical body . The Pope shall have no veto over the appointment of the Episcopal body . On these and other articles the
author enlarges to prove their consistency with the early practice of the Christian Church . He will recognize no novelties which have a later date than the third century , and takes for granted that the spirit of Christianity is as f deadly to reli g ions as to civil free *
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Ecclesiastical Constitution for South America . , 710
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WORK has lately been pub-A lished at Paris , entitled ic Disc « rsos sobre una Constitucion tteligiosa considerada como Parte de la Civil National , " by M . Llorente , the author of the Critical History of the Inquisition , fctc , in which a series 2 * articles are proposed to the rising publics of South America , as the ™ undation of their religious constitu * ions . They are so liberal in their l
» Pnt , though the work of a Catholic , uiat we are only doing the author an tkl J «* tice by introducing some of *™ m to our readers *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 719, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/3/
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