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should mainly be attributed ; it is in reality the Protestant clergymen who have made , and still make , the converts to the Roman Catholic religion . * ' This strong primti facie evidence against the Protestant clergy will be found strengthened and confirmed by all
the details recorded in history , or transmitted by tradition . In former times they were the constant advocates and executors of the bloody penal laws , as now they are the chief opponents to all Catholic claims . Their ready subservience to all constituted authorities was
only tempered by their hatred to those whom they were appointed to protect , and from whom their fortunes were derived /'
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Art . VI . —A Charge > , delivered at the Triennial Visitation of the Province of Munster , in the Year . 1826 . By Richard , Archbishop of Cashel . 8 vo . pp . 24 . Milliken , Dublin ; Rivingtons , London .
We hail the appearance -of another plea for peace and charity from the Primate of Munster . Dr . Laurence is reproached for his moderation by the bigots of the two communions , the Romish and British ; but their censures proceed from the very causes that secure him the respect , esteem and confidence of enlightened and liberal men of all parties .
In addressing his Reverend Brethren the Archbishop congratulates them , that amidst the general stir on the subject of the Roman Catholic claims , since the last Visitation of the Province , there had been no meeting convened , no
association formed , no addresses , persuasive , flattering or intimidating , sanctioned by the clergy of Ireland , nor any petition from them to Parliament . They had suffered the storm of discord to pass unheeded by , that they might not disturb the dearest charities of life . ( Pp .
2 , 3 . ) Widely different had been the conduct of the English Clergy . Upon them the Archbishop passes no censure ; but he gives it as his opinion that the Clergy best consult their own dignity and usefulness by abstaining from political conflicts . ( Pp . 4 , 5 . ) Dr . Laurence is not enamoured with the fancy of uniformity of faith , nor alarmed at the existence of difference pf opinions . Parties , he says , there have always beep and will always be :
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the more unfettered we are in the tori mation of our opinions , the more will parties predominate ; and to parties we are indebted for our most valuable rights and constitutional privileges . ( Pp . 5 , 6 . ) He cautions his clergy , at the same tkne , against the excess of party-spiritthough he acknowledges the happy state of his own Province in this respect :
" It should , however , console us to reflect , that in this province , in which the proportional difference of numbers between Roman Catholics and Protestants is much greater , the irritability arising from a diversity of creeds is much less , than in those provinces in which the respective numbers are more equal . Here , with very rare exceptions ,
we live together in undisturbed harmony ; nor is the intercourse of life constantly embittered by religious animosities . To what is this state of things attributable , but to the moderation of both parties ? And while it is but common justice to ascribe herein a full share of merit to the clergy and laity of the Church of Rome , I cannot , on the
present occasion , withhold from you my expression of that commendation which is so much your due . Influenced by a conviction , that there exists between you and them a perfect concord in all the great doctrines of Christianity , * that those in which you differ from them
are merely the superstitious additions of after ages to the Creed of the primitive Church , you laudably avoid a perpetual altercation with them upon points where compromise would be dishonourable , and where unanimity is impossible . "Pp . 10—12 .
The Archbishop ( how unlike some prelates whom we could name !) deprecates all attempts at proselytism , in the peculiar state of Ireland . The clergy of the Church of Rome , he tells his brethren , have the same right , both in reason and in law , to tamper with the faith of Protestants , as they have to tamper with the faith of Roman Catholics . ( P . 13 . )
An union of the two churches , sometimes contemplated by moral theorists , the Primate of Munster considers
* " Contained in the three Creeds which are received by both Churches . Some writers of our own Church , among whom was the pious Bishop Taylor , have held , that those only which are contained in the Apostles' Creed are essential to sal-, vation . "
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S 2 & Ethical Notices .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/60/
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