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THE NEW FRENCH CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND ITS CONFESSION OF FAITH.
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.... - ,. ' ; the . * UNITARIAN CHRONICLE , AND COMPANION TO THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY .
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PUBLISHED BY C . FOX ,. 67 , PATERNOSTER ROW .
The New French Catholic Church, And Its Confession Of Faith.
THE NEW FRENCH CATHOLIC CHURCH , AND ITS CONFESSION OF FAITH .
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No . IX . ] . October , 1832 . [ Price 6 d .
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Every marriage contracted according to . the forms of the Church , and not accordmgto the laws of the ' stat . e is and remains invalid as an act in opposition to social order . Sdly . We recognize in no religious society the power to create any other hindrances to marriage , except ¦ such as are established bv the civil
law . We regard the dispensations which Rome and the Roman bishops pretend to have the power of grant-¦ ing , for money , as a vile traffic , which dishonours their ministry . Consequently we bestow the nuptial blessing upon all who present themselves with a certificate confirming the civil marriage , even although one of the parties should belong to a different communion : it is thus we understand religious liberty . ¦
OF REASON . The following propositions will show , in a still more explicit manner , the doctrine of the French Catholic Church . 1 st , The reason of * each ought , to be the fundamental rule of his belief .
2 d \ y . Every man ought to follow his own convictions , even although they be in opposition to the general belief ; or if any one errs by pursuing this course , the error is not material .
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Sdly . To follow a system which a man is ( . persuaded Is absurd , even although it should be universal * is at least weakness .
OF ' -THE S £ lRITUAL POWER . The Pope , bishops , anoleven general councils , are fallible . The contrary proposition is an impiety , inasmuch as it attributes to men infallibility , which belongs exclusively to God . To attribute infallibility to the ecclesiastical power is to place all other authority in subjection to the power of the priests . Nevertheless , bishops , although fallible , are the heads of the Church ; and we maintain that , in
this same Church , it is necessary there should exist a council and a chief , ; or patriarch , and that , the bishops elected as in the primitive times , by the suffrages of the priests and people have , under the authority of the council , power to make rules of discipline in harmony with the state of civilization of the people under their spiritual jurisdiction . $
• TKere exist two powers distinct and independent of one another , vi ' 25 ., that kings and princes are , in their civil government , independent of all ecclesiastical authority ; and in like mariner that the ecclesiastical poivel in the regulation of spiritual concerns is wholly independent of the civil power . We reject every doctrine
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1832, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1821/page/1/
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