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A&T II . —A Catechism for the Use of all the ( Churches in the Stench Empire : tb which tire prefixed , ( lie Pope ' svBuH and the Archbishop ' s Mandamus . Translated Jrorri the Original ) with an Introduction and Notts . By JDavii > Bogue . 12 mo . pp . 187 * Williams and Smith * 1807 ,
> i The Emperor Napoleon is , it appears 5 a good Catholic . . "A clergyman of a neutral nation , who left Paris a few weeks since , writes thtis to a correFpond'ent in Eng'land ;—* The Emperor ' s chapel at St . Cloud is remarkably plain and decent . If I recpllect right , except a small silver crucifix on the altar , there is not an imag ; e
a cross , or a painting * in it . Buonaparte , however destitute of real religion he may be thought to be , regularly attends at his private chapel in the Thuilleries and St . Cloud , on a Sunday morning , With his famil y . * "~—JiitroJuftion .
With the zoal of a * ' most relir gK > vis ,, kii > g , '' lie ) ias ordered this catechism to be drawn , up for the we of all his orthodox subjects , tlrra securing by a decree their
eterrial , as () it ? does by his arms tfwjir .. temporal , ' glory ; another Cyrus or a Constant ! ne . And cto&sh . fc realt y think he can revoke the empire of superstition , and subdue men ' s minds as easily as be can enslave their bodies ? And
how is -this National Catechism recpndikable with the equality of the * - <; two religions / ' Protestapt 5 uad : Catholic ? We should almost suspect that the Emperor is tired of the system of toleration , and thalythrs is the ( irst sUp towards coercion and persecution . At least he may wish to have ** two iteWli ^ bow / 3 that h <* may nyif tfi ^ her r as pccasion i > iay suit , tijf . Kmtesta-uts should becow > er re-. frJlci 6 ry'i «' -hi i ri 2 f f is ftn instnanvent of irt ) if ^^ t iri g , o \ -, XVliiCh in "Jioiftitfal reJigion is the giune thing , of quelling them . Let them behave them-
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selves , and not become " madmfcn and i ' ools ; ) ( the epithets bestowecj in the catechism on such as pry curiously into church mysteries ) or ; M , Portalis , the theological physician of thq Frc ^ nch people , may think proper to put upon tliem this straif-jacket * in orrfer to sc cu re the great object of . all eeclesiastical enipii : ics ,, u MI ? oj ^ t MITY OF FAITH . This Gallic Catechism is as orthodox , but excepting a very few points , noJt so absurd as Bishop Burgess ^ English one * The difference hetwe ^ i > the two is that the J ^ ega te and Ca rdinal Archbishop of Paris we content with a-serting absuniitie % while
our Prelate labours to make hi $ absurdities sound reasoji . Which , reader , think voq , is . ... " the ' , wiser plan and which class of ^ cljvines is the more politic ? ,
The main object of the catechism , is to enlist the consciences of the French on the side of the new Imperial Family . The following is one of the Lessons under tl } c seventh cojnnuipdrnent , on , u the duties pi childre n tow ^ vds parents / ' -
" Q . What arp the duties of Christians in regard to the prinqe * > vho govern them ; and , in particular , "wh ^ t are our duties towards Napoleon the First , our einperor ? A-, ^ hristians owe to the prix ^ jc ^ s wfro gpyern ^ beni , ^ nd . we ow ^ iq particular , to JSfapoleon the First , oiir eiwpemr , love , respect , obedience , fider lity , military service , and the tributes ordained for the preservation apd th ? defence of the empire and of His throne ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 94, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/38/
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