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the Reviewer has obviated his own doubt , by shewing that this Catechism may , by the help of a few clerical salvos and mental reservations , be rendered passable to both religions . Although ( says he , p # 95 , ) cc the Orthodox Christian will not find in this Catechism all the doctrines of
gracehe will find to his satisfaction some of the peculiar doctrines stated with great precision . " And that this is a just assertion is pretty evident from the conduct of our own Orthodox saints . The Eclectic Reviewers make no great outcry . The Reviewers in the Evangelical Magazine pass over the doctrinal paris of the Catechism in silence . Now as these
celebrated literati can follow the scent of heresy through its most artful windings and doublings , with all the sagacity , perseverance and certainty of a true bred blood-hound , their silence affords a solid proof that at least the theological part of this Catechism meets with their approbation . 'Tis true , some heretical wrongheads are apt to suspect that these
Reviewers , though ostensibly a different corps , are in reality the same , and united in the same firm ; - but supposing this to be the case , it does not overthrow my argument or proof , but only reduces it into rather a less compass . If this Catechism contains a few doubtful points ^ . lays down , certain credenda which the orthodox do not include or
admit among their glorious peculiarities ; so do other articles , ccafessions and harmonies in Protestant Churches ; and such rubs must be got over , or quibbled away as the case requires * or the scruples of the subscriber render needful . Manuals
and Expositions for this purpose may be purchased dog chea p at the book stalls , by which the scrupulous or the doubting may easily learn how to surmount every difficulty and to lull his conscience to sweet repose . The French Protestants must , therefore , avail themselves of these aids , lik ^ their brethren in other countries . At present however , ! they
have no great need to employ their time in such studies , as they are not required to subscribe their assent and consent to the truth of this Catechism , but merely to teach their youth to repeat it ; and we know that priests and nurses do not always consider themselves as obliged to believe that all the stories they teach to children are true .
I hope your Reviewer is now convinced that king Buonaparte ^ whilst he remains so , lias the same right to make a religious creed for his subjects , as his royal brethren in other places have for their s ; and also to punish Dissenters by star-chambers spiritual courts , inquisitions , or anv other rational means
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French National Catechism . 301
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/13/
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