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which other regular governments have employed ^ or yet do employ , for such just and necessary purposes . I trust too , he is equally convinced how easily the French Protestants may g ^ et over any of their objections to this Catechism , by means of those various salutary anodynes and soporifics which have performed such wonderful cures in dther parts of the
world . Your Reviewer next proceeds with his criticisms upon the political part of the above-named Catechism ; " the main object of which , he tells us , is to enlist the consciences of
the French on the side of the new Imperial family / ' To prove this point , he transcribes a lesson from it , grounded upon the , 5 th ( not 1 th ) commandment , inculcating " the duties of Christians in regard to the princes who govern them , and particularly towards Napoleon the 1 st . " Now this lesson makes a very curious discovery ! It proves beyond a doubt ,
that Napoleon the 1 st , u the Legate , and the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris / ' are so eager to adopt the sentiments of rulers and priests in regular governments , that they have actually condescended to become guilty of plagiarism . Incredible as it may appear , the substance of this lesson
is purloined from the writings of our own clergy , and more especially from their 30 th of January Sermons , some of which were preached by Archbishops and Bishops before former parliaments , andhave received their thanks and imprima tur . The following extracts from some of these celebrated Sermons , &c . &c . will enable , your readers to judge for themselves how closely the copy imitates the original .
u resolved , by the grace of God , to honour and obey the king wnom God , is pleased to set over me . He that honours not the king that represents Gqjl , cannot be said to fear God who is represented by him . So that the wrath of ( iod shall as certainly fall upon those that rise up against the king , as upon those that fight against God ; and no wonder that the punishment should be the same when the fault is the same . — - Upon this ground it is that I believe the wickedness of a prince *
cannot be a sufficient pica for the disobedience of his subjects ; for it is not the holiness , but the authority of God that he represents ^ which the most wicAcd ' aS well as the most holy person may be endowed With . Instfmiich that did I live among the Tvrksj I should look upoti h as irry duty to obey the Grand Seignior in sill his lawful edicts , afc well as the most Christian aftd pious king iii the world . Fot suppose a king be never so Wicked , and never so negJTJge'frt iri his duty of protecting ihe , i § doth not follow that I must neglect mine of obeying him . "Bp . Beveridge ' s Private Thoughts . . /
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3 < 53 Fventih Nai ion at Catechism .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/14/
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