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wt > rks of Przipcovlus , a Polish Knight' This small volume is probably a translation of so much of that work , as relates to that eminent reformef . If you think the list , prefixed to this book , of the works of Socinus , and which are 28 in number , would be in- »
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NO POPERY . For the Monthly Repository .
The late outcry of (< No Popery , " which originated in the agitation of tbe political question respecting the Catholic emancipation , has induced R . F . in the number for December last , Vol . 2 . p . 635 . to raise an alarm against the spirit of Popery , as having * ' taken up its
abode in our churches , chapels , and meeting-houses ; " and so much is his imagination haunted with the terrors of Popery that it presents to his view " the departed spirit ot Home * " among every denomination of Christians
excepting those who adopt Unitarian ( that is , his own ) sentiments . The design of this paper is to quiet , if possible ^ R . F . ' s groundless alarms , by removing the false inirror through which they are
presented to his view . In order to effect this desirable object , we need not take a survey of the in-§ ide of every churchy chapel , and meeting-house in the united kingdoms . It will be sufficient to confine our attention to the two
denominations of Christians which R . F . has selected &y name from the rest . He appears to be of-
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fended with the church of fiftgjH land because she enjoys exclusively all places and pensions under : government , but does he suppose that this circumstance , hoWevetf condemnable in itself , will induce his readers to close their eyes td obvious facts , and blindly swallow his invidious comparison between the church of England and the church of Rome ? Arc we to
thank the Romish ecclesiastics for the Religious liberty that t \ o \ t prevails in France ? W&s it under their auspices that ¦ . this amazing revolution happened ? Nb it is the fiend of infidelity that has ,
though with the worst inteptlons * rendered Christianity this service by stripping the whore of Babyloii of the power she once possessed over the nations . And CanRyR without blushing , prophane the cause of civil Jiberty by assot'iaU
ing it with the ty rant of the Con- * tinent ? under , whose mild and gentle sway the inhabitants of France are violently torn frp n > their native plains , from all that rs , dear to them , and for ' what ? * fo be trusted with the defence of their
' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ' '' . ¦ ¦ * ' ¦' . ' * R . F . gfaes no proof of the clearness of hfe jtncfjital sight rwhcH he reprcscntfi th B \ ^ urg h . of-Ropcxc as 4 fv ^ st (? d of herper « ccuting spirit , | pc ^ y g ^ tyflefffat other powef to exercise it , , v ^ t .
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teresting to any of your , rc&dcrs , it shall , at any future time , " b ^ copied for yim with pleasure * Wishing success to the Repository ^ I am , Sir , Yours , & ^ . S * P-1 •
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/23/
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