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the other , they- acknowledged the authority of our Saviour , but stained his doctrinesiwfttiidolatrous worship , and ajttribated to alnafl that supremacy over the 5 ch 0 * : cb » which do living person has a rigkt to assume . For more than a thousand years these
two i&rrors have degraded the human min < J in the fairest portions of the . earth Intolerance was the , ruling maxim with both parties , and prejudice had so far taken- possession of mankind , that the vdice of reason saeiated to be banished
from the- world never more to return . The head of one party is now a prisoner , and his adherents know not how to gaift access to his j ^ r 3 pn ; : Kis . territoriei are torn from him ; the revenues of his state , that were , employed ii priestly luxuries arid superstitious processions , arfr devoted to civil purposes , and the lands of the chiirch soldand viinc cxiurea
are * Bromuw > are soux * ana promise fco ^ bccpme the mansions of industry . Still liis adherents have : not k > $% their confidence in him : still they cling to their ancient prejudices aad superstition . Spain has been the most Bigoted of his dq > etjdents , and they appear likely to rcnaain so . The Cortex have sworn
fealty to die Romish Church * atfd to exclude every other rcBgion from the country . The assistance they have derivedfrom the English does not seem to have enlarged their minds , and they are a melancholy proof of the difficulty to r « tore purity to a soul deeply tarnished wfeherrorV
Ob the bthe ^ suje , thg professors of Mahoirtetistn are " as str ^ paous in th * ir aanereuce ito the fclse prophet , The invasion of Turkey by the i ^ d&na , the sue ^ teoTfcnei * arms , and the dacgerjhrcatcmtig Constantinople it $ clf , has roused
JU the spfrifc of ancient decrees . Tfce Grand Siguior has issued his proclamatoon , calling every true believer to come for ^* r * in -tWbs ^ In ^ ry ^ o ^ uc in Europe , and that own ni » swkf 4 h Asia , the proclamation is vt 9 and the Imams are ordered to di * » tt on the necessity of * h ? qtf } . They » ave su 6 * fee \ ie 4 v k fihtkf ^ Hp sptiit of enthusiasm , and the sovereign has taten w field with a very numerous body ; D « Alt | iifidfr doiibt ita discipline , 19
SjH <» UHis ^ m -not nwjr umctablc *** prodsyu ^ tAoe of die ov # re % n shews ^ ^^ t ? of hid subjects , and i » uparr a ; ^ M ^ h ^ iM ¦ & * £ many Chrisftiati mo-*** m W ^ tKXtmom . Hch ^ ipn is si' . . . . . .. . .. . . ...... -. ¦¦ ' ; ¦ ¦ ; ; ;
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the handle of the politician | ^ nd the Koran and . the Gospel have been equally brought forth to sunxmon conabatants tm the field * v Still these preparations on the part of Turkey shew the alarm that ha ^ sprea 4 through the . empire . The followers c £ Mahomet fe $ l the tornieats of the adhc-. rents to the Pope- —a sad presage to thqo * both of their approaching fall * But the
power of both parties is still yery > gvea £ * : nor can we expect them to resign with- * out considerable struggles * The day « rf mutual toleration is far distant j the Ma * homctan will continue to reproach hi # antagonist with the name of infidel ^ Um papist will cast the reproach of heresy in the teeth of those who secede from his
community ; the believers in the one only true God , the God of Jesus Christ , will lament this perversion of mind , and stedfastly . keep their eyes on ' those prophecies which assure us tha ^ the triumphs of error are only for a season , and that the time will come when all
shall form one fold under one shepherd . How for the Grand Signior has prc ^ ceeded in his march we do not kn « w ; nor can we depend on the papers for the real state of the Russian armies . There
is every reason , however , to believe that if the latter have not made any great progress , thai the Vizir has not been able to make head against them . He is probably waiting for his mighty master and his uumerous Ibices to drive back the
Russians across the Danube t and if so great a forcg shoold be really accumu * lated a 3 to effect this purpose , it cannot be expected to retreat without a continuance , of the i > low 9 by which ercn Aas * tria a&y ba 30 tete < X Some great event is Ww ^ y sooKi to take place , and we might Sink it the jouwre probable , as the emperor of Austria is said now to be with his * oa 4 n-law , aii 4 they may 1 ^ to
oevising measures x * M * ji survxncage or . the apprnttckkg c ^ t 4 strpt ^ i NWNM choly it is to think , that so much hur man blood is to be shed , and thlsby tyro jp * " ^ ^* . ^^™' . " ^ tt P * *^^ yy ' "j *^^ T ^^ wnww ^^ ¦* *^ r . ts ^ r ^** sivevso ill-peopled , and so > fll-cukivited . All the expense of their present warfare ^ and all their industry « mpla | red fyf years , wouid n « brin ^ their re ^ peptlYr countries to n tcotii iparj of the degree ^ f
inaprovemetit ^ of which tiher ife sH # » ccpiibk - " ' ¦• ¦ ' ¦ -- ' - ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' - ¦ ' " ' ' f Btawi , « n « ged in tips great war , is now * ttffic £ * aay tflBf » l 0 y * d > mi wt caii-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 519, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/47/
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