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entitled to , on the score of orthodoxy , has scarcely 4 be merit of ^ originality . The learned political divine breathed in these words the sentiments of a Vederable Father :
Nobis cimositate nan opus est past Jesum Christum , nee inquisi * tionepost evangeliura : cum credimus , nihil desideramus ultra Credere . " That is , in plain English , " The true disciples of Christ have nothing more to do with curiosity or inquiry , but when they are once become believers , their sole business is to believe € > n . "
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No . 86 * An Hieroglyphic . Tbe Greeks made use of the same word to signify the soul , as they used for a butterfly ;
evidently because a butterfly is only a caterpillar that changes its form without dying , and bears therein a similitude to the soiil , which continues to exist in its new state
after the dissolution of the body . It was for this reason that the Greeks first represented the soul hietoglyphically under the form of a butterfly , and afterwards proceeded to give it the very name of that insect *
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No . 87 . Orthodoxy degrades Christianity . Averroes , the great free-thinker of his age , said that Judaism was the religion of children , Mahometanism that of hogs ; but he knew no sect so absurd and foolish
as that of the Christians who adored what they ate . Gibbon knew but of otie leHgjbft in which the victim that was sacri-# ced and the God to whom the
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sacrifice was offeree ^ were the same *
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No . 88 . A Generous Enemy . Albert the Second of Austria endeavoured in vain to subjugate the Swiss . That brave and iru .
teresting people resisted the monarch , and under his tyranny sprung up the far-famed Helvetic Confederacy . At the close of his reign , it is said that the very . name of a Swiss was terrible to him , and was never mentioned in his , presence . Yet an anecdote of his
generosity is recorded by th Swiss historians * Basle being almost overthrown by a tremendous earthquake , succeeded by a conflagration , one of his counsellors urged
him to take possession of the town , to which nature had opened him a passage— " God forbid , " in ^ dignantly exclaimed the Dufce ^ " that I should smite those wfoo
are visited by the hand of the Almi ghty V He even dispatched a body of his vassals to clear the ruins , and furnished the . unfortunate inhabitants with materials to rebuild the town *
This passage of history would have formed a good text for such wretched bigots as preached their approbation of the Birmingha n * riots !
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No . 89-Predestination . The Mahometans as well as Calvinists hold predestination , and are just as ingenious in
reconciling man ' s responsibility with it" AH ;** say they ^ ' * may be saved who will ; but ni > m ^ n is jsared whom God has not destined tm sabration ^ *
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4 S Meanings . —Nos . 86 , 87 , , 8 p .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/48/
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