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this at ^ Timent , but it ought not to be omitted Id any one of their petitions . It should ' - ; c strongly urged in the plainest t ' erms ik V .- > the Catholics of such a "p ^ AC ^ , rnenrbersof a religious community the j ost numerous of any in the United fc . ni £ clom , liumbly entreat , that we mayre in civil rights * upon a par -with the Church of England , which , however 7 ; iirrous in former times , is now
divide -i into two classes , at variance on the ' ' nterpreration of its articles , and \ £ hose population is too small to give it any pretensions o exclude so great a majority of sub jects from rights ,- which iMy be e uaT y Veil exerci ed by men of all * eli ^ ion t ; /'
Various ar < the conjectures on the danger to the Church cf England : the Bishop of Chi cluster wt --Vie and Professor Marsh expect it from different ' quarters 3 but \ VehaVe : io ' t heard thai they irave a ppreh elided any from the Cermet , which now so beautifully adorns ia an evening the northern he . ^ isphere . This ¦ was in former times a presage or * sad
events and even in this coiin ry superstition is not entirely got rid of up 6 n the appearance of these ex traorclihary bodies . "We will ; not pay so a * t a coiftplAjfoeikt to any of the readefS" of the l ^ epositoi-y , as to suppose them cdty'tfble of libourirfg uiider such misapprehensions . These Bodies perform their destined courses , according to the ^ law of the Great Crea tor , and are not cause of alarm , but
call our attention to ] the wonders of the heavenly regions . Whenever tney ^ P " peati-, it should * pe OUr care to impress oh the minds of those of less information , how improper it is in Christians to be led aSvayby the vain fears of Heathens oh such , subjects : How idle it is to stand in dread of any of the heavenly bodies ,
or to give heed to the foolish predictions from their position , with which irnpbsttff ^ . deludes the ignorant , From this vjfe . may be led to warn them . against the widked credulity of some in
fortunet ^ l jers aifld such people , against whom tnt antient laws of the Jews were directed : WuK greiat severity ; tilt indeed , if yftii fi&bh tritm properly , tnat there is only Ovd ' &&d who directs the affairs of thiji , utfiv ^^ rse , that he is the object of oiir \ 6 yt 7 and the onl y persons we have t 6 dr ^ ad are those Wicked men , ^ ho would sever tis fr ^ ni his love , tH ^ re is no take o ( thefr being hiirt by Vulgar sUpefst ^ on . T&C < HirlciiiJLtPdrt& haV giVen a ptobf
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of the political nature of its institution : it has requested to have a se l ' with armorial bearings , which has been gr . nted by the Emperor ; and all acts emanating from this assembly are to be stamped with it . The field of the arms is sprinkled with bees ; the first quarter is a cross on the ' second and third an ea ° -le displayed ; on the fourth an iron crown . The escutcheon is surmounted and sup . ported by episcopal attributes , and the legend is Concilium ndtionale Parisiis , 1811 . How far the EmperoY has been
prudent in this step time , will piove ; but such a political assembly may prove ttoublesome to some of his succ ^ sstfrs . A more mdictous conduct was adopted in England , when the meetings of the Convocation weie assembled purely- for form , and it was not permitted to discharge any business supposed to belong to it . Several of the bishops of the
council have gone from the council to Italy , giving thus foundation for a report that they aTe to consult the supposed Holy Father on its decrees ; and it is not improbable that bis consent may . be gained to them . If he can by any means rdtam the primacy , the pretended holy see may still excite much trouble and confusion , in the Christian
world . Thus in France alterations are taking place in the Established Church without creating any alarm ; and in Austria a Sirnilai proceeding , but with worse example . They are not attacking ; there the doctrines ot the Established Church ,
nor educating young people in the Bible , by which they may con ) pare together the opinions of the ptilpit with the truths of scripture . But they are doing a thing which two hundred years ago would have shaken the power of the crown ; they are selling church property to an immense amount . We nust that this
is done without injury to the present incumbent *; and , as this measure must destroy very much in future the influence of the clergy , which has for so many hundred years been exerted to the injury of the temporal and spiritual interests of mankind , we cannot but think tjiat at no distant day the inhabitants o Austria will escape from their piesent spiritual thraldom . At any rate , it > s again seen that great alterations , my $ k £ place in an Established Church without injuring the state ; and hercafter it niay betoine a doubt , whethci an" Established Church is atall nec ^ s&Liy .
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574 State of Public Affairs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 574, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/62/
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