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rage , when its princes , its uobles , its priests ^ and its' people in solemn prqcesstffctt rflove& to "horrid fires , were there ticlightedwith the shrieks of their fellow creatures in the flames , and most impio&Vly denorninated their vile sins an act of faith . In the same manner they uttered their silly nonsense from one to the other , which they retain to the present
day . — " Irr . maculate is the holy virgin , the mother of God" To reason witji such deluded people was in \ ain To endeavour to impress on their minds , the awful character of God was to no purpose . They were not struck with the absurdity and impiety of supposing , that He whom the heaven of heavens
cannot contain could lie in the womb of a "worran , or that the Creator could become a part of a creature . A similar species of insanity- has been noticed lately in a court of law in the north , and th e dial ogue betw een the judge and the accused person has been
circulated in our papers . The lesson it contains 'will not we hope be lost on the public . A poor man forsook his wife ancj children . and empioyefd the earnings of his industry chiefly in acts of charity . He was brought before the magistrates , and there the Recorder endeavoured to
convince him of his error : but he repelled with , the utmost calmness every argument by texts of scripture , and was not to be persuaded , that he was not acting under true Christian principles , in forsaking wife and children , as he called it , for the love of Christ . He was willing ;
he said to suffer persecution , as he knew it to be the lot of a true disciple , and the exhortation of the judge in discharging hiirij had no effect upon his mind , nor -would he promise to give a farthing to his family to relieve them in their utmost distress . What can be done to
such a perverted mind , to bring it back to its proper tone ? to restore it to the tender charities of life ? to humanise it ? A wrong association is strongly rivet ted , how is it to be broken ? By reading the scriptures under its present hias , it will only be fixed the deeper , and reasoning independent of them will have nb effect
upon , him . 1 hese questions deserve consideration , and we wish to see them taken tip in this Repository , and amply disduB&edi ^ An iunfonunate man , under a similar dekiskm * strung together a set of ubfitirdxfcfrd itnpiow ' propositions , which to * ar * g for srime time ; and multitudes aftw ^ v ^* d » i ^ fned in the chorus ,
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denouncing and inflicting punishment on all whp were not of their way f thinking , and decWing in the ^ solemn jognner , in the presence of the Suprern ^ aieing , that whosoever did not believe them should without < u « i ..
perish everlastingl y * Haw shall we cure the poor man in the north , who leaves his wife - and children to starvation 1 how shall we cure the unhappy nations that wrest judgment from the hands of God , and consign their tellow creatu re * to damnation !
Spain is not yet cured of its folly and impiety . The sufferings this unhappy nation has undergone , have not brought it to a true sense of its condition . It sticks closer to its idols of silver and of gold ; it retains intolerance as a chief feature in its system . It cannot free
itself from , the chain * of the priest , and is so entangled in his web of sophistry and delusion , that all the improvements of the three last centuries seem to be unknown to this degraded nation . The spirit of a people is seen in the acts of a delegated body collected , from its different quarters , and the Cortet has
within its body men of every province . They are deliberating in a peculiar position , in a situation in which one would think men would act under the highest principles of honour . Yet in this assembly , articles of a future Const itution have been presented by a committee appointed for the purposes ° f
which a leading one is , that the Roman Catholic and apostolic religion shall be the only one in Spain and its dependencies , to the exclusion of all others . Shocking as this article is ^ lerogatory to every principle of the human mind , and offensive to God and man , it has met with the countenance and approbation
of a periodical work in this country . Any established religion , they say , is better than none ; a proposition in which we can by no means concur : for if the state left the subject entirely to mnlmi
himself , the common sense oi would introduce a religious service , ana where ail were left at liberty to pu rsue the dictates of their own conscience , « ic truth is more likely to prevail at last ic
than where false principles . * » - blished by authority . But th « q »« tion is not , whether there should be an caw . Wished ' religion ^ . but whether ^ PPPJ ^ ope , tp be establisbed , XW - *«!*^' exclusive ; and ) iere we say tta ** *^ ness of man consist * , in doaaiftccr * \>
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636 S ( ate . of PuUic Affairs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 636, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/60/
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