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« ft * ef * ce , will publish the sermon in question , as welt as another , pteacheci at Manchester the following Sunday , both of which are eminently entitled to the dispassionate attention of candid Christiara of all denominations . Mr . Johns intends to reduce the materials of which his sermon chiefly Consists , into the form of a tract . The riext Quarterly Meeting will be held at Cokey-moor , on Goodfriday . W * J .
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quite unnecessary to inquire into the motive : but then , why do they disturb ( he common people of the interior ? Appointing ~ un < - authorisedly priests and other functionaries , who spread this through all the provinces , in ou * . vious infraction of the law : and
the common people , - deceived by them , they succeed each other from generation to generation , unwilling to depart from their delusion . This may approach very near to being a rebellion . Re * fleeting that the said religion nei * ther holds spirits in veneratipn nor ancestors in reverence . —clear *
] y this is to walk contrary to sound doctrine ; and the common people , who follow and familiarise themselves with such delusions , in what respect do they differ from a rebel mob ? If there is not decreed some punishment , how shall the evil be eradicated ?—**
and bow shall the human heart be rectified ? From this time forward , such Europeans as shall privately print books and establish preachers , in order to pervert the multitude , —<•* and the Tartars and Chinese *
who , deputed by Europeans , shall propagate their religion , bestoaving names , and disquieting num * bers , shall have this to look to *— - The chief or principal one shaM be executed ;—whoever shall
spread their religion , not making much disturbance , nor to many men , and without giving names , shall be imprisoned , waiting the time of execution : —mx . d those who shall content themselves with following such religion , with our wishing to reform themselves , < tbey shall be exited to He-lau-keang , Sec . As for Tartars , they fchalj
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& 2 Intelligence—Chinese Edict againtl Christianity .
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Spanish into English . I have not seen the original Chinese paper , I have seen several papers in the Pekin Gazette , of which the following is indeed the substance .
Chinese Edict against Christianity . Canton , Aprils , 1812 . The following Edict was tran * s ^ ted from the Chinese into Spanixh , by a Romish Missionary at Macao : and translated out of
In those papers , however , the magistrates also are threatened with degradation , dismissal from the service of government , &c . if they connive at the promulgation
of what th ( y denominateTEENCif u Keaou {/ he religion of the -Lord of Heaven )* the nnm »» which the Romish Missionaries have adopted ^ R . M .
The Criminal Tribunal , by order of the Emperor , conformably to a Representation made by Han , the Imperial Secretary ( in which he desired that the P . ro * ni * l ga ; tw !> n of the Christian Religion might be obviated ) decrees as follows : —
Thre Eurcprans worship God , hetariso , m their own country they aie used to do so j a , nd it is
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/62/
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