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    What will he think , when he finds that in the nation most zealous for the diffu - sion of scriptural knowledge , adultery has been termed , in the seat of just ce , a misfortune , and in the court of legislation corruption is connived at , because it is notorious as the sun at noon day , and all parties concur in covering , instead of setting-themselves in earnest to correct , the evil ? How will he estimate

    the value of our sacred books and our regard for them , if they are really good , when he reads of the atrocious murders committed amongst us , and above all , when he understands , that the disciples of the Prince of Peace have been living in a state of warfare with each other , upwards of twenty years , and arc guilty « f as great outrages in warfare as the

    most unenlightened nations ? The edict will , we hope , have a place , in due time , in this Repository * * « ftd . we shall have a hetter opinion of the zeal of the members of the Bible Society , if they should be as solicitous to diffuse a correct translation of our sacred books , in the English language , at home , as they are to

    circulate translations in foreign languages abroad . They know as well as we do , that the bible , wretch they circulate , is very incorrect \ -that we possess advantages , which were not known in the time of king James : and it is not to their honour to pay less attention to the best of books , than is paid to the least

    ¦ worthy of the classical writers * We shall not cease to bring this home to the feelings of the members of the Bible Society , whose funds are sufficient , and who possess talents within themselves to give a correct translation from the Hcbrew and Greek scriptures , from Kennicott ' s Bible and Griesbach ' s

    Testament , with the helps and improvements , that have been made , or their learning and talents cari suggest . The Catholic question begins to be more noticed in this country than mignt have been expected . From Ireland petitions on both sides of the question nave been frequent , but little has been done on this side of the water . The

    clergy of the sect established by law , have put themselves in motion , and are uniting in petitions against their brethren , who are less entangled by obedience to the pope than the Established Sect by its thirty nine articles . The clergy of the diocese of Exeter are setting a better example , for they request parlia-^^^___

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    ment not to be misled by prejudices but to take the whole subject into consideration , and to give such relief as is consistent with the welfare of the state . A petition against the Catholics has been vamped up in London by a few people in a tavern , and in one or two vestry meetings ; but the general sense of the town has not been taken , either in the council or common hall , or by a

    meeting in Westminster , nor do we imagine that the Anti-catholics would succeed in any such measure . The general bias seems to be boh in and out of parliament , that something should be done , that a committee , at least , should be formed to enquire how far the toleration may be extended , and

    what real danger is to be apprehended by the admission of men of all religions to the service of the state . This the Established Sect is very much afraid of , for it will then be seen how few they are in number , and how preposterous it is for the sake of a small part of a body consisting of not two-sevenths of the

    people , the other five-sevenths should be deprived of their rights . The Catholic bishops of Ireland have published an address to their adherents , in which they declare , that they will not grant faculties of any kind to any clergyman , who has asserted that their afflicted holy father ( meaning thereby his pretended holiness , the pope ) is a heretic *

    or a schismatic , or the author , or the abettor of heresy or schism . ^ Also that , as they are at present excluded from any intercourse with their supreme pastor , they feel themselves utterly incapable to propose or agree to any change in the long-established mode of appointing Irish Roman Catholic bishops . In another resolution they state , and with

    frcat propriety , that the reverence paid y Roman Catholics to their oaths , is , evident , from their not taking those which are appointed by government j and they exhort their flock to continue steadfast in the opinions , held by their forefathers ; forgetting to make their appeal to Jesus , the author and

    completer of our faith . The difficulties in which the papists are placed by the conduct of his present pretended holi-r ness are great : for he is actually stigmatised , by some good Catholics , as a heretic and a schismatic ; and his trans * actions with Buonaparte have been such as to give a strong colour to the charge * Popery has , however , in former timefu

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/79/