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    • 9 MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS' * OR j The Christian 9 s Survey of the Political WorldL^
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      The Catholic question is of far greater importance than its proposers or opposers ever attributed to it . Party may nave influenced it , ai » d worldly politics had a great bias on the sentiments of all sides . But we look beyond the narrow schemes of the worldly politician ; who is far from being what he deems himself to be , a very mighty and

      imporrant agent in the affairs of the world . He is merely an instrument in the hands of a Superior , whose thoughts are not as our thoughts , nor his ways as our ways ; who can bring good out of evil , and turn fche vain designs of men to purposes which they never imagined , and to which , could they have foreseen the result of their efforts , they would never have given their assent .

      The two chief Catholic sects in this island bara opposed each other , as it is * a id , tooth and nail , and the established sect has gained a temporary superiority . Jts spirit has thus been shewn \ but we h&ve -now to * record a geiierous act on * he part of a third sect , which is established in the northern part of this island . The kirk of Scotland in its

      grand constituted asse&ibly , consisting of elders and ministers , has petitioned Parliament in favour of the Catholics . This is ^ a firm and decisive ftfeep . The opposition of the churchmen of Enghmd was carried on in what we might call an underhand way , by all' tfee

      sohemes of narrow politics ; in Scotland he question was discussed in a solemn manner , and the result was highly honourable to its numbers . The Catho-Itcs xnay now boast that they have a v $ ry deeicjed majority of : the population of tto « United -Kingdom in their-favour ; and M ^ fe -trust that this-act of the kirk

      of Scotland will produce a beneficial effect tf n the niinds of those dissenters in England , w ho * desjrous of civil privileges for themselves , refuse to allow their neighbours'claim to an equal participation with them in what in fact is the common right of all mankind . We must here impress oa the minds of our readers , that the kirk of Scot-

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      land is as much established by kw \ n the Nonh , as the church of England U in the South of this i&Lartd- Thecjbujrchman with , all his pride and selffconsequence here becomes , the moment he passes the Tweed , a dissenter . His

      arrogance must give way to pretensions founded on just as good a clasm for superiority as he advances here : and we , who look upon both as merely civil institutions , in which the church of Christ is no more concerned ihan

      with the respective arrangements of the army and navy , cannot bat smile at these changes of superiority in the eniscopal £ a £ i and piiest ^ yterjiarjr . IJut t&e difference c \ f the two churches ia the treatment of the catholic question leads

      us to a more accurate iqvesU ^ atipn of their constitution , and to attribute ^ superiority to that of Scotland , which though it does not remove the charge of assimiiatipn to the kingdoms of this world , yet holds out the hope that it may gradually be brought nearer to a resemblance of the church of Christ .

      Very happily for the country the convocation is no longer permitted to sit ; Toe il it did it would , be nierelyan as-££ n * bly pf priests , than which it is inippssible to conceive a worse for , the general qomfort aad improvertie ^ it of mankindX % c church of England is

      . rule 4 by certain laws , of whicb the bishops are the chief executive officers , in Scotland is a representative bo 4 y > consisting of ministers and elders , or in vulgar terms , of clergy and laity , in which the affairs of the church are

      decided . The mixture of the laity , as they are called , a , t

      community . This may be called strong language , but we appeal to the history of mankind for the proof of oar assertion . Every

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/64/