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CAtji 0 ! ie ' . chUrcfe , do say that the hply Virgin Mary be the mpther of God ; but she do not allow us ta say that S t # A n n bet he gra nd - mother of God . " " Sir , my father has taught me that no ch urch
has authority to teach what is not taught in the scriptures . ' * f Ah Mademoiselle , your father be one very good roan j I do love him very much , but he be in very great dangerous errors . I do pray to the holy Trinity , and to the holy mother of my God that he be convinced of bis great bad errors , ^ " Sir , 1 have no doubt but
that my father is much obliged to yo ^ u for your charitable prayers ; fc # J have he $ rd him say , that charity always edifies him ; but ^ hafc he expects sound argument
for the conviction of his mind . " The priest hastily arose , and say * l&gr * " Bon jour , Mademoiselle , tqn jour , " he retired . ; IcannQt help . noticing the value «| f dmt -truly Protestant maxim
that " T ^ e Bible—the Bible only , is the religion of Pro testants . " This maxim , fully imbibed , gave to ( bis intelligent child the advan - tage over an aged and zealous Cathohc priest . Alas ! she is no longer in the land of the living .
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American Divines * Sjh , A particular friend has favoured Bielt with a volume of Serrnons , termed Occasional * ,- printed at Boston , May , 1812 , % Manning fcftd korjug . They manifest the
great progress which the New England , divines are . making in /^ tional preaching j ^ nd elegancy *>/ . I composition . > As they will , Pfes ^ pa e , & $ meb e fore your critical correspondents in due time , I
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shall only say that I imagine the first to be Mr . Freeman ' s , preach . * ed at the ordination of his colleague . As they are accompanied , however , with several entertaining notes , I shall forward to you some of these , and one in particular in which Dr . Chauncey is mentioned . There are five notes added to the
first , a part of which is the following . "As the French divines have preached on particular occa ^ sions only , they have had their choice of the subjects which ad ~ mit the finest displays of oratory . But that these are not many in
number is evident from the facts ^ that their most persuasive preachers , Bossuet , Bourdaloue , Cheminais , and Massillon , have selected nearly the same . The English divines , on the contrary ,
though they have produced fewdiscourses which , in the opinion of the critics , deserve the name of finished orations , have yet , in a great variety of styles , treated the greatest possible variety of sub- *
jects . Perhaps no nation can exhi bit , under the form of sermons , such an immense body of theolo . gical learning , powerful argument , and sound morality . The French have satisfied themselves with
planting in quincunx order a small grove pf cedars of Lebanon ; but the English have , without regiu larity , planted a vast forest , in which is to be found every tree that is good for food , or useful in
medicine . It will be happy for the preachers of the United States , if they do not make too much haste to forget that they are the descendants of a nation , among
whom , reason and good s ^ nse , moderation and liberality , *** held in high esteem ; but wbibt they copy the correctness aiMj * k >*
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American Divines * 4 O 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/17/
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