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* I inspect that history will not sustain Mt ^ Sharp ' * opinion that « the Crown ' of France has offered mare support to the" papacy * * ' than any other of the Europe * Powers . Myvenerabie acduftintanpe appears not to have recollected the frequent contentions of that Cr 6 \ # n "with the Court of Rome for fhe liberties of the Galliqan Church ,
the absence of an Inquisition , and the Toleration of Protestants , under the name of the Pretended Reformed , fW > m the tytne of Henry IV ., through , a large > art of the l * 7 th oeitfurj , though the Topration was gradually infringed and at ength abolished by the-revocation of the Edict of Nantes r in 1685 . Nor ,
whatever the Church might desire , can it be correctly , alleged that the State 9 in France , generally interfered , as in Spain , Portugal , and perhaps papal Germany , "to 4 epriye the common people of the . Holy Scriptures . " I have in my possession two evidences to the contrary . One is the French Teftement of the Protestants , . printed in 166 $ : to which is annexed Maroi
and Beza ' s Version of th e Psalms , and tjbe Prayers , Catechism , &c . used by t ) je trench Prptesjant Churches .. This volume , as appears by the . titlepage , was publicly sold by a bookseller at Charenton and Paris . But the other
evidence is still more to the purpose : it is rd- F rench Testament / published atR p Uin 17 ( 34 , with , the cus ^ ternary pr ivilege du j&oi . , ; The Mass is prefi ^ e ^} , wi $ * a Eren ch tra nslation . obprt , notes . are added to the text of * the New Testament : and besides the
common division into . chapters , there is a mpr , c rational , arrangement by sections and patagrap ^ is , and a preface , xecoov mending tjie study of the- Scriptures-This eqijtioa , of 17 § 4 is descried as a rewpublvca ^ qn of one that- had been uty
printed m 1746 . Xh ^» . ^ ev ^ years ago , at le ^ st , any , J ^ nchjpaaiH r So . disp posed , imght have * purcha ^ ecj , at Paris , the New Te ^ tanie ^ t ap ^ $ ' ej&t ? iqp . tf his national Ch u rch , in his pauve language , as freely : as . ao Englishman
could purchase in LQnicJpti the Liturgy of his Cfa ^ ir ^ h ' an ^ , t ^ c authpmed Ver-« ipn , so ^ tlsely 4 ^ 3 C fji bed , by a fevaujrite Pious £ fiiu <} $ \ pi $ wU&iti note or comment * ican ^ ^ elp al ^ 4 i pg jAi e tes timon y pt ^ P r , Geddes , xif , ^ xx ^ Prospectus * ; Hav-W % ftsnsujr ^ the , opinion . " that the ^ 'JWW ^ sh ouja , loot « tie . translated \ ntp $ m $ totf&we ^ , h remarts ^ r >^ \ q % V'tWW f f o ^ fr ^ ief has . ci ^ ie ^ y obt ained ^ thpj ^ iwwitries where ^> e Inquisition
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has been established . " He adds , that " in-France and Qermany a different system lias at all times , more or less , prevailed /' Having this occasion again to mention Mr . Sharp , I recollect , whkt T ought to haVe , noticed sooner , the
letter of I ^ i . H . ( p . 27 ) occasioned by my * former communication . After , all , your respectable correvSpontlent * s c ! j £ ference with Mr . Jenyns ^ like . rtftat of Mr . Sharp , appears to be little oi 9 re than verbal . The reference wnicji he makes to the great exemplar of
Christians , may well serve to settle the que& * tion . tJL « -H .. considers Christ as . a pa * l / iofy because he wept over Jerusalecn , the metropolis of his native land . " But would he not have wept as freely over Rome or Athens , had he beeri commissioned , a messenger of diving judgments , to either of those cities ? The
disciples of Christ were-indeed patri " ot % according to the constitutjpii ' ahdf practice of all our Chjisiian governments . In one case they wondered that their Master talked with , a woniap , . Who was a stranger to the coinm . o $ wealth , of Israel , and , on another occasion they asked sfqr ^ firejr ofn heaven * tq j&yeoge ant incivHit ^ ofieued by their iiatmalenemies * the Samaritans . \ \ - v \> n ? . t Irema -i ^ Sitv ^ ^ ' > Yours , , : ., 4 ¦ - ••»• ' ¦
J . T . RTJTT . Extract of d . Letter-from Gn&wffle Skprp t « rr . a m * ' . ,
" I ft $ e \ great concern for tfre distresses which nawst necessarily b ^ occasioned to the Marquis of ' Bellegarde , and . bis ami * able fyxmfy ,, by Uie eruption of the , Freaeh Army into ^ Qf Voy :- they were in p ^ s ^ ess ^ oa
not , only of Chanaberyy wher ^ the Mar ^ uii has a hpus * , but al ^ o > oX the . Chateau de * March es , $ he superb » eat of the famil y , a » d . p ^ ojj ab ) y ^ posses ^ iou j ^ lsO ; of most < of J tbe mai ^ uia ' s estate , so t ^ t undoubtedly the fapiuiy m **§\ JUaife been objjigf ^ to fly * ~
" . Hie ret ^ eat ^ of t ^ ie coittfrmed a ^ my i § Btateii in a yari / ety of accounts r ^ o t ^ a ^ there U nqvruo dpq ^ X . . of- thfaf » ctf ai > 4 of / course the French ljlevol ^ tion , n ^ si be established The process of it h ^ been more exUtordinary t ^ hon any event , in the history of France , qr any other nation for many a ^ es .
and qontaioa a variety pf yery singular Uistancesof Gq 4 ' s ppovide . u e in the time ly discovery of secret plots and intended insurrections ^ wbicb the preaept Atbeistir cal sl . atc . of that naticm pi ^ venffr , th ^ jfrom ^ t >« eryiag for tjbiey ignwwo&f imputf all f their /^ c ^ css t » ^ hefr »\\ a valour and phHosopjiy . . s
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Letter qf Grartville Sharp ' s on the 'French Revolution . £ 37
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/29/
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