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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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1 . He corrected the Deism of the iews , confirming them in their belief of one only God , and giving them glister notions of his attributes and government .
2 . His moral doctrines , relating to kindred and friends , were more pure and perfect than thpse of the most correct of the philosophers , and greatly more so than those of the Jews . And they went far beyond both in
inculcating universal philanthropy , not only to kindred and friends , to neighbours and countrymen , but to ell mankind , gathering all into one family , under the bonds of love , eharity and peace , common wants
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Narrative of a celebrated Auto de F 69 in the City of Logrono , [ That the following ISTarrative may not be ^ suspected of having been coioured b y Protestant prejudice , we think it right to preface it , by an extract from the private letter of our Correspondent , who will , we trust , excuse this freedom . " I am not at
all sure that the enclosed deserves a place in the Monthly Repository > but 1 think I can pjoniise you that what is meant tp follow , will have more that is extraordinary and interesting—if it be interesting to trace the extravagancies , the worse than extravagancies , of the human character . The deeds of the
inquisition have usuall y been narrated by its enemies : this is its own authorised official narrative . The documents I examined had been scrutinized -with the utmost care , and every individual sentence was marked with the
rubric of one of the inquisitors . They were signed by the different individuals who were employed in the commission , frnd addressed , I think , to the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo , Dr . B . de Sandobal y J loias , who was at that time at the head of the holy office . " Ed . ]
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XN ( he m . O 3 t illustrious period of the literary aunals of Spain ( the beginning ot the 17 th century ) , an ecclesiastical commission was sent by the | iol y office tQ celebrate an auto de fe in the city of Logrono . The writer of the present article has had an oi 7 portu ~ riity of examining the origin *! documents of its proceedings Os tne y escaped from the archives of $ he iuqui-
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and common aids . A developc nicnt of this head will evince the peculiar superiority of the system of Jesus over all others . 3 . The precepts of philosoph y and of the Hebrew code laid hold " of a £ tions only . He pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man , erected his tribunal in the region of his thoughts and purified the waters at the fountain head .
4 . He taught emphatically the doctrine of a future state , which was doubted or disbelieved by the Jews and wielded it with efficacy as an important incentive ; supplementary to the other motives to moral conduct .
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sition in the confusion accompanying the late invasion of Spain ) , and he can vouch for the general correctness of the following narrative . The extirpation of witchcraft was the main object of this religious embassy j but it "was commissioned to extend its fearful power to every thing
111 the shape of heresy . An account of its proceedings was printed in l 6 ll by a zealous Catholic , " desirous ( as he informs his readers ) that they being aware of the iniquities of the devilish sect of witches , " may " watch over the 6 afety of their houses and families . " The Cortes , who saw that to unmask
spiritual tyranny would be to subdue it , encouraged a re-publication of the pamphlet ( of which four editions have been printed ); but bigotry ha 9 now succeeded in consigning it to temporary oblivion . The writer , however , has the pleasure of knowing that many of the MSS . containing the official
narratives of the foul and ferocious deeds of the inquisition have escaped from its dark and secret chambe rs . They am lodged in security , and wi J one day instruct and shame the world . The relation of the proceedings oi the Logrono commission is prepared by the recommendation of a Franciscan friar , who says that " the book contains nothing against our holy re ligionand good Christian custom , estimating of course . that to torture a " burn heretics is a very " good Uirisiian custom ) , " but on the contrary , what is very true and necessary to told to all the faithful , to undeceive u » deceits of Satan /*
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576 Narrative of a celebrated Auto de Fe in the City of Logron * .
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1816, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2457/page/12/
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