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m «^^ te ^ fc *^ eS ^^ im ^ B aaniHBi ^^ a pat ^ i ^^ Hw ^ Wfy <* £ * aan vtjam new B 6 a ^ W union—those of common exertions itt the common cause of virtue—unite even rival nations ; when such ii ' < A ^^ M ^ 8 < I ^ benevolence is i * ^ a i ^^ f ^ N ^^ ^ i ^ fe ^ etf / tof
^ ca&iiiWf fi »^ when no dWI 8 ri ^ ^ v « SiMWes , f < frm an impediment ^ Q th ^/^ of benefic ^ tpl ^ ahthibpy ; vvhen every sect , eveiyiSfi ^ s ^^ lrr ^ t ^ stants , seems rivalling ' the % St jua ! (^ Mlic ardoulv Nor * witt )* t avjailbur opponents to
quote the example ef England in justification of a system of exclusion and of persecution . * It may he true that England is shamefully backward in recognizing the great claims of Christian liberty , and yet this is but a weak argument for the permanence of spiritual domination . It may also
be true , as M . de la Mennais asserts , that our Anglican Church threw off the yoke of ecclesiastical authority to submit to one more ignominious , that of the civil power ; f and yet this is far from proving that the human mind should be subjected to any yoke at all while pursuing its honest and rational
* P . 84 , " Les Anglais tol&rent l ' idolatrie h Ceylon , et persecutent le Catholicisme en Angleterre ! " &c . f I sometimes regret that amidst the discussions on the minor points of doctrine , the great principles which separated us originally from the Church of Rome are almost forgotten , and especially many
of the monstrous notions which distinguished the Papists before the Reformation . No intelligent modern Cathode would justify , the absurai | i # s held by his forefathers . The Catholicism we now
see around us , is a refopined feligfan * What would be paid , in the present djay , of one of the legends in im S&isttury breviary on Thomas & ^ B 6 bket ? Aqua . thomjg [ amnquies ,
Mimfla ^ % <^ % ia . \ ¦¦ : Ad ^ OT fe '&SyriSitf rjr > * ' . Qiiktfer ^ lui'd ^ c ^ ridit , - ¦• Et ( n skfifck' % ljc > vjlim > ' ^ ' ' ' ^ ^ mi ^ M ^ PV ^ Vrb ^ osi ^ of Ttotifflm ^^ that " eh | % ^^ item i ndtoldurtKm ^ w the title of H Our > Loi ^ d iGdd , ?! as giv ^ n
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could look roiind the ^ J ^^^ aa ^^ d ^ S " ana 8 ay—To it alone belojag ^ the shame . " ¦ . ?¦ < ¦; ,,. ' r rm ^ r ' tMA ^ -i ^ x
The Abbe might have spared ther contempt he pour 3 upon , the miserable ** hand&l '* ( poign ^ e ) 6 f refonriing Vaudois . f Tthey were not contemptible even for numbers , till mowed down by their merciless , persecutors , and one stain and stigma would be removed from the " Catholic Church" tf that : t ) Jack page of history could be blotted out . If Catholicism cannot resist the progress of knowledge , nor flourish amidst that general improvement which in the last thirty . years has wrought such wondrous changes in society , it has seen its best days—its knell is being tolled . When learning enabled its clergy to domineer over the vulgar , to the Pope , being a necessary deduction , and this leading to another consequence ,
that " every human creature must , toe subject to the papal authority" ? Lloyd on Papal Supremacy . * The Abbe says he would have heretics visited with only spiritual punishments . — Is that because these are the
most dreadful in the eye of a Cathphc ? Or is it ( M . Vincent asks ) in the same spirit with that of the Inquisition , whidh also disclaimed inflicting * civil penalties , and handed over its victims to the secular power , saying , " Be merciful" ? * h " Leur unique ressource est de chercher
des anc £ tres parmi les Albigeois , mfaine colonie de IVfcanich ^ enp , qui passfcrent d'Orient en ItaUe , et d ' ltalie dans les G ^ ules dont Us egpuvanterent le $ habit cms par des crimes incqnrws ; parmi l ^ s Vaudois M ,
une ppign ^ e d ' ^ obscurs fai ^ g . tiques , &c , ]>« 2 ) . 7 ? Yejt it was a French . Monarch who said of these sects , " They are better men than I or my Catholic subjects , "St . Bernard ' s authority ought to wqigh Jf
something wjth p , gathplfc ^ ^ p 4 ^ ^ s of them , ( the Wajdexw ?^) * VNo |^ u |^^ more Christian than ^ 1 fai ^ >? s ^| p CQmmendable than their , cp ^^^ fc ^* ^ and hanest in ^ W S »» . Mmp thpir promises . , e $% JKl ^? i ^ w , too , m a ^ »»« ^ 1 S ^»^ W 8 the same authority ^ i pro ^ l ^ ^ ^ ypQ ci * py were $ 00 e&t&w ^ wj ^^ ^ nd too J )» refac € i 4 ! gyien tq d ^ te fK ) nqealment . Serm . xxxiii .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1820, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2489/page/7/
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