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last sentence of the paragraph . But we observe , that religion , if it be any thing , has its sanctuary in the heart , ftf . de la Mennais himself allows it . Law has not , then , and ought not to have , anv controul over it . The exterior acts
of religion are visible , and thereby may give a handle to the law . But is it right that the law should constrain us to hypocrisy ? Can any thing be gained by rendering the conscience pliant . ? And if conscience be what it ought , do not we expose ourselves to
gratuitous evils , by framing laws which we know to be in opposition to it ? Whether the Protestants are right or wrong in making the hanging out of tapestries an affair of conscience , we do not pretend to determine . But if they refrain
from really conscientious motives , what advantage is contemplated in coercing them by law ? Where , then , is the contempt for religion exhibited in the words of M . Odillon Barrot , and in the decision of the Supreme Court ?
A Protestant pastor who , without doubt , had not read M , Odillon Barrot , except in the version of M . de la Mennais , is indignant at his language . Does he regret the time is passed when the Jaws could constrain in
religious matters ? He exclaims , " See to what a pitch the luminaries of the age have conducted us ! " Would he , then , desire the return of the age of Charles IX . ?
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The Melanges de Religion , for April , gives an account of Specimen Academicum Inaugurate , exhibens Commentationem in Psalmum ex . ; by J . T . Bergman . This gentleman is a minister belonging to the Walloon churches in the United Provinces .
1 hese have been long on the decline , owing , says the Journal before quoted , to two causes , —the naturalization of the descendants of the refugees , and the perfection of Dutch preaching . If
they had the happiness to see training up for them such ministers as they at present possess in Messrs . Huet and Pareau , and the author of this Thesis ,
there would be some counterpoise to the causes of their decline , and they would carry on the rivalry with more chance of success . Before he maintained with so much success for his degree of D . D . his Thesis upon Poalm
ex ., he had already gained equal honour in the Faculty of Philosophy , by his Specimen Aeademicum Inaugurate , exhibens Isocratis Areopagiticum , instructum lectionis varietate et
annotatione . The school of FFyttcmbach , adds our author , and that of Professor Van Voorst ought to be equally wellpleased in sueh a pupil as M . Bergman . He had previous to these learned epe-
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Notice $ of Foreign Theological Literature * 307
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HOLLAND . The theological branch of the Soeitti TeyUrienne at Harlem , proposed as the subject for the prize to be adjudged in the month of November last , the following question : " Dating from the Augsburg Confession , what influence have Formularies and Creeds
of that nature had on theological studies ? How far does our experience of that influence recommend either that formularies and confessions of faith should be disused , or that a new mode of drawing them up should be devised ; and , in the latter case , what
form would be entitled to claim the preference ? " Although out of the four essays which were presented , all of them written in the Dutch language , that numbered 1 , having for its motto , Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up , and that numbered 2 , with the motto , ** 9 c fundament am est libenatis , kic
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fons cequitatis , were , in many respects , considered worthy of approbation ; yet the prize was not awarded . The Society proposed , as a fresh subject , " What was the origin , atid what has been the progress , of the Bible Societies now
existing in so many parts of the world ? With respect to Religion and Morality , what has been the result of propagating the Sacred Code , by means of these Societies , amongst uncivilized nations , or amongst such nations as , though more or less civilized , are not less ignorant of Christianity ? What hopes for futurity have we reason to cherish ?
And , are the means employed by the Societies the most likely to attain their object , or could others be adopted more capable of ensuring success ?" The offered prize is a gold medal , of the value of 400 florins ( 800 francs ) ; the essays , written legibly in Dutch , Latin , French or English , with the name of each author , sent in a sealed note , must be delivered in before the 1 st of January 1822 , addressed to the JFondation de feu Pierre Teyler Van Hulst , at Harlem .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/51/
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