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sisting little on their peculiar opinions , are now generally contented to meet upon the common ground of a rejection ot the pretensions of human merit . It may he hoped , that what may still remain of the disagreement will be wholly forgotten in the opposition to a common adversary . "—Pp . 49 , 50 . The following is a curious inducement to conviction .
" Already in the neighbourhood of Sligo , as has been remarked , an opinion has begun to prevail among Roman Catholics , that the religion of the Protestants was soon to have the superiority . ijow rapidly would the Reformation be extended , if such an opinion were to be generally entertained !"—P . 54 . ' There is something of the sublime in the following .
" Whoever looks into the history of the three centuries which have elapsed since the commencement of the Reformation , must be convinced that the Church of England has been , and is at this day , the grand and powerful support of the Protestant chucches of Europe , and consequently must necessarily have been , aud continue to be , the main
object of the jealousy and hostility of the Papacy , as it has struggled , and is still struggling , to regain its lost ascendancy over the governments of the west . From England , indeed , and even from Britain , the efforts of the Papacy were , after some struggle , wholly excluded , though not without a change of the reigning dynasty . Ireland , however , specially subjected to
the Papacy in the very introduction of the English power , still very extensively acknowledges the Papal supremacy . Here then is the hold which the Papal dominion still possesses of the United Kingdom . That it attaches importance to the hold is manifest from this fact , that the
cpncerna of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland , are subjected ; to , a . special con grc&atlou of cardm ^ tftopgh a regular hierarchy has always existed in . the country . That tfye object of t ) ie gr ^ sp is not limited to the local ; interests of , Ireland , the esta ^ s ) MB , ent a ^ Sftpneyjiurat , and its active injterposition . mu $ t demon-
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strate , if demonstration be required . It Is the deadly gripe of an antagonist , who will never relinquish the struggle , until he shall have been wholly overcome . Either England must subdue the Papacy by reforming Ireland , or the Papacy will overthrow the Church and Constitution
of England . The Protestant religion of England , indeed , cannot altogether perish , though , possibly , in the awful dispensations of the Divine judgments , it may yet require to experience a renewed ascendancy of the Pope , as in the bloody , though brief , reign of Mary , the Reformation of England was originally purified . But , while we are confident of the permanence of our religion , we should
struggle to maintain also the permanence of our religious and of our civil institutions . If the spirit of those institutions has become languid in undisturbed tranquillity , let us endeavour to restore it to its original vividness ; let us act , as if the struggle in which we are now engaged were the appointed means of the Divine Providence for reanimating the friends of a Protestant Church and
Constitution , aud we may avert a calamitous visitation by rendering it unnecessary . " —Pp . 54 , 55 .
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Art . VIII .- —TV Test-Aot Reporter . No . I . January , 1828 . To be continued Monthly . London . 6 d . Tijis is the first number of a little publication under the auspices of the United Committee for conducting the Application to Parliament for t ) ie Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts .. We hail it not only as a symptom of activity and of , incasing , interest on the part of
thQ Dissenters , but as intended to furnish An accurate and complete historical record of wjiat takes place on so important a question * If the Dissenters of the present day have any energies to awaken , they will hail a publication of this sort , which merges all minor , differences iw the grand design Qf asserting , and extending t ^ e , most generous principles of Religious Liberty .
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126 Critical Notices .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 126, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/54/
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