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go ordered as itself to conduce to good ! But , after having been purified by desolation , the mind of man has made a stride into a new state of things , and the principles of nature , refined from the prejudices of heathenism , instead of oDstructing , have long been furthering the advancement of true religion , and bid fair to lead it to perfection . The light of divine truth has gradually dissipated that darkness which was ordained , as the flood of old , to change ttie
world ; and now , for the first time since the appearance of Christ , can we argue from the workings of the human mind and from past experience , that the truth has been on the increase , is yet increasing , and shall permanently continue to increase , until it attain its utmost perfection . Through all the past ages we are able to account for the tarnished apparel under which our virgin faith hath been deformed ; but now she claims her bridal garments . United to truth , an empire is now founded , whose dominion shall be
extended over the whole earth , and whose sway shall have no bound . The very reasons which account for the slow progress and garbled state of the gospel dispensation , lead us now to hope and expect never-ending extension to its pure precepts . W . D .
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We proceed with some further observations on this subject , in addition to those in the last number . Great changes have been poduced by the determined conduct of Austria , as to the exercise of churcn power by the Pope in her territory , and the concessions which the see of Rome has in consequence deemed it advisable to make to other governments , in order to save them from the necessity of following so dangerous an example .
In this the Papal see does not make a very respectable figure . It has not receded from its unjust pretensions from a sense of right , nor has it honestly renounced them ; but it has been compelled virtually from fear and necessity . The history of the transactions between the Emperor Joseph II . and the Pope , is a most curious and interesting one . We have before traced the results ; it is sufficient here to repeat , that without any regard to the court of Rome , and without any fear of a rupture with it , Joseph proceeded to get rid entirely of the Papal dominion in his empire . The severe lesson given by Austria on matters of jurisdiction has not
been lost . The ecclesiastical law of that country says , that the House of Austria does not condescend to solicit from the Pope rights which never belonged to him ; and the Pope , in fear of the same uncivil remark from other quarters , has made haste to resign them . Thus , the convention between Pius VII . and the late King of Bavaria , for the arrangement of eccle * siastical matters , after a new arrangement of the chapters , revenues of the
bishops , seminaries , &c , states in the ninth article , that his Holiness gives up for ever to the King the right of naming to the vacant arcJibishoprics ana bishoprics , and settles that there shall be a new valuation of the Annats , &c . The Pope is to name to one dignity ( the Praepositura ) in each cathedral ; the King to the deaneries ; to the King the Pope resians also the nominations in the alternate months ; the archbishops and bishops are to give all the benefices in their patronage to persons agreeable to the King ; and they are to take an oath of strict fidelity to him , containing a promise that they will hold no communication , and be present at no council , &c , which can hurt the public peace * By thus yielding to the stem , the church in Bavaria
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STATE OP CATHOLICISM IN GERMANY , &C .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/11/
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