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      Interesting as , in a variety of ways , it is to watch the progress of religious Reformation , and dear to the hearts of Protestants as that cause must ever be , the triumph of wjrich is the triumph of Scripture over tradition , one wholesome , chastising thought alike mingles with our exultation in the success of Protestantism , and our sympathy for the sufferings of those

      who were its early martyrs ; and this is , the need we have to blush for the inconsistency of our professed admiration for the faithful of old , with much of our own actual practice ; and never has this humiliating source of reflection pressed upon us with more power , than in comparing the spirit manifested in the Introductory Essay , by the Translator of that part of Sismondi ' s excellent History <> i the French , which treats of the wars against the Alhigenses , with the spirit of the facts furnished in that work from .

      which be has compiled his volume . Admiration for the heroic bravery of the persecuted Protestants comes exceedingly ill from those who have no emulation of their holy confidence . In the face of tortures and death they embraced a faith which we have not courage to hold without calling in tbe petty aid of penalties and disabilities * They pursued good in defiance of all the hosts of evil : me are doing evil that good may come . It is this wa&

      of faith in the power of Providence to protect us from the apprehended bad consequences of a just action , this want of moral and religious courage , which grieves the spirit of a Christian , and makes him feel that the advocates of universal toleration have a yet deeper evil to contend with tban bigotry towards the brethren , ?—even distrust of the protection of Him who is pkdged to uphold the just .

      The lately published English " History of the Crusades against the Albigenses" is merely a translation and selection of those parts of M , Sismondi's work which relate to the Albigensian persecutions . It is a very interesting and a useful volume ; but it seems to have been published with the yiew of frightening Protestants by another representation of the horrors of Popery . The author conceives it a useful thing to seek for " the claims of the Church

      of < Rome , not from private opinions , but from its own authoritative and deliberate acts . '' And the crusades against the Albigenses " seem , " says he , *< to present one of those occasions by which the rights claimed by the church towards heretics , may be most fully and accurately ascertained . " Lest it should be answered , that these crusaxtes , having taken plage § 00 years ago , are hardly a fair mle by which to measure the present claims of the Romish Church , we are warned that she has never renounced these claims ,

      and that we have therefore a right to demand a renunciation , " as public and authoritative as the exercise of them has ever been , or to guard ourselves against their repetition by aucfr prudential and cautionary measures as the 'Circumstances of the times may require . '' What degree of ass-everance would ( satisfy this author , U is . difficult to say , The Church of Uomehas already disclaimed interference wMfc the ;

      goyernjnentof Protestant stated , and with , the oaths of C&tfeolic subjects to Protqsr tant riders . But , he se $ in&to attach fer . moje importance to a pier c e focfamr toon than hi / story and experience warrant . Nothing js more cpmnaop , . unhappily , than that ruletia , both civil and ecck ^ ia ^ ic , sJtould avoid tbe fulfilment of their iuconvieaieut . promises ; aod ( if a just an ( i generous dee ^ is not to be done till 4 he flighted paths , af » w / can J ? e reoo ££ { l on with

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      M . SISMONDT ON ST . LOVIS AND ON THE CRUSADES AGAINST THK ALBIGENSES .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1828, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2560/page/19/