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nowtofkr td atiehf ^ pebj ^ e ' 3 s ^ hwchwawtens ^ ovei ^^ er ^/ i aJih ^ btefif ^ l ^ H iV ^ or want'ofimci&pkf& < M wti&ahbtfldbe to be fountl m ot'fi ^ t'ev ^ pm ^ ^ M vthm'tm ' ishmd ' have U ^ wedit . The little use riitdeiti ihi $ dflffiBry ^ F riote ^^ ri ^ s tf ^ MI &r ^ desirable . ? Ml *' ' { ' « > ™ ' - ' 7 Ptiriftg IfiCdiWhQ ^ weahfea m ost useful act was passed * : for ^ ta ^ Whg hi $ vfcry parish a Registrar , f who should have the care of all thjntinicipal
^ r $ eoijds . Wm know that an alarm is always raised against the severance of the civil requisites of marriage from the religious ordinance . But there would be no necessity for any such dissociation ; on the contrary , an easy means would be provided for reconciling the one with the other .. The Registrar could attend at one form and place of worship as well as another , and there draw up and attest the civil results of what passes , as in fact the Notary
does in many Catholic countries at marriages . The manner in which the system has worked in France shews that a perfect registration of actual births and deaths is readily obtained ; and there is no necessity whatever ( if it be thought unadvisable ) to make marriages dependent on the act of the municipal officer only , who is easily grafted upon such a religious ordinance as is likely to procure that sort of moral and devotional obligation which can alone make it useful for the state to interfere with that department at all .
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Art . II—Bible Controversy in Ireland . Infallibility not possible . Error not Culpable ; with some notice of Transubstantiation ; in Reply to Messrs . Pope and Macguire ; in Letters to Irishmen in particular , and to Catholics and Protestants at large . By the Author of " A Letter on the Immateriality of the Human Soul . " London , Hunter . 1828 . pp . 212 . 8 vo .
We have read this very able treatise ( the production , if we are not mistaken , of one who has been our correspondent ) with almost unqualified approbation ; and should it , as it ought , be studied by the various parties in the theological arena , we believe it will essentially serve the cause of genuine Reformation . The publication arises out of the celebrated discussions between the Romanist and the Protestant whose names occur in the
title-page ; but the careful , complete , and impartial manner in which our author has executed the work , should obtain for it a place among standard treatises on the Roman Catholic controversy , and cannot fail , we think , of meeting with high commendation from the clear-judging of ail religious denominations .
The Prefatory Letter is addressed to the author ' s Roman Catholic countrymen ; and we cannot do better than allow him to describe the impression made upon his mind by the recent discussions , of which he seems amply qualified to judge , and of the important consequences likel y to result from them .
" We have all one object in common—the discovery or preservation of truth . And in proportion as truth is a blessing to mankind , it becomes a duty to hail afl an auxiliary , and to welcome as a friend , on whichever side his conclusions may lie , one who , with sincerity and discretion , advances * fco diir aid in this great pursuit . I believe the spirit of free inquiry to hav $ bto 6 n considerably awakened in Ireland . I am prone to hope that a new leaf has been opened in the destinies . of h # r people * and without Mto # an enthusiast ,
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542 Rev $ ew > - ^ Bible Controversy irrlreUtnd .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1828, page 542, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2563/page/30/
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