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into the bleeding flesh * Wherever you see a beautiful estate and fertile land , if you ask who is the proprietor , you are generally told , * It is forfeited land , ' once belonging" to Catholics , now to Protestants . —Not longago a law was in force , ordaining tha ^ no Catholic should hold landed property in Ireland ; and if a Protestant could prove before a court of justice
that this was in any instance the case , the property was taken from the Catholic and given to him : the only remedy lay in a feigned conversion . But in spite of this bounty on hypocrisy and deceit , land to the value of millions of pounds was transferred into the hands of Protestants by this atrocious process . Is it not marvellous that Protestants , who in a barbarous age severed themselves from the Romish Church on account of her
intolerance and rapacity , should now , in an enlightened one , cherish the very same vices—thus incurring a far greater comparative load of guilt than they would have had to bear before I Will this monstrosity , the offspring of despotism and hypocrisy , which has so long been nourished by the tears and blood of the world , never be destroyed by more enlightened generations £ If ever it is , they will look back upon us with the same sort of pity as we do upon the darkness of the middle ages / ' —Vol . II . pp . 39—42 . t €
That such a contrast should exist between England and Ireland , and under the same government too ; that it should be suffered to endure for centuries , is indeed afflicting to every philanthropic mind . Unbridled bigotry and rapacity , unwilling to disgorge any part of its former prey , are the causes;—six millions of human beings the victims 1 " —Vol . II . p . 74 .
The Established Worship . " The English Protestant service differs very much from ours : it is a strange mixture of Catholic ceremony and Protestant simplicity . Pictures on the walls are not suffered—on the windows they are . The dress of the priests , even of the archbishops , consists only of a white surplice . On the other hand , the seat of the latter , built like a throne , and covered with purple
velvet and adorned with an archbishop ' s crown , stands ostentatiously opposite to the chancel . The sermon is read , and lasts very long . The most wearisome part , however , both before and after it , is the endless repetition of antiquated and contradictory prayers , the burthen to which is occasionally , re-echoed in singing from the choir . These form a perfect course of English history . Henry the Eighth ' s ecclesiastical revolution , Elizabeth ' s
policy , and Cromwell ' s puritanical exaggerations , meet and shake hands ; while certain favourite phrases are repeated every minute , many of which are more characteristic of cringing slaves prostrate in the dust before an eastern tyrant , than of Christian freedom and dignity . The text was chosen , strangely enougn , from the story of the passage of the evil spirits into the herd of swine ; and after this had been discussed for an hour , the four priests w ^ re ordained . "—Vol . I . pp . 224—226 .
An Idea of Divine Worship . " I nnqst frankly confess it—I do not see how a reflecting man oaqi bfe edified "bv such a service . And vet how beautiful , how elevating , miirht the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 839, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/43/
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