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... peace . Amazed and perplexed , you revolve the matter in your mind , and on seeking for an explanation of the mystery , you only find it in causes which increase your dejection.- > Such is a faithful picture of the feelings it was 2.
... peace . Amazed and perplexed , you revolve the matter in your mind , and on seeking for an explanation of the mystery , you only find it in causes which increase your dejection.- > Such is a faithful picture of the feelings it was 2.
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Henry Gally Knight. Such is a faithful picture of the feelings it was my fate to experience on my return last autumn ... feeling in Belgium ; and , in my own country , I find the door persever- ingly closed . How can this be ? Is there ...
Henry Gally Knight. Such is a faithful picture of the feelings it was my fate to experience on my return last autumn ... feeling in Belgium ; and , in my own country , I find the door persever- ingly closed . How can this be ? Is there ...
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... feelings , and it was long before liberality was adopted as a system . Enlightened princes became illustrious inno- vators in the states within their own jurisdic- tion . The reforms introduced by Joseph II . established the doctrine of ...
... feelings , and it was long before liberality was adopted as a system . Enlightened princes became illustrious inno- vators in the states within their own jurisdic- tion . The reforms introduced by Joseph II . established the doctrine of ...
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... feelings . And why are they such ? Because the genius of freedom mixed with all the old German institutions . The mind never was subjected . Each individual government was temperate in its adminis- tration , and the Emperor was never ...
... feelings . And why are they such ? Because the genius of freedom mixed with all the old German institutions . The mind never was subjected . Each individual government was temperate in its adminis- tration , and the Emperor was never ...
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... feeling which prevails between the two , that , in many parts of Ger- many and Switzerland , the same church is fre- quented at the one hour by Catholics , and at another , by Protestants . There is another country , nearer home , the ...
... feeling which prevails between the two , that , in many parts of Ger- many and Switzerland , the same church is fre- quented at the one hour by Catholics , and at another , by Protestants . There is another country , nearer home , the ...
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Page 47 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by law within this Realm. And I do solemnly swear that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion or Protestant government in the United Kingdom.
Page 50 - I believe, that no act in itself unjust, immoral, or wicked, can ever be justified or excused by or under pretence or colour, that it was done either for the good of the church, or in obedience to any ecclesiastical power whatsoever.
Page 50 - Catholics, or in the doctrines of the Church of Rome, any law or principle which makes it lawful for Catholics to break their faith with heretics, or others of a different persuasion from themselves, in matters of religion, either in public or private concerns.
Page 53 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
Page 44 - March, 1789." (Signed in due form.) " UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN. " The Faculty of Divinity at Louvain, having been requested to give her opinion upon the questions above stated, does it with readiness ; but struck with astonishment that such questions should, at the end of this eighteenth century, be proposed to any learned body by inhabitants of a kingdom that glories in the talents and discernment of its natives.
Page 17 - The Concordat might, be abolished, and " the right would still remain. It is inherent in the French monarchs from "" the commencement of their monarchy. It is an essential appendage of " the crown; kings appoint because they are kings. The instant the '* church acquired a civil existence, its dignities became real magistracies, **" the disposal of which necessarily belongs to the sovereign, as they are a " delegated portion of the supreme power, and protected by the laws, and
Page 51 - God, are previous and indispensable requisites to establish a well-founded expectation of forgiveness ; and that any person who receives absolution without these previous requisites, so far from obtaining thereby any remission of his sins, incurs the additional guilt of violating a sacrament...
Page 51 - FORGIVE, they are forgiven. (John xx. 23.) But no actual sin can be forgiven at the mere will of any Pope, or any priest, or any person whomsoever, without a sincere sorrow for having offended God, and a firm resolution to avoid future guilt, and to atone for past transgressions.