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    you , and which may be retained without hazard to the soul ; but we punish our subjects , because they are heretics , and refuse obedience to the Church , out of the pale of which there

    can be no salvation . " Besides , these foreign Protestants did not believe in the Divine right of the Episcopal form of Church Government , or

    that Ordination by a Bishop was previously needful to constitute the ministerial character , to validate its important functions , and to render them acceptable in the sight of God . They would therefore be looked upon with an unfavourable eye by the Orthodox divines in those days . And indeed it appears from the life of Laud , that this more than half-popish prelate the to

    had , many years before ^ persuaded royal martyr issue orders to his agents and military officers in foreign parts ^ to consider themselves as a separate , distinct body , from the Protestants in the countries they happened to reside in , and to hold little or no connexion of a religious kind with them . On the other hand ^ great pains were taken by Laud to conciliate the

    Papists , to prove the little difference which subsisted between the two established churches , and how easily these differences might be adjusted . Nor has this charitable , sentiment ever been long overlooked or abandoned by the high church Clergy That truly Protestant Aphorism , " the Papist is better than the 5

    Presbyterian , ' is handed down by them from generation to generation ; with more ardour perhaps at some period than others ; but from the day when it was first happily invented , it has never been totally out of fashion , except at the Revolution , the Accession and the two Rebellions in Scotland .

    Mr * R . gives a distant , but not very unintelligible hint , " why an act of such importance to the community , and so gratifying to every lover of mankind , was not communicated to a British public through the usual channel of the newspapers . " la

    another part of his excellent letter , he has pretty clearly displayed one of those numerous sources from whence a spirit of jealousy , suspicion and intolerance has been with profligate industry disseminated among our credulous deluded countrymen ; at a time too , when unanimity was of unexampled

    consequence and necessity . We know that similar practices are adopted by our enemies ^ and by these , combined with other nefarious means , two great nations who , by the advantage of their respective situations , together with their superior knowledge in arts , manufactures and commerce , might become blessings to the whole world , are exasperated against each other al * most beyond the hopes or possibility of reconciliation ! ! Your ' s , A Friend to Religious and Civil Liberty .

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    182 Oliver Cromwell and the Waldensts *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/14/