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    • MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR, The Christian ** s Survey of the Political World*
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      Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or, The Christian ** S Survey Of The Political World*

      MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christian ** s Survey of the Political World *

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      - Discussion is recommended as a great improver of the human mind ; and , if this is really the case , the last month has afforded ample matter , on which the men of fhis world may engage their

      thoughts . The subjects too , if they do not too much engross us , are of importance : and it is useful to all , whose concerns are involved in them , to have clear ideas of the points in agitation The Catholic Question and the hew

      restraints on the Toleration Act come home to those , who are not members of the Established Sect : and that sect , desirous of retaining pre-eminence , must , like Diotrephes , see with concern any attempt in the others to regain that equality , which belongs to all Christians . The commercial world is deeply interested in the East Inclia Question , in whose charter there will be some

      changes . The Bank has such posses * toioa of the circulating medium , that all classes turn their eyes with fear to the depreciation of its paper , and the consequences of its system , which is fixing its roots more deeply into the soil , and threatening very extensive ruin . The manufacturing part of the community has been employed on the Orders in

      Council , and we are sorry to add have been pressed besides by the disturbances which have taken place in various parts of the country ; and the general question of internal politics , which has en-§ aged the attention of the City of JLonon , has been prosecuted with great indiscretion at Manchester , where it has produced a disgraceful scene of riot and confusion .

      The Catholics have prepared a prodigious number of petitions * and present thcn > selves before parliament in a very different point of view , from what they have hitherto appeared in . The Protestants of Ireland are very generally united to them : and it comes new as it were from one , third of the ' United Kingdom , supplicating to be p&ced on

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      the footing of other subjects . Thejr have presented a petition to the Prince-Regent , which may be considered as the exposition of their principles ; and in this they disavow every obnoxious doctrine , relative to the civil power , which has been fastened upon them .

      The power of the Pope to deprive kings of their thrones and to absolve subjects of their oaths of allegiance , is particularly specified and as absolutely denied } and they declare themselves as much bound to keep their faith with heretics

      as with their own body , f hey enter too more into points of religion than might seem necessary , and in fact in the grand question which occasions all the difficulty they might use the words of their brethren of the Established Sect

      in one of its articles : •« The Church hath right and authority in matters of religion , " The difference between thft two sects is that the thirty nine articles of one have no authority but under an act of parliament , whereas the Romish sect believes , that its church , as they

      call it , may decree in matters of religion independently of the civil power . Here rests the whole difficulty : and if it were to be settled by half a dozen bishops of £ ach side , they would soon come to a conclusion , though we will not venture to say , that it would meet with the cordial assent of the laity of either party . To the true Christian the decision is

      very easy : for he acknowledges no master but Christ , to whose words he makes his appeal ; and a church is a voluntary association , from which the idea of dominion is excluded— That is exercised , ' saith our Lord and Saviour " among the Gentiles , but it shall not be so among you / 9

      In England scarcely any movement has been made on this important question . A petition against the Catholics from Oxford has been obtained in the University , but it speaks only the sense of a majority of the resident mailers or rather of tht

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/66/