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    the ritual in his hand , declares to the two persons he has just united , that their marriage is indissoluble ; notwithstanding , the bond of marriage is very easily broken in Sweden : either of the parties may be remarried by the same minister ; and this contradiction is considered but as a slight deviation from principle .

    The efforts of the Lutheran doctors to refute Socinianism sufficiently prove that that impious doctrine has many adherents in Sweden . But , according to the principles of the Reformation , nothing can be weaker than the arguments made use of to convince the

    Socinians . They are accused of arbitrarily interpreting-, and of wresting the sense of Scripture texts , in opposition to the opinion of ages . The Socinians are at no loss for an answer . The sermons of the preachers seldoig treat of doctrinal points ; indeed it may

    be said , that they are quite excluded from them as dry and useless , as the Archbishop of Upsal , recently deceased , has expressed himself . Morality alone is preached , and even of morality only certain points . That virtue principally is praised which

    leads men to acts of beneficence , of public and private utility . They connect every idea with happiness in the present life , as the ultimate object . Vice and corruption have little to fear from the thunders of the pulpit . Besides the churches , which all belong to the Lutherans , there are at

    Stockholm , chapels for the Moravian Brethren , or Hernhuters , for the Calvinists or Reformedt for the members of the Russian Greek church , and for the Catholics , and a synagogue for the

    Jews . It is natural to expect , that Swedebborgians also should be found there ; but they have no place of assembly . Swedenborg is less known in his own country than in England .

    Although the Hernhutershave only one chapel , they are very numerous . Amongst them are found the greater part of the Lutheran ministers , who devotedly attach themselves to the faith of the United Brethren , Their worship consist in harmonious singing and moral discourses . The name of

    Pietists ha $ be ^ n given them . Their language ? \ fcn ^ ath es gentleness ; and tiieir c&totxij&is in Swedish called Sirops JS ^ fr ;^^) a Church of Syrup- It is of t ^> -jyiiitherari profession * This . 1 ' T V

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    church has latterly acquired tnucB celebrity grace the book , entitled t Ex plication de VApocalypse , by Jung , has become popular in Sweden . Gustavus IV ., by consulting this German author , considerably increased his reputation . His book ,

    translated into the Swedish language , printed by the authority of the consistories , sought after at the court and in the metropolis , declares that the true religion is not the Lutheran * but that of the United Brethren , and that some time hence all sects will be united to

    them . The author was , notwithstanding , a Lutheran . In this work he states , that there are many excellent Christians amongst the Catholics ; he mentions some of them , in which number he has included

    Fenelon ; but he represents Pius VI . as Antichrist , and the last of the popes , and regrets that this old man was not assassinated rather than Louis XVI . This is a sample of his morality . The captivity of Pius V 1 L has sustained the reputation of this work in Sweden ; which predicts the end of the world

    in 1836 at the latest . The Reformed , or Calvinists , are known at Stockholm by the name of the French and Dutch Reformed . They have two chapels , one for each nation . They were destitute of ministers for twelve years ; and to Catteau , the last of the French ministers , they have had no successor . The German and Dutch Reformed

    have lately met with a minister . During this vacancy , a German Lutheran minister , named Hachenburg , who is just dead , gave his services to the Reformed , administered the sacrament to them , and preached in the Dutch chapel . Those belonging to the French chapel had also recourse to him . The number of the Reformed

    is small : their religion was not at firat tolerated in Sweden , though in the course of time it was endowed with peculiar privileges . Now the tendency of the Lutherans towards the Reformed is so great , that they seem confounded with them . The

    Russians have a chapel , which is rather that of the embassy than of the community at large , and they have a pope , who is maintained by their government . At Stockholm only the Jews are permitted' to have a synagogue . There are in that city twelve or fifteen Jewish families . They are

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    5 W Remarks concerning the Present State of Religions Sects in Sweden *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 542, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/18/