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      No . LXXVH , Excellent Heretical Maxims . " 1 he Donatists were sturdy heretics . There was no reclaiming by force a people , who held that death in a good cause was not an evil but a benefit .

      The Emperor Constans , tired , it should seem , of persecuting such obstinate fQlk , sent two persons of rank into Africa to endeavour to conciliate them , and at the same time to distribute alms to

      their poor * As little disposed , however , to value the emperor ' s kjpdness as to fear bis vengeance , they repulsed Jiis ambassadors , with , Quid est imperatori cum ecchsia ? What has thu em-VRKOR , TO DO WITH THE CIIUItCH ?

      It was alsousual with them to say , Quid Christianis cum regibus , aut quid episcopis cum palatio ? What have Christians TO DO WITH KINGS , OR WHAT HAVE BISHOPS TO DO AT COURT ?

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      No . iLxxyni . A Triumphant Dying Experience * Father Le Tellier , chancellor of France , under Lewis the 14 th , perceiving the approach of death , obtained of the king , by ? frequent importunities , that the grand affair . THE REVOCATION OF THE

      Edict of N-an t ^ . should-be put off no longer ; but t ^ t he might have the honour to put the seal ta it before he expired . He was indulged , ^ ^ iGt was prepared , the " seal was put jto it Oct . 18 , 1 ( 585 , and , four days after , it was registered in the chamber of

      vacations . This superannuated old simpe r was so infatuated as to adopt Simeon ' s words , whej * he sealed the instrument . It wp , s the last act , of his chancellorship , and Ke die < j soou after with these

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      words in his mouth , I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever . His panegyrist say ' s ., 4 . he went on singing the rest of the psalm when he sot to keave 7 iAr * 1 am not sure

      of that , ( says lloafert Robinson , ) I only know that all the bishops attended his funeral in their ha * bits , and Archbishop Flecliier , a very good man , when he was not ordered to be wicked , preached the funeral oration , said all the

      fine things he could invent , and declared that to be a pious edict , a triumph of religion , a glorious monument of the piety of the king , whrcli condemned two millions of rational beings to ruin

      for exercising their own reason , m matters of religion , and did so in direct violation of oaths and public instruments ^ and all the tics that usually bind mankind *

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      No . LXXIX . Result of Catvinistic Tuition . A lady in this kingdom ( Scotland ) some ti me ago , having a negro servant , was charitable enough to desire he might be

      instructed in the Christian religion ; for this purpose , she put him under the care of a teacher , who , according to custom , furnished him with catechisms , commented upon them , and made a

      favourable report of the quickness of his understanding . This the pious lady , in tlxe joy of her heart for savjjpga soul , mentioned to a clergyman of her acquaintance , adding her request- that he would

      examine her servant . With , this he readily complied , and asked such simple questions as these .-: Who was the author of the Christian rejigion f " Where Jesus Christ came from ?¦ " and " What he came to do in the world i" to none *> f

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      354 Gleanings *

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/34/