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_ CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING THE.
REE EXERCISE THEREOF. ARTs I
“YOR. 1Z.NO. : 18]
ROPISH PAGAN
THE. FICTION OF
A .
PROTESTANT HEATHEN.
aN A CONVERSATION WIXT A GENTLEMAN oF 1
TATES OF moLtann, nt DEIST BY PROFESSION, AND
a peor R OF HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY.
"Pally translated from the puter.
reece
Marlirit gestans virgo Martina coronam, ‘
Ejecto hine Martis numine, Templa tenet.
Mars hence expell’d ; Martina, martyr’d Maid
Claims now thé Worship, which to him was paid.
DR. ’CONYERS MIDDLETON'S Translution. Pago 169.
THUS CORRECTED .-
Mars hence expell'd ; Martina vi irgin, crown'd
jartyr, names now the Temple, cop has own'd.
Curistranus.
in hisown conce ros xxvi..
———
(Contin ine page 130.}
OF Dona or Pati Offerings.
Myrro.—* My next instance, Sir, of the Popish
paganism is, 3, the number of their donaria or votive
offerings hanging around the altars of their saints.
Where our author elie nothing to alledge from) ishing * ‘religion ‘and: altars;
scripture, nor al le from antiquity, but-what |
is purely THeathenish. i is Pores to.change his tone,
and to declare; that things innocent in themselves
cannot be rendered unlawful, for having been abus
. greeable t o God.
oa stiled agreeable’
afflictio our
: acknowledging “God's infinit goodness and mere!
_{mankind
CHARLESTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 32, 4829.
knoiicdgment of blessings received i is a practice a-
Ivo. What Sir! Can a pr ractice be stiled
agreeable to God, or called i innocent, Awhich i is a con.
fessed | copy or aganish anperstitio io’
# but a preci ought to be
0 Go ‘a a proved « estruc-
n of Paganish superstition ; a “confessed copy of
Tacos and Joshua’s devotion
—Can that practice ‘be stiled agreeable to
God “ which tends to weaken our dependence on
God, and to place it on those, who ‘are not Probably
in a condition, either to hear or to help us
Deist. —No; ; but that practice ought to be stiled
dependen ce on Goth and of having recourse to him
obligation of
ws
-
c
, and our
tinuation. of that cparity they had while
mortals, for us left behind: to work out
ur palration with fear and trembling.
e stiled agreeable
Phil, xi. 12
ansfers’ the honor due to.
God, to" the altars ‘oft departed morta’
DeErs ector, no; but tha! at practice ought
to be stiled agreeable to God, which; instead: of ban-
9 therm bon in the
er of all
possession of od; the sole
good ; which imprints a due
saints, acknowledgi ng in them no power of helping
s but by prayer, and fulfilling God’s
ic, “will ; which ‘teac! hes
om
ed by the Heathens ; and that-it cannot be
greeable to he true God, that those, who- believe
themselves to have received, favors from. him by the
prayers orhis saints, should make a public acknowl:
edgement of it.’
your double art of assimilation and
‘ou ‘cannot turn
Plato's « sys' a ree.
the christians thought of it. } /
seem to be of humor with gratitude to God at
present ; was his Britanic majesty to -call-you ov
tothe see of Canterbury, f say, on this condi-
tion you would, in perpetuam ret memoriam, gladly
erect ‘hima tatue,as a ive offering, alt
y speaking | is seri
a
“Go
, you: have proved all that “Shave Pagans
0 not Jove scourges, you: tell us.
ture, but the very word
Jent fit.of the spleen ; therefore when'hé is spari
take care-not to conclude, hastily all is gxined—i
intent may be, to try your ehav! in a fool? par
dise. “For example. in this resent case he. might
have sent you to Theodoret, who relates.the same
approved practice in his days: he might have bid
tii. where we find that Jacob set up |:
you rea
a stone for a "pillar, as a grateful memorial: of the|
apparition he was favored ¥ with, in the same place ;
which he callsa dreadful place and the -house of
oshua likewise, by God's order,’
tommanded twelve : stones to be fixed |:
a3 a memorial unto the children offlsra- |
of their passage through an.
re dye ou this, and concluded ;
Chap. iv.
el for ever,
antagonist might have to
that the devil, had he not known it before, m
have learned from scripture facts that a publica ac-
er even, must necessarily, be condemned by
pf but then they will draw an ugly con
° and if the prefac
is not sufficient to clear up your unertanding, rea
: ‘Chaps 24, 25, 26, 27. or you may c
eans by which w
in rogress. io ahappy eternity ; ;
and t therefore-to pray ourselves with-
out ceasing, and procure the prayers of our bre
aren! in heaven as. well ‘as of those on earth: : that
God may, have the honor and we the Profit of'so many
praye
Myr THO, ~ Sieh a worshi
Deist.—What worship, Doctor? 2 Sueh a worship
as [have described ?
ytu0.—No, Sir ; “that which Ihave described :
“ Such a a “worship, ‘Tsay, so far from
athol
Christian
h, xxiv.
e-
judiced men as eat and idotatrous, as ie wu
more evidently r to be, from our consi ider on
of the next article, their worship of imi
—-Doctor, there is nota papi nist Tam sure,
in ‘the four quarters of the world, that w will not con-
demn, and, to speak their own Jee anathema-
|tize.it, by bell, book and candle, rophane, idola-
trous, paganish, heathenish; and whatever you will:
3
soning, which is, that, the non they pay to
dge only duc to
S$ a creature; and
what is.this, but being an atheist ? Let me vio
you to con our, Catholic well over, a
in the words of the Royal pro-
alm xxxii, ‘phet : “ Be ye not as the horse, and
mule, which have .. no Unders tand-
ing.”
cuarrer VII.
. Worship of Images. Se.
Myrno.—* On this head, ¢ our Catho lic ‘pours out
all his rage against me.” You have taken notice of
t, Sir, Ido notdoubt. -
Derst. —Yes, Doctor, I have read him ; though 1
say he is master of Fmuch rage, if he has be:
fives to you: all! he
yTHo.—He “ charges me with slander and mis-
nreseiton, and notorious. untruths.’
have. charged their. whole
AMEND.*CON, UNITED STATES:
agreeable to God, that daily puts us in mind of our | the
own unworthiness ; of honoring |,
‘|those whom God has glorified, and begging the con-
“Anawer a fool according to Ieis folly, lest he be wise {
us to, neglect noj that
‘bei ing | innocent | and,
sequence out of |.
(ToT, NO. 303.
ancient heretics, and copy my arguments from the
apostate Julia
-Deist.—You have called the cross, “that i is, the
| banner of Christ, ei
munion; i in whic’
there are agreat
for their learning 3
try, the blackest o of erimes, and their whole priest
food with Geluding the multitude, and supporting
mpos'
your ndverary. whe
charges one man alone ‘with slander and misrepre-
sentation ; 3 + with being no better friend to. Christiani-
In
ler if his spouse must undergo the sam
but ‘this is an n arguinent that I must stand mut
‘Myruo.—By ‘this at least, our Catholic “hoe, in
what manage he would silence me if he had me un-
ve his *diecipling’
t.—He would scarce undertake to make
a Black white ; but he would teach you, that calm.
oy is a damaable sin, and the greater, ‘thé: more per. |
velled against, and the bla cker . the®
ine is oaths are charged ¥ with.
—** But f can easily forgive his sailing,
wll ed mys self out of his power ; and. rejoice
eve in a county, where he can use a li-
t ryhch P
a protestant. ”
Dest. —Doctor,. was. our republic to indulge the
Papists,, pr ior possessors, the sam
rest of our fellow wesubjects, it, would. only
Y)according -to the established Principles or ot refor-
overnment, by allowing
set of. people, | to Bet. accore ng ° princi-
ple, though the :judgm choice ;
u know we acknowledge 1 no 2 inflibiltg.—
Revenge and spite c: er be mistaken for virtues.
'u do the, Cathie Ihave always beard the «
whole circle o} atholic acquaintance,
few, speak with agreat deal of gratitude of the leni-
ty of the government in tolerating: to them a:share.of
at liberty every other subject, let him Rh or what
n-he pleases, claims a right to... an-
jon, they ld say: Was any
pass ‘his time very. ill,.
ment i 3 and any protestant might, without, being at
iting, by.a bare Presentation. of his
° | ens othe expose the impostor, an nd have him
punished. “They. would add ; that they do not doubt
=| pat your antagonist ‘freely forgives » you, not because
finds himself out of your power ; but because he
has learned the Lords prayer... ¢
“the ground. of all this clamor,
is, my ‘tenting their i image worship, as ido! latro
Deist.—I hope you do not count this a Pecaditlo,
i Id not
ivine
p,it is
r ig.
pra n image without. pay
Adoration, or that you'knew-of ho Ptheravorshi
robable Jour antago tvould hens pitied yo
norance. i But, ag itis, in pi outof
slander and. imrepresuntation he thought himself
obliged ‘to put you: in mind of your genteely behav.
ug does” Dr. ‘Conyers | Middleton copy Ais spl een a
gain: inst ‘Relies from the same ny from Eun and *
from Eunapius & pagan writer vt ‘the same one. ‘Se e St.
Deist.-—And
chureh with superstition and paganism.
ight ~My ook ¢
{to christianity than to popery ; ..that I imitate the Printed anno 15, from mt 368; part HI
—He says, “ that T am no better friend
rog. Naz. Orat. iii. T. I. p. 76,77. St. Jcrom, Lib. cont.
vi Hontina and Ra ius in auesion See'all this and .
more trie Church of Christ &e —