Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

The Protestants of Germany, both Calvinists and Lutherans, till of late, maintained against each other a spirit of intolerance, replete with as much acrimony and virulence, as they formerly experienced from the Papists; but now, whether the liberal temper displayed by the Emperor has taught more enlarged sentiments, or whether the true light of the Gospel begins to be more clearly diffused, and men see that the great principle of Christianity is a continued series of kindness to all their fellow-creatures: certain it is, that the Lutherans, who are the established church in the territory of the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, have, within these few months, offered the use of their churches to the Calvinists: and the Calvinists, who are the ruling sect in the dominions of the Duke of Brunswick, have offered to accommodate, with their churches and sacramental plate, their fellow-subjects of the Lutheran persuasion. At Cologne, where the Romish religion prevails, a Protestant clergyman dared not to show his face; but now, if a Protestant is taken ill, and desires to be attended by a minister of his own faith, the minister is immediately sent for, and treated with the utmost respect.