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The Providence Journal, And Town And Country Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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A French paper praises the English clergy for their hospitality and generosity towards exiled French Catholic clergy, including Oxford University's printing and distribution of Latin New Testaments. It contrasts this with historical anti-Catholic sentiments in England and notes evolving English religious practices with pomp and imagery.
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From a French Paper.
The Clergy of England are well informed,
hospitable and generous; they love their country, and are a powerful support to the laws.
Notwithstanding the difference of opinions,
they received the French Clergy with a truly christian charity. The University of Oxford
caused an edition of the New Testament
in Latin, according to the Roman version, to
be printed at its own expence, and distributed
among these poor men, with this inscription--
" For the use of the Catholic Clergy exiled for religion."
Nothing can be more delicate or
more affecting; it is, indeed, a noble sight for
philosophy to behold, at the end of the eighteenth
century, the Clergy of the Church of
England offer a hospitable reception to Popish
Priests, permitting the public exercise of their
worship. and even the establishment of some
religious societies. How strange are the vicissitudes
of human affairs! The cry of a
Pope! a Pope! caused a revolution in the
time of Charles l. and James II. lost his crown
by being attached to the Catholic Religion.
Those who are frightened by the title of a religion
alone, are ignorant of the human mind;
they always behold that religion such as it
was in the ages of fanaticism and barbarity,
without reflecting that like every other institution,
it assumes the character of the age
through which it passes.
The English display great pomp in their religious
festivals. They even begin to ornament
their temples with pictures. They have
at length begun to perceive that a religion
without worship is but the dream of a cold
enthusiast ; and that the imagination of man
is a faculty which should be nourished as well
as his reason.
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oxford university printed and distributed latin new testaments to exiled french catholic clergy with inscription 'for the use of the catholic clergy exiled for religion'; english permitted public exercise of catholic worship and establishment of religious societies.
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The English clergy received exiled French Catholic clergy with Christian charity despite differences in opinion. The University of Oxford printed an edition of the New Testament in Latin according to the Roman version at its own expense and distributed it among them. This hospitality is contrasted with historical events where fear of Popes led to revolutions under Charles I and loss of crown for James II due to attachment to Catholicism. The English display pomp in religious festivals and begin to ornament temples with pictures, recognizing the need for worship to nourish imagination.