Report from the Select Committee: Appointed to Report the Nature and Substance of the Laws and Ordinances Existing in Foreign States, Respecting the Regulation of Their Roman Catholic Subjects, in Ecclesiastical Matters, and Their Intercourse with the See of Rome, Or Any Other Foreign Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction : with an Appendix ... |
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Page 475 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 324 - Don Carlos por la gracia de Dios Rey de Castilla de Leon de Aragon de las dos Sicilias de Jerusalen de Navarra de Granada de Toledo de Valencia de Galicia de Mallorca...
Page 475 - further Security of His Majesty's Person and Govern"ment and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of "the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for ex"tinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales "and his open and secret Abettors...
Page 475 - His Britannic Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada. He will consequently give the most effectual orders that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Page 475 - An Act for altering the oath of abjuration and the assurance and for amending so much of an Act of the seventh year of her late Majesty Queen Anne intituled " An Act for the improvement of the Union of the two Kingdoms...
Page 477 - ... provisions during their natural lives. That all Missionaries amongst the Indians, whether established under the authority of, or appointed by the Jesuits, or by any other ecclesiastical authority of the Romish Church, be withdrawn by degrees, and at such times and in such manner, as shall be satisfactory to the said Indians, and consistent with the public safety, and Protestant Missionaries appointed in their places. That all ecclesiastical persons whatsoever of the Church of Rome, be inhibited...
Page 424 - We should deem ourselves guilty of a great crime towards God, if, amidst these dangers of the Christian republic, we neglected the aids which the special providence of God has put at our disposal ; and if, placed in the bark of Peter, tossed and assailed by continual storms, we refused to employ THE VIGOROUS AND EXPERIENCED ROWERS who volunteer their services, in order to break the waves of a sea which threaten every moment shipwreck and death.
Page 157 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, and to build, and to plant.
Page 414 - ... all sorts in Europe, Africa, and America, to the great loss of souls, and great scandal of the people; as likewise concerning the meaning and practice of certain idolatrous ceremonies adopted in certain places in contempt of those...
Page 476 - ... that it is a toleration of the free exercise of the religion of the Church of Rome only, to which they are entitled, but not to the powers and privileges of it, as an established Church, for that is a preference, which belongs only to the Protestant Church of England.
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| Title | Report from the Select Committee: Appointed to Report the Nature and Substance of the Laws and Ordinances Existing in Foreign States, Respecting the Regulation of Their Roman Catholic Subjects, in Ecclesiastical Matters, and Their Intercourse with the See of Rome, Or Any Other Foreign ... Volume 501 of [Parliament. 1816. H. of C. Repts. and papers] |
| Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Regulation of Roman Catholics in Foreign States |
| Publisher | The Committee, 1816 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Jan 31, 2008 |
| Length | 544 pages |
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