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Se&.VlII. 460 ACTS RELATING Partllh To THE COLONIES. 46m cal/II are of no ufe, no validity in this all ecclehaftieal catifes, which, like all our other courts, {honld have {at and aet- cafe. ed in the name, and by the authority of The religious principle can never fil/l/Mc' to any act, by which that plenitude the king. lt fhould have guarded thefe provifions by pains and penalties clearly exprefl‘ed, and eaiiy to he inflic‘ted. As the of pow r is acknowledged to be circum- feribable. at}: now fiands, how is the Canadian to know what is the iiipz‘emacy to which he have force {tiflieient to bind a firm believer in the plenitnde of power in the z'/2~ o iIere then tie a& fliould have been more explicit; it lhould plainly have den is ftti)jc€t, or what are the penalties under which he is to fubmit to it ? He is to find premacy. it out, if he can, in the firft of Elizabeth, :1 fiatnte which is a repeal, or a revivor or on any pretence whatever: it {houll of no lefs than fixteen other fiatutes, which itfclf has been altered, and in part repeal- have ef'tabliihed courts for the decifion of ed by eight or ten later flatutes. fined What was meant by the king's fu- It {hould have prohibited all appeals to the court of Rome in any canfie " ever to the contrary." The member who brought in this oath mutt, one {hould think, have known, that whoever was {launch papilt enough to believe the pope has the power of difpenling with obedience to the oat/2, mutt believe too, that he had power enough to difpenfc with the Immuni- atz'gu. And it feems, therefore, injudicious in the A lla- tute, therefore, which we may venture to lay, not one Englifhman in a thoulhnd underfiands, which, therefore, it cannot be reaionahle to expect the Canadians {honld ever underfland. The celibacy of the Roman clergy is another point, in which the welfare of lesiflature, to let the Canadians fee, that it even fuppofed it pollible they {hould be capable of holding a tenet which would deltroy the. {anftion of all oaths. If, indeed, the fanflion of an oath be of that ufe it is generally l'uppofed to be, all the civil fociety is more deeply interefied than many nay at firl‘t light imagine. Men |
