Remarkable extracts selected from a work printed in ... 1687 ... entitled The accomplishment of the Scripture prophecies, etc. : In which are pointed out ... many things analogous to the present great changes in France; particularly the fall of the Pope's authority; of tyranny; of the nunneries, etc. and of titles of honour ... To which are added, several Acts and Decrees of the National Assembly of France / [By E. May].

  • Pierre Jurieu
Date:
1793
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Credit: Remarkable extracts selected from a work printed in ... 1687 ... entitled The accomplishment of the Scripture prophecies, etc. : In which are pointed out ... many things analogous to the present great changes in France; particularly the fall of the Pope's authority; of tyranny; of the nunneries, etc. and of titles of honour ... To which are added, several Acts and Decrees of the National Assembly of France / [By E. May]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cc No perfon is to be moleftcd for his opinions, not even *c for his religions ones, provided his manifefting them, docs not trouble the public order eftablifhed by law*.'* No. II. National AJTembly, Avguft it, 1780. <c Tytbes of allforts, and competitions paid in lieu of them, cc under wbatfoever denomination they mav be. known or *c collected, poffefled by the fecular or regular Clergy, by 4C perfon? holding benefices held or fet apart for the main- Cf tenance of churches, by any fpecies of Mortmain, by the cc Order ofMalta, and other religious and military orders, <f as alfo thofe that have palled into the hands of lay pro- (t prietors are abelifhed.” <{ National AJfembly, November 1789. €< The National Affembly declares. That all the goods cc of the church are at the difpofal of the nation, charged only <( with providing, in a fuitable manner, for the expence cf “ divine worfhip, the maintenance of its minifters, and the (e relief of the poor, under the infpedtion and according to <c the inftru&ions of the provinces. €t That in thedifpofition to be made f>r the maintenance “ of the miniders of religion, every vicar fhall he fecured in w a flipend, not lefs than 1200 livresf a year, bcfidcs a *• houi'e and garden. <c National AJfemlly, March 17, 1790. <c The order of the day brought on the further difcufTion €< of the plan of the municipality of Paris, relative to the tf fale of church lands ; and after feveral Members had u delivered their fentiments on the lubject, the Affemblv u decreed the following Article; <c That tire de^icfne and eccieuafUcal eftates, of which a ft fale had been ordered by a Decree ot the 19th of Decem- <f ber laft, to the extent off our hundred ?nilkcn$£, fhall be €C immediately fold and alienated by the municipality ot <c Paris, and by the other municipalities of the kingdom* €% to thofe who wifh to make a purchafe thereof.” # Thii Dtereewa* pafTed three dayi ifter the other, + Equi^i* ftcrknjC ^ Jtyial to 1$, 666, 6661. i$9, -ad. flcrlinj.
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