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

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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( *9 ) No. III. ff National Ajfembly, Augujl n, 178 9.. « The National Aflembly decrees, that, infuture, no mo- c< ney fhall be [cut to the Court of Rome,-, the Vicc-kga- “ tion of Avignon* or the Nunciature of Lucerne, zsfirjl fruits, « or under any other pretext whatever i but that application <f fhall be made to the Bifhops of the refpeftive diocefe., a for all provifions refpefting benefices and difpenfations, «* which (hall be granted without fee or reward, notwith- w franding any reverfionary provifoes. All the churches of France ought to enjoy the fame liberty. <c National Ajfembly, June 13, 1790. a The new Eifhop fhall not ad chefs himfelftothe Br- <f shop of Rome for any confirmation whatever; but fhall “ fimply write to him as Head of the Church, that he unites <c with him in the faith and communion thereof/* No. IV. cf National Ajfembly, September 22, 1789. u The French Government is monarchical. There is no c< authority in France fuperior to law ; the King governs cc by it, and it is only by virtue of law that he can exaff obedience <c National Ajfembly, September 24, 1789. li After a converfation, M. Freteau propofed the three “ following Articles, and they were highly applauded and “ adopted, as was the fourth, which was the Article of the. *c Committee. C( All power belongs eflentially to the nation, and flows u only from it. The legijlativepower refides exclufively in “ the National Ajfembly, whip fhall exercife it in the manner u following: *{ No aft of the legiflative body can be considered as law, ifit is not made by the reprefentatives of the nation, legally <q and freely chojen, and functioned by the King. “ The fupreme executive power refides in the King. The judicial power can neither be exercifed by the King npT by the legiflative body 5 but jujlice fhall be adminif- *c tered’

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