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THE principal dissenting denominations of Chris tians in the United Provinces, are the Roman Catholics, the Lutherans, the Remonstrants, or followers of James Arminius, the Anabaptists, the Collegiants, or Rhynsburgers, and Quakers, or Friends. The Roman Catholics are allowed liberty of conscience. They have in the cities, as well as the country, many churches and chapels, which being built in the form of ordinary houses, are also dwellings of their priests. In these chapels they perform their worship according to their peculiarities. They may not, however, build any chapel without the permission of the government. Nor is it lawful for them to form processions in public, with the consecrated host; and the priests may not appear in the VOL. III.-No. V. 2 I streets any where in the dress of their order, or any formal dress. In some places of Dutch Flanders, the host may be publicly carried in procession, once a year. In the year 1720, the Roman Catholics of Zevenbergen, a city in Holland, on the borders of Brabant, ventured, not only to bury their dead with drums and colours, but the priest had begun to build a stone church in place of the wooden barn, where they had before worshipped. But the supreme magistracy being informed of this, obliged the priest to demolish the building at his own expense, and erect a new wooden barn like the former. The Jesuits, according to repeated decrees, may not live in these provinces; yet they are suffered to remain here and there, by connivance. In the year 1730, the States of Holland passed an act consisting of several articles, of which the principal were the following, viz. That no Romish priest should officiate without permission from the burgomasters in the cities, and from bailiffs in the country -that no priests should be suffered thus to officiate, but those who were native born subjects of the state -that priests belonging to a religious order, monks and jesuits, should not officiate that priests must declare to the government, upon their word as priests, and confirm such a declaration by their sig. nature, that they reject the sentiment that the Pope may discharge subjects from the duty of obeying their magistrates-that they must teach the contrary of this sentiment to their people, and promise that they will not employ themselves, for money or the value of money, in any foreign cloisters, seminaries of learning, or churches-that no papal bulls, or any other ecclesiastical decrees of their church, shall be made known and published, before they have shown them to the proper civil officers. In the states of Brabant and Flanders, the members of this communion pay a yearly sum for the privilege of worshipping according to their rules, to the treasurers of the Reformed Churches respectively, where they reside. They who have the care of the catholic poor in the cities of Amsterdam, Haerlem, Hoorn, Delft, Rotterdam, and Medenblik, have the liberty of using for the benefit of said poor, all property which is devised to them for that purpose. The Roman Catholics are excluded from all public offices, excepting in the army, where they may hold any place, but that of field-marshal. In consequence of representations made from some of the barrier towns, and other frontier places, in 1738, it was decreed by the States General, that every military officer, who at the time of his appointment professed to belong to the Reformed Church, but afterwards embraced the catholic faith, or married a catholic wife, should forfeit his commission. The catholics in the United Provinces, are divided into those who reject the papal bull Unigenitus*, and those who receive it, or as they call themselves, Jansenists and Jesuits, of which the latter are by far the most numeroust. The difference between these two has arisen to such a height that they hold no christian communion with each other, nor attend mass, when not celebrated by a priest of their own sect. They give each other the name of Schismatics; but the Jansenists, the most moderate of thetwo, declare that they unwillingly withhold communion from the others. They consider themselves as members of the Catholic Church, and the Pope as *For an account of this bull, and of Jansenius, see Mosheim, Vol. v. p. 204-229. and Buck's Theological Dictionary, under the head Jansenius. † Mosheim states the Jansenists to be the most numerous. His translator, however, corrects his mistake. their visible ministerial head, and the chief bishop or pastor of the faithful upon earth. Yet they do not consider him entitled to a blind obedience, inasmuch as he is fallible, and his solemn decisions subject to the test of scripture, and the rules of the church. The Jesuits, on the other hand, consider these decisions of the pope as entitled to unqualified obedience, and therefore, do not commune with the Jansenists. The government have ever declined interfering in the disputes between these two parties, and exerting its authority to make the Jansenists obey the pope, though solicited by Roman Catholic powers, especially the Venetians. The answer they gave to the latter is worthy of being noticed. In all matters pertaining to worship and ecclesiastical discipline, they said, Conscience must be free, without the least violent restraint. Every person has a perfect right in religion, to choose or reject what he judges to promote, or hinder his salvation. We judge our religion to be the best, and we wish all our subjects embraced it but we will not attempt to force any one to do so. Every one professes that religion which he thinks best; provided he conducts himself as a good and faithful subject. On this footing we tolerate the Roman Catholics, without troubling ourselves about their particular differences. cannot exercise our authority, according to the unalterable laws of our commonwealth, to decide these differences. Much less can we suffer a foreign authority to be exerted, to oblige any one to forsake his own opinions, or blindly subject himself to him who calls himself supreme bishop. We are bound to defend the one and other party from persecution; and never can we consent that the Roman hierarchy should exercise an unlimited power in these states.' We In the seven United Provinces, there are three |