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There is a small pair-phlet extracted from his 

 works, which bears a great resemblance to the pam- 

 phlets of the late Jursetal. The title of this pam- 

 phlet is, * Lawi, civil and ecclesiastical.' 



" In the papers of a certain lawyer are found these 

 notes, which, perhaps, merit some examination. That 

 no ecclesiastical law fhall ever have effect, except 

 it ihall have received an -e^prefs sanction from go- 

 vernment. It was by adhering to these principles 

 that Athens -and Rome avoided all relrgioas disputes. 



" These disputes belong to nations uncivilized, or ' 

 become so. 



" That the magistracy alone fliould have it in their 

 hands to permit, or prohibit labour, during holidays, 

 because it belongs not to a priest to prohibit a man 

 from cultivating the fields. 



" That -every thing respecting marriage fiiould 

 depend solely on the magistracy, and that the priests 

 fljoiild confine themselves tothe solemn function of 

 benediction. 



*' "That money given out at interest fliould be 

 purely the object of the civil law, because ^hat it 

 alone presides over commerce. 



" That ecclesiastics ftiould in every -case be sub- 

 jected to government, because they are subjects of 

 the state. He would have said at present, because 

 tbey are subject to the law. 



" That they never fhould have the disgraceful 

 impertinence of paying to a foreign priest, the first 

 revenues of those lands which have been consigned 

 ■ by xjitiiens to a priest, a fellow citizen. 



