The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-10-23
Translated for the Federal Republican

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Translated for the Federal Republican,.
THE ARCHBIsHoPs AND BISHOPS IN
IRELAND.
TO THE MOST EMINENT AND REVEREND
BISHOPS, PRESBYTERS, DEACoEs
CARDINALS OF THE HOLY Re-
MAN CHURCH.;
TO THE MOST INDUSTRIOUS AND REyE
REND PATRIARCHs, ARCHBIsHoPs,
BISHOPS q APOSTOLIC Wears
7:RoUGHoUT 7HE WORLD,
HEALTH.
THAT in recent and unexpected calsmi
ty we seek for new remedies, and that in
determining upon them we appeal to the
faith and aid Of all, we must be justified in
your opinion, either by the cruelty of the
times itself, or certainly by that charity of
Christ, which impels us. For now &c the time
is, that Judgment should begin at the house
OF God. "Q. Peter 4. I'D We must therefore
listen to the words of God and of our Lord
concerning the distant times of those, who are
his own; "When you shall see the abomina
ton OF desolatioh, standing in the holy place,
then let those, who are in Judea. fly to the
mountains. But pray that yodr fight may
not be IN the winter or on the Sabbath If
therefore they shall say unto you, Behold
Christ J IS in the desert, do not go out be-
hold he rs IN he closet, do not believe il 4"
Matt ky. Is. Is, 20, Is, 26.) Here
he warns his disciples of the necessity of a
removal for while, not from the faith and
expectation of salvation, but from the
earthly dwellings of the believers & from the
holy temple itself, until the Judgments of the
Lord may be fulfilled that they were to
pray earnestly, that neither the established
laws OF the times nor of the religions NAV
shut the road TO flight and safety and that
after our good master and shepherd is
snatched away from our sight, we may not
thenceforward assume his authority, by
which all things are exposed to vain error
and foul receptions This oracle of the
highest preceptor is extended even to these
times. For we also have temple, which
cannot be violated by the impous in O which
the High Priest Jesus, the author of our
priesthood, hath entered, in his blood of the
eternal testament. We have also earthly
seats, associated to and images of those holy
ones we have also laws, by which the
whole commonwealth Of Christians is bound,
OF which laws, the first and highest is this,
that we should be one in faith sacraments
and charity.
THAT Christ might manifest fhis unity.
You recognize the words of Cyprian the Mar
tyr Ode Unit. Eccl.) he hath constituted one
see, and offoinfed the origin If unity BIZ his
aufh7rfy so Mat he 7oho deserts the see
IF Peter, uiiOn 4vhich me Church is found
ed. is nor Tuithin Me Church bur he qoho
docs NOT hold The Unity ofhe Church, han
no Ja'h. This unity, for which our Lord
at bis departure prayed with the piety of
son, and obtained it by the majesty of an
only bcgotten one, neither the wickedness of
men, nor the power of warfare, nor the com.
mands of Kings are sufficient to dissolve
the son OF God himself having established it
to remain unhurt by any of the casualties of
the world, when he said--I ieave heaee I'm
10 you, give yon my heace not as the
lgorfd gives, IgfOe unto you John IN. ar
They therefore, who so far Cypress this chief
Jrgan OF unity in Christ, that it cannot ex.
ert ITSELF, either freely or without deception,
lndeaYor % abolish not human laws & rights !