. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. st care and vigilance to prevent thepropagation of Roman tenets among the people. All thiscaution had, no doubt, arisen from the repeated efforts of theRoman pontiffs and their missionaries to extend the Papalempire over the Greek churches, under the claim of unitingthe two communions. Peter abolished the office of Patriarch,putting
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. st care and vigilance to prevent thepropagation of Roman tenets among the people. All thiscaution had, no doubt, arisen from the repeated efforts of theRoman pontiffs and their missionaries to extend the Papalempire over the Greek churches, under the claim of unitingthe two communions. Peter abolished the office of Patriarch,putting himself at the head of the church, which, under him,was to be governed by a synod. Proposals for uniting the two communions have been madeby different popes, as Honorius III., Gregory IX., InnocentIV , Gregory XIII., and last of all, by the Academy of Sor-bonne in 1718; but the Russian sovereigns and the nationhave always remained firm and true to their religion; at thesame time, all religions, without exception, are tolerated inRussia. In the year 1581, in the reign of Czar John Vasike-vitz, Pope Gregory XIII. proposed to that sovereign that theLutheran clergy should be banished from Russia; but hewas answered, that in that country all nations have a free. R in Church. THE RUSSIAN MASS. 353 exercise of their religions; and now in Russia there areLutherans, Calvinists, Hernhutters, Armenians, Jews, Mo-hammedans, Pagans, Hindoos, Roman Catholics, and repre-sentatives of nearly every creed in Christendom. In her doctrines, the Russian Church agrees with theGreek Church; like her, she receives the seven sacramentsor mysteries ; allows no statues or graven images, but admitspictures and invocation of saints. Their Bible is translatedinto the Sclavonian language from the Greek Septuagint;but they never suffer it to be carried into church, for fear ofprofaning it by several passages that are to be met with inthe Old Testament. It is the New Testament only, and someparticular passage
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