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    feelings of just and enlightened 1 might be proposed calculated to tionable principles , Tbut having toleration . Without saying that > relieve the parties _complaining ¦ no difficulty in saying that none no measure on _UBobjecyet offered ,

    answered to that description , ) he could not help observing , that in what was asked in the way of toleration for them , he could see no toleraftioti shewn towards the metnbers of the Church . If a Protestant and : Catholic were to

    be married , no attention was to but he was to be taken from the accommodate the scruples of the _» - ¦ < The Bill did not bring forward . be given to the scruples of ( the Protestant ; rites and ceremonies of his own church to Catholic . This could not be . the specific _pretensums—he was willing to

    admit ) the Just claims—of those bodies who differed from the Church , but whom still they would and must consider as comprising most respectable characters . It sought to open the door to every kind of mischief . It pre _* tended to be founded generally on a concession to religious objections ; but was it intended that , in cases where these might lead to the denial of the very

    truths of Christianity , there was to be no line drawn > Were their Lordships to lend themselves to relieve any . thing that assumed the form of any sort of objection to the Church ? This Bill led to such consequences . It defined or described nothing . In their wish to meet the conscientious difficulties of persons dissenting from the Church , let them see where this Bill would lead .

    In every town and village these places of worship , these conventicles ( meaning to use the word in no invidious sense ) were opened . Their licenses wei * e easily got , and ought ( he would admit ) to be easily got ; but would their

    Lordships allow , as this Bill allowed , that every place which could be so registered for worship should be a place for solemnizing marriage ?—that not only every town and village , but every street should be full of _theto ; and that not merely for respectable and conscientious bodies of _Dissenters , but for

    every species of absurdity that Johanna Southcott , for Ranters , Jumpers , and all sorts of sects , nay , further , for all persons who in any way might or should hereafter decline conformity to the Church ? True 1 t might be said the Bill may be amended in a but lie did press on their consideration , whether a measure working might be devised ?—for thefollowers of Committee , _suchmiglity

    changes should be brought in at such a period of the session , whether they should set about the task of seeing whether it could be amended , or whetfaet it would not be wiser at an earlier period of an ensuing session , to introduce a Bill when there should be more time to give it proper consideration . There was another feature of the Bill which he could in no way reconcile to _hiooy _& elf .

    Under the notion of giving this toleration , and' feeling the _netfeiltty of attending to the revenues of the Church , there were provisions for _asking its ministers parties to these irregular marriages . He could never consent that

    the Church of England and its ministers should be made Instruments to such purposes _^ lie had rather she should lose the whole income proposed to be _seeuretMo her , _thaasubimtito _^ siicji a proposition , as t 6 make her a party to sanctum rise . acts of the , worst sets of _congregaticmlsts _* He _was _^ h _^ would

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 12, 1823, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_12061823/page/13/