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Jl He Marquis <Of Laxsdownk Rose To Move...
question whether _& ha Bill did _^ _not gfoi too far : he conceived that it Mi ; and he could net agree to _jfaas it stood . But in the principle _, _hv f & My _concurred , and _therefore thought it should go to a _Gointnittee _^ where it might probably be brought even into a _state to be approved by the noble and learned Lord ( Elfloi *} . He should have been desirous _that it should have come earlier ;
but % he reason why it Jiad not , was fair and obvious- and , at any rate ; they should be better prepared for consideration of the subject , next session , if it passed a Committee in the present . If it had come earlier , there would _nav _< e _beea _imore time ; but the discussion must do good . Even with the present discussion , they would come to the subject much better informed than they had been . ¦ _> ¦¦¦'
The Bishop of Chester . The Bill was allowed to be as important as it was novel in principle , Whatever relief had been contemplated and discussed _aa to Unitarians _^ he had never before understood that it was meant to be _applied to others . It affected deeply the discipline as well as the emoluments of the _Churph ; and he appealed to the House whether it was fit to bring on so
important a subject when so many of the bishops were absent , or leaving _^ town , for their important duties . The Bill , while it regarded the scruples of Dissenters , might also affect the scruples and feelings of the clergy _; and was it not proper that , their sentiments , or their petitions if they pleased , should be first heard ? He disavowed all wish to ' refuse to religious scruples in matters of doctrine , the relief to which thev were moat justly entitled /
Lord Calthoiipe contended that the Marquis of _Lanadowne had laid sufficient grounds for going , into a Committee . He confessed he looked to the agitation of these questions without the smallest fear . The more the rights ; and true interests of the Church were discussed and considered , the more , he was sure , it would appear deserving of the respect and affections of the
community . He could not conceive how the interests of religion , or of the Church , could call on them to compel conformity in opinions which the parties _coimderqd repugnant to reason or scripture . This argument applied certainly , as he thought , only to one class of the persons seeking relief , whom he considered as clearly distinguished from the rest . He did not feel
prepared to carry relief further than to them . He thought the _Unitarians stood singly before them , and that their case was different from that of all others , _Tfceir _Ejection arose ott a fundamental and essential _points In _tltfat character , ii * _* vUi « jh Parliament wa $ alone justified in interfering on the _sub- >
ject , ( in its parental character as guardmn of the moral rights and intefe _^ ta of the pepple _, ) it was called upon to _affprtl to scruples of conscience that relief which the _present _lasys denied . He confessed be regarded _withlapprehensiou and dislike , any further interference which would seem to militate _agajnat _Jhat _wl _^ aa _^ me supremacy _\ vhlch , fo _^ _Jltts int _& r _^ _ts of tlie Stet _^ # _wati _^ _^ _MkfkA _^ _^ _CfeujEp | iJ ; _. | nit he c _^ ilW _Wfforhtifo _y _^^ tb _^^ am before them' _e _^ _fe % i 1 _^ e _Church ; _^ t he _CQ _& _ty » o ? _forli _& tt ? _ffiving the Bill before OHM ? _^ _a _#$ _^ _t ' o _. ¦ _, ; ¦ * ¦ ¦ : _" : ¦ _•' ... ) < . - : : ¦ ¦ '• : , _rtf * m a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 12, 1823, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_12061823/page/17/
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