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seifence ; yet this Bill goes to meet the case of objectors to discipline , and states the parties to entertain ' conscientious objections to the daetririe-, and discipline of the Church / Confining it to matters of doctrine , I think that relief should be granted , and that some plan- may be devised ,. which -may be free from some of the objectipns which apply to the present Bill . "
The Bishop of Worcester conceded that there was just ground of objection , on the part of those who are required at present to Join in a service that implies a confession of faith repugnant to , their conscientious feelings and opinions . He objected to any man being called upon , on such an occasion , to profess what on no other occasion he was in any way called on to admit * He
thought some remedy ought to be applied ; the question was , What , should be the relief ? The Bill was in its present state very imperfect , but it might be altered to meet their views in a Committee . As to the suggestion of Lord Liverpool , he differed from the opinion expressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury . An omission or abridgement of the service did not appear ^ him to be , properly speaking , an alteration . Did not they all know that the service was every day in practice abridged ?
Lord RedesdaIiE . The principle of the Bill was , in fact , to repeal the Act of the present session , while it professed not to do so . It was nothing more nor less than to convert all places licensed under the Toleration Act into Gretna Greens , where persons of p . 11 persuasions might go and make irregular marriages : two persons of the Established Church might be married Under it , if they , wished to evade the usual forms . This Bill Was totally different , in principle from the exception of Jews and Quakers in Lord
Hardwicke ' s Act . They were two known denominations 5 their ceremonies , creeds , and customs , were . known , and the exception only applied to parties being so bond , fide , and , to bring them within it , it must be proved that they were really Jews or Quakers . If it was enacted , that , in the case of a marriage between two Catholics or Dissenters , they might marry iu their own cliurch , the principle would be followed ; but , when it was allowed , to one of the parties , the principle was deserted . This Bill was nothing more nor . Ie 3 s than the repeal of an Act which it pretended not-to- . repeal ..- It , allowed ^ ny person to make irregular marriages , as easily a & if at : Gretna Green .
Marriages of Jews and Quakers , too , were not registered in the parish book , as was proposed , by this Rill : there again , the principle of tfceir case was deserted . The BjUl ought to be founded solely on . that principle , if it ; was « pugUt to establish it on the relief granted id that qa ^ e .
¦ '' . - . ..... . t . .... * . * . * . ¦ LoirdHARRowBY thought the Bill would , require great amendment ^ but the principle wfes torelieye persons , who objected to the doctrines ; ol the Church of England , from the difficulty pfbeing compelled to gi ^ e tteirj assent to them in marriage . He agreed ; vri # *< the Marquislof JUaqadovvue ^ t ^ t . there wa * no ground for 4 he State's compelliug such a conformity ^ -Ifc mightfaef \ *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1714/page/56/
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