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question whether & ha Bill did not gfoi too far : he conceived that it Mi ; and he could net agree to p as it stood . But in the principle , hvfMy cfacurred , and therefore thought it should go to a Committee ^ where it might probably be brought even ifito t a state to be approved by the noble and learned Lord ( EWoi *} . He should h & ve been desirous that it should have come earlier ' :
but She reason why it had 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 woiiM have beea imore time ; but the discussion must do good . Even with the present discttssion ^ they would come to the subject much better informed than they bad 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 as 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 Church ; $ n < i 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 leavings 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 fii ; st heard ? He disavowed all wish to ' refuse to religious scruples in * matters of doctrine , the relief to which they were moat justly entitled /
Lord CA & THORPE 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 considered repugnant to reason or scripture . This argument applied certainly , ashe thought , only to one class of the persons seeking relief , whom ; he considered as clearly distinguished fvQta 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 . Their objection arose ott a fundamental and essential point . In that character , in which Parliament was alone justified in interfering on the
subject , ( in its parental character as guardian , of the moral rights and intefe $ ta of the people , ) it was called upon to afford to scruples of conscience that relief whi h the present laws denied . He confessed be regarded with apprehension flgnd dislike , any further ia ^ ferehce which would see m to militate ^ gajnat Jhat wh ^ lee ^ me supremacy \ vhlch for the int & r ^ 3 ts of tlie Stet ^ # ^«( T ve ^|^ % . -j ^ e ^ Gfe «^ | i ;; . | pit he Could not forbe ^ giving the BUI before tlMMi '? ^ # » B ^^ fc ' a / - ^ ; ¦ • ¦ ; ' - ¦ • • ¦) r . - : ¦ ¦ • : ,: ^>
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1714/page/57/
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