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      $ The Say Papers . —A Paraphrase , $ C .

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      Charles R . [ Great Seal . ] Charles , by the grace of God , King of England , Scotland , France and lieland , Defender of the Faith ,- occ . To all Mayors , BaylifFs , Constables , and other our Officers and . Ministers , Civil and Military , whom it may concern , Greeting—In pursuance of our declaration of the 15 th of March , 167 ^ . We do hereby permit and license , Gy les Say , of the c ngr station nil persivasion , to be a Teacher of the Congregation allowed by us in a JZoome oy Roomes , in bis Howse hi Southampton , for the use of such as do not conform to the church of England , who arc of the perswasion commonly called Congregation a II . With further licence and permission to him the said Gvics Savy to teach in any place licensed and allowed by us according to our said declaration Given at our-Court at Whitehall , the second day of JS / Lay , in the 24 th year of our Reign , 167 a . By his Majesties Conmand , Sayy a 1 " eacher . ( Signed ) Arlington .

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      No . II , ' A Paraphrase on the Clergies Address to the King , upon occasion of his order in Council for reading his late declaration for liberty of Conscience in all Churches . \ JT his Satirical paper is printed on one side of a half sheet of small folio paper , < znd is here i opted 'verbatim . On the back is ivritten by JVlr , Say , life . On the back is tvritteu by Mr . Say , Dispensing Power , 3 . 688 . " See the Declaration in 16 71— 2 , ivith ^ the License to Giles Say , tS ^ c . J With Allowance .

      The Text . r Ihe Paraphrase . We are r \ ot averse We , who without to the publishing of any Bowels of tenthe declaration , for dcrness , have hitherivant if due tender- to cxercisedmany inness t ^ iva rds Dissc / i - human cruelties upters- ^ with relation to on Dissenters , obiifoom ive shall be serving- the favouraluilling to come to suchh \ c regard that the a temper as shall be Government has thought fir , nvbtn the now toward them , matter conies io be do promise , that we considered , tfnd set- will hereafter come . % led in Par Ham cut to such a temper in find Convocation . those matters , as shall be settled by ourselves in convocation , and by a Parliament pf our pwn Party .

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      No . III . Original Letters of Dr . Watts ^ . letters i > ir , 111 . To Mr , Samuel Say , ]\ fiinist&r at JLqzvc * sfoft , near Yarmouth . Letter I .

      My Dear ffriend , Dec . 1 $ , 170 & . Whether I have written to you since I received your ' s at Tunbridge , I know not ; for that , I now thank you , yet I ima gine that I have already thanked you , and that you are in my debt . I believe with you , that Mr . H ' s insisting somuch on the dutys ol morality , and pressing them upon the motive of Christ ' s example above and beyond all other motives , has been a reason why some persons have suspected him of Socinianizing , though he has severall timefv , in the pulpitt and in . converse ^ express * his sentiments very plainly opposite to Socinus in the great points of controversy . I wish he had always 4 one it *

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      But the declaration But though we being founded on such suppose the King ' s a dispensing poiuer ^ declaration for liberas may , at pleasure ty of Conscience to set aside all laivs tc- be founded "upoi $ clesiastical and civil , that arbitrary power appears to us illegal , which we have viand did so to the Par- gorously endeavourliament in 1672 . Avd ed to advance above it is a point of such all law , when ic great Consequence , that COtild . be Strained to ive cannot make our- the oppression of selves parties to it so Dissenters , and' to far as the reading of ' jthe establishment of it in the Church in th ^ oxxr greatness ; yet time of divine Service ^ finding" it to be now trill amount to * calculated for a more equal and impartial end , and destitute of those private considerations which have formerly animated us , we arc desirous in this conjuncture fas we were

      formerly in the year i 6 jz . ) that those . Laws for persecution , by -which our ecclesiastical Empire has been maintained , should retain their force ; and do by no means think fit to countenance the d ispens inor with them , upon that single motive of general good which ths declaration carries along - with it .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1809, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1732/page/8/