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XAsstnters , declare * ourselves sceptics ; it is in--substance , that the congregation alluded W , called in the assistance of 3 divine , tjbt tfheif minister , who first read the Form of prayer put out by authority of his grace , the Archbishop of Canterbury , arid then a sermon of some bishop's on the accession of Queen Anne !
This is a hopeful beginning of conformity ; and if the Dissenters proceed in this way , we may safely undertake to guarantee them against future Riots /* The Jubilee was a royal Sunday ^ the hmgs ' day ; it 'was set apart for worshipping ( according to scriptural example ) the Lord and * the king . Hence , as was becofnirig , it was occupied with praises of . ' ' Sacred Majesty , High and Mighty . No theme came amiss tor the orators of
the day . Toleration to Protestant , intolerance to Catholic , Dissenters , was equally the ground of land and service . One dissenting clergyman , in the west , in a discourse nrst preached on tine 35 th of October to his own flock , and on the 5 th of November repeated to some of the good people of Exeter , expressed his abhorrence of Socinianisrn , and his
admiration of the king's wonderful clemency , who had , notwithstanding' the Bishop of London ' s sentence , continued , by an act of royal grace , the heretical Francis Stone in' his living . We heartily wish that that unfortunate clergyman had been furnished with so good a
reason for keeping the Jubilee . * The Dissenters of Harlow , " ( Essex ,
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UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION , SWANSEA .
Nov . 24 , 1809 . On the 16 th instant was held at Swansea , a district meeting of the friends of free inquiry and personal choice of religious sentiments , composed of Baptist and Poedobaptist ministers , all Unitarians , to communicate with each other , on measures to be pursued for restoring the worship of one God , as it is taught in the Holy Scriptures , among the
inhabitants of the Principality . * The meeting was held at the chapel of Mr . Jenkins , the General Baptist minister , in Swansea , and was conducted as fol-
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says 3 > ftr . B . £ lriwer , f one of them , ) ' « have been singularly distinguished on this occasion . The Essex Heraldy in giving an account of the Jubilee , as observed in the county , remarks as follows : —* Every sect and society vied with each other in cheering the hearts of their poor neighbours , except in one
solitary instance , viz . at Harlow , in which a number of very opulent Dissenters reside , all of whom refused subscribing to entertain their poor . * The writer of this partial account of the con * duct of the Dissenters at Harlow , " fcontinues Mr , F . ] « ' was unconscious of the honour he was conferring on them : they
glory in their conduct as consistent Britons . The writer very well knew that their refusal to join in the festivities and contributions of the day , did not proceed frorri a selfish principle that they had declared their intention of , making a subscription for the poor of the parish ,
in general on a future day : but they expressed their determination not to be dictated to ; they disdained 'to add to the general delusion , by celebrating a Jubilee at a period when the nation , by the general system pursued during the present reign , has been brought almost to the brink of ruin . Their conduct
has the approbation of their conscience ? , and we doubt not the approbation of that God , who abhors flattering lips , and who is the approver and rewarder of the upright !"
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lows . On the afternoon of the 15 th , se * veral of the ministers arrived , and o in consequence of previous notice , met in the evening at the place of worship above named . The service w&s opened by prayer , reading the wqrd of Cod , and singing ; then a discourse was delivered in English by Mr . P . Charles , and another in Welsh by Mr . E . Uoyd , of Nottage , and the service was closed for
that day . On ' the next morning , the ministers met again at 11 o ' clock , and airer reading the Scriptures and singing , Mr .. W .
¦ * A Birmingham fair-one has , we observe ^ advertised in the public prints her intention to . publish a full account of all the J ubilee proceedings . We shall bQ happy if this article should supply her with any interesting facts . f See Pptificu ? R ? uU < w for November ; where , also , maybe seen , a Review o £ * cv « ral of the Tuttfc * Senuws ,
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Intelligences- ^ TTnitarian Association , Swansea . 6 ff 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 697, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1743/page/47/
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