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In two rebellions , the Dissenters , without the exqeptioji of a single individual , showed a steady attachment to the present government ; and they have , at all . times and seasons , ( and when such praise was by no means due
to the Church of England , ) proved themselves the steady friends of that mild , moderate , and tolerant race of kings , by which we have been governed for the last century . " pp , 163 , 4 . A .
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Sketch of English Protestant Per * secution * - —Letter I . Jan . 1 , 1812 . Sir , As I perceive that you have inserted ( vol . vi . p . 524 . ) my letter of May last * , at the close of which I proposed to offer you a Sketch of English Protestant Persecution , I shall now proceed to make a few
selections from the too ample ma . terials , which our history has af . forded , on that melancholy sub . jeoti One who should confine his enquiries to the New Testament , would little suspect that Christians had allowed themselves to assume
or encourage a civil controul over any man ' s religious , or even irreligious , profession . And while he heard re-echoed from every antipapal community , the Bible , the
Bible alone , is the religion of Protestants , ' * he might easily conclude that religious HWerty , among such Protestants , had furnished no materials for history ; oil the best possible account , because it had
As our correspondent ' * former letter nx&erjr proposed the series of communication * , which the present Letter-com mences , * re bave wtitled this article , Letter I . E » .
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been a right never disputed * But when this enquirer looked into the world , he would find ahistory even of the Protestant Church stained with the blood of persecutipn ^ and , like the prophet ' s' roll ^ " * ' written therein ^ lamentation and mouriiing and woe /* This progress ^ or rather decline , of Protestants , from the claim ^ of religious liberty to the practice of religious persecution , was well , described \ jy an anonymous author , sixty years ago . I quote the following passage from , " The Reflector , representing human affairs , as they are , and may be improved ' . " Svo . 1750 . * Two hundred years ago , it
was orthodoxy in Christendom to have no religion , but a blind obedience to the arbitary constitutions and injunctions of the court of Rome , all enquiry being then looked upon as heresy or infidelity . But certain intrepid heroes arose
to demolish this , usurped authority , that oppressed and enslaved Europe , by power and craft . The foundation upon which they erected their battery was the right of enquiry ; and the duty . of every man to hear and examine before he believes
and judges . " The Romish clergy appealed to antiquity for tUe truth of their doctrine ; but were shown tkat false doctrines may be ancient , they preten . de . il , that religious dis putes had long since been deckled , after the exactett scrutiny ; but were answered , that nobody has
a right of determining fpr another , what the scripture delivers as article of faith ; and that whoever pretends to doit , puts himself in the place ? pf tbc scripture ,, fhey alleged the aqriptures were dark in many places , 00 that every « ne
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38 Sketch of English Protestant Persecution . —Letter J *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/38/
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