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judicatory , (\ Vfeieti admits not the mention of any thirfg that is new in any other science as well as divinity , nor the natural doubts or discourses which cannot but arise amongst learned men , ) the acuteness and vigour of that nation is
so totally decayed and their spirits broken , and inclinations diverted to more pernicious licences , that too many tof that class of men who should preserve , and improve knowledge , are upon the matter
become illiterate ; and the spirit and coutege , which was natural to that people , and made them as eminent for many . noble attempts and achievements as any other nation of the world , is much
degenerated and broken . // ts very probable , however , that since their pristine appetite of honour and glory is not like to be extinguished , they will at some time , when it shall please God to give them an active and enterprizing King , shake off their modern sloth and luxury ^ mid those . shackles with which the
faculties of their mind are restrained and imprisoned , as well as their bodies in perpetual danger and captivity : and they will then discern that the true safety and security of a Church and State consists in the wisdom ^ knowledge and virtue of a people ^ that can
discern and distinguish between truth and error , and suppress the one , or at least expel the poison of it ) by the power of the other ; supported by laws constituted upon the foundation of prudence andjustice % more than by a stupid resignation of the \ nderstanding to old'
dictates , and by a sottish affectation of i gnorance in those things which ar % the proper objects for the dis - quisition of the soul of man . " Religion and Policy . 8 vo . 1811 . u 373—374 .
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No . CVI . Conventicle , Conventicle means a meeting * house , and is so used by Blackstone ; but it signifies as much & meeting-house for Church-men a $
for DissentrrS . Latimer , in thfc title to one of his ssrmons before King Edward , calls the Chapel - Royal 4 * a meeting-place . " Literally , a Conventicle is a small meeting of persons ; in which sense , how many parish churches may bear the denomination ! To the assembled thousands of the
Tabernacle , Tottenham-Court-* ^^ Chapel , Spa Fields , Zion Chapel and Surry Chapel , it cannot be applied , except by ignorance and ! fol A ly . secondary sense of Conventi * cle is an unlawful meeting , in which
s , ense , a meeting of Peers for the sake of influencing a County election is a Conventicle ; a meeting of Country Justices for the sake ot suppressing an opposition newspaper is a Conventicle ; a meeting
of Staff Officers to address compliments to a Commander in Chief , degraded by the Legislature * is su Conventicle ; a meeting of Rural Esquires for deep gambling , is a Conventicle : but a meeting o ( Protestant Disssenters in a building
registered according to law , to hear a minister pray and preach * whor-is qualified according to law , is not a Conventicle , but an Established Church . To such a
meeting the term is never applied , but by such as have it in theit heait , though , thank God ! not in their power , to disperse" iU The u $ e of it is verbal intolerance ,
lingual but , happily , toothless perse * cution ; barking where the LaW prevents biting . So late as the 4 th century * Am «
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Oleanings . —Conventicle . . 43
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/43/
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