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woifld resist , or they would ^ be , crushed ] by it . Mr , Diocon declared- that the establishment was a most tender mother to all descriptions ot pebple , and he would defy any one to shew that it had ever evinced a persecuting' spirit . The
¦ speaker forgot the persons burned in the reigns of Edward the Sixh , condemned to the stake in the reign of Q . ueen Elizabeth , burned in the reign of James the First , and the punishments inflicted on nonconformists in the rcgns of Charles I . and II Mr . Blundell was
astonished at the ineensibUity of the clergy of the establishment to the education of the p ) or , anddidnotknowof any fchinsj done by the ne * v society , except raising subscriptions-: whereas Lancaster had educated thirty thousand
children , before he applied for assistance . Mr . Pear sail read a letter from Newport stating that the children of Dissenters at the Belliun sch ool there , were not perm . t cd to accompany their parents to the places of religious worship o . f their own persuasion yllderman Birch . e > -
pressed his surprise at ihe question ; What was the national religion ? The constitution of the country had inter-Woven ihe established see * with tru . state , not that the sect should be political , but that ihe state should be religious . The
court therefore ought not to » assist in the education of the poor of any sect , except that which is established by law , and he begged the members of tha court to consider , that they sa ib the corporation as members of the established sect .
Mr Waithman considered the nc v * plan to have originated in no other motive than opposition to Lancaster , and the cry of the church being in danger , was raised to assist this grand cause If they succeeded in beating down Joseph X-anoasr . tr , he did not know , what would
become of the funds ; but he believed the country would hear little more about tne National Soc ety . Churchmen saw no d nger in universal ignorance but were quite alarmed at any education , except in iheir own religious doctrines . Every man : in the community was entitled to his fair chance of iisin ^ bv his
raent , but this chance was withheld , \ i the i : rsi rudiments of education were denied to him . The number of Disaentcis "was owing 10 the carelessness of the clergy , for , who would risk an ague in a cold church ,. to be set asleep by the drowsy discourse of a preacher without jmergy or talem ? Preachers of energy
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and talent were generally excluded £ $ orn the regul r churches , another fore ^ people went elsewheretohear better preaching and if the careless and slovenly conduct of the ministers of the esiabl . shed sect in ^ rc 9 ed the number of EJj . 4 s enters , they had no right to attac * . men for
disfcnring . N On taking the votts , the numbers were for granting five hundred pounds to the Anti-national Society , forty seven , against the rrant fifty-thi .-e , and it mu « t afford satisfac ion to every liberal mind , that the new scheme of
illiberally h ? s beerr < hus defeated . The established seel has met with more defeats . The victory obtained at Cambridge bv the Bible Society , has been followed up by imilar triumphs in other places Meetings have been called
and numerously attended at Huntingdon , Buckingh m . Bedford , Hertford , —at v hicb ihe principal nobility and gentry of . 'he counties attended , and in all the same sp rit of liberality was manifes ed . Au iliary Bible Societies wtre founded and he members of the
different sects , whether established or not , concurred in he grea : de > L-. n of promoting , to the utm st , of their power , the diffus on of the scriptures . We rejo . ee in seeing ihe hearty concurrence of all parties in this holy object , and tru ^ t that it will produce t *~ e b ^ neniial
consequence of love to each o : her , and a firm uii'on in the principles of the religion of love . Bu ihe Uissenrers have pai . se of alarm from another quar-er , and the Toleration Act will be ot lit ' . e use t > t cm . if the
interpretation that has een gencia ly acted upon tor the la t hund ' ed years , should be sup r : edcd by one , which af er th 9 generation , will leave them entirely without miiiister- * . It is novv advanced hat a miri'ster , prc iously to the receiving of his licence , should ha \ c icd bv icd
a certificate »»^ certain members a certificate »»^ by certain members of a con-r gurion , si . nifymg < har he is their appioved minister . but a cord ng to the sysr ^ m of Dissenters , and a very proper sy-teni it is , a man i iu > t settled a ni nister t il he ip-as \ fen approved of
by the conjj'C . at on . Ho \ then can the congregation approve " . t > f him uritrss th-y hear h m and i thev sign this approbAtfou . the . hea r w tness , th 1 he has preached witloata iccncc . tiat ; s , has offended the law , on wh . ch cliesc * li . ence *
arc founded . 1 'he q . cs ion will i > c argued in this and other cases and judgment given next term , at which tii *\ e
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State of Public Affairs . 133
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/69/
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