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ty , pre-eminence , or authority , ecclesiastical or spiritual , within this realm . And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief , in these words .
I , A , B . profess faith in God the Father , and in Jesus Christ his eternal Son , the true God , and in the holy Spirit , one God blessed for evermore , and do acknowledge the holy scriptures uf the Old and New Testament to be given b ^ divine inspiration .
Which declaration and subscription shall be made and entered of record , at the general quarter sessions of the peace , for the county , city , or place , where every such person shall then reside . And every such person that shall make and subscribe the two declarations and
profession aforesaid , being thereunto required , shall be exempt from all the pains and penalties of all and every the aforementioned statutes made against popish
recusants , or pro testant nonconformists , and also from the penalties of an act made in the 5 th year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth , entitled an act for the assurance
of the Queen ' s royal power , over all estates and subjects within her dominions , for or by reason uf such person ' s not taking , or refu - sing to take the oath mentioned in the said act . And also from the
penalties of an act made in the 13 th and 14 th years of the reign of King Charles the Second , entitled an act for preventing mischiefs that may arise , by certain persons called Quakers , refusing to take
lawful oaths , and enjoy all other the benefits , privileges , and advantages , under the like limitations , provisoes and conditions , which any other dissenters should or
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ought to enjoy , by virtue of this act . XIII . Provided always , and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid , that in case any person shall refuse to take the said oaths when tendered to them , which every justice of the peace is hereby empowered to do , such person shall not be admitted to make and
subscribe the two declarations aforesaid , though required . thereunto , either before any justice of the peace , or at the general or quarter sessions , before or after any conviction of popish recusancy , as
aforesaid , unless such person can , within thirty-one days after such , tender of the declaration to him , produce two sufficient protestant witnesses to testify upon oath , that they believe him to be a protestant dissenter , or a certificate
under the hands of four protestants who are conformable to thechurch . of England , or have taken the
oaths and subscribed the declaration abovenamed , and shall produce a certificate under the hand's and seals of six or more sufficient men , of the congregation to which
he belongs , owning him for one of them . XIV . Provided also , and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid , that until such certificate , under the hands of six of brs
congregation , as aforesaid , be produced , and two Protestant vvi - nesses come to attest his bein ^ a Protestant dissenter , or a certificate under tbe hands of four Protestants as aforesaid , be produced ,
the justice of peace shall , and hereby i » required , to take a recognizance , with two sureties , in the penal sum of fifty pounds , to be levied of his goods and chattels , lands and tenements , to the use
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Toleration Act * 329
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/49/
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