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    Mr . JSelshmh ' s Motes mi the Tolerittibn Act * 45 i

    * f the WH should be constructed with # U the latitude which the Dissenters could desire Th £ noble framer of the bill

    therefore Qnd the legislature which passed it stand acquitted of tfee charge of imposing the inconsistent conditions which are now required . But that the magistrates © f the present day under the shelter of

    the word impowered , are authorized by law to demand these conditions or any other which they may think expedient previously to their administering the required oaths cannot , I think , bfe justly

    denied . It is from this discretionary authority > which completely annuls the Toleration Act , that the nonconformists now justly , anxiousl y ^ and unanimously seek legislative relief .

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    The temporalities of the chtfreh can never be in danger , go long as they are protected by power arid fashion . Even the muhi plication of dectarigs bod ^ s no fcvj l to the establishment , if they are left to themselves without being motes ted

    for their " opinions . For in the first plate they are too much dividedarttongst them # 6 lv £ s , and too hostile tb each olher to Conspire against tire £ hurfeh . An # , in the

    second jila&e , 'thte <* ontfovef $ y c&i * certiing ehu&ch disci pftnfc / fo ¥ ms of pbafet , cefenibniefc , &e * fe almostAt test : Hie gr ** &t diinrg wii % reliMonyti of tfie * resei \ € dlay fe to Hoar what they Ml the gdspefe if the doctrine is e ^»« gel * eM &M * appi ^ dv ^ d , the lteareW ^ gi ^ d ft ^ ttf ' lfttfe ' conteq&ence whclfe ^ r the Wkce ? of assembly k » toti ^ ehl ^ a or Tmcons ^ cra * ed ? wbteihef tfed offl . tistmg i * ini « ter retods fottn ^ y ^ r ^ a ^ I iimw ^ bi ^ ^ v ^^ teer W ^ V&lh * mpmsttw ^ m t&mted ^ tmt ' .

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    And no persons n 6 w think of contending for the obsolete doctrines of divine right , eirber of egiscopacy , presbyterianism or independency . This is a great step gained

    in the progress of moderation . If any thing could bring the churchinto danger it wxDuld be the petty * persecutions which have of late been exercised upon nonconform - ists of various descriptions . It 16

    a fetct attested by all history , that persecution , where it does not proceed to extermination , always promotes the persecuted cause . The disposition shewn to deny privileges to bodies of men who think them *

    selves entitled to them , or to de * prive them of what they have long enjoyed , excites irritation and hostility wher £ it did not before exist 9 and combines parties who before had no connexion with each .

    other . And this , if any thing * might bring the church into real ddtrger . If the object be to fill the churches , the doors must bfe opened to the popular preachers ^ whose loose but familiar and

    moving addresses will always attract the multitude far more than the elegant , - polished , argumentative , or moral compositions of men of taste , education and learning . But if the friends of the Church of

    England would place her upbn a rock frdin Which she Could wiver be removed , they must reform the church herself , b y * discarding p , systett * of spectrfativc theology , vfrMeh \^ ais < tbef prpduct of a * ude

    and b ^ Hjarous Age 5 and which ia ihe& tiined of abounding light and knm ^ tedge ^ n ^ well-inforineHa pef-9 on wi \ t \ 4 ^ t ts&e to defend > by iuBstitiKji % | agr ^ eabJy 4 o ^ tfee prayor aftHej |) eti ^ feiing € le | gy fiirty years aga , ^ ub ^ r | n ti < yn to tti e scnpfar ^ s for 3 uhs ^ 4 Mto ^ fo efe ^ artteles , ^ iid

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 451, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/43/