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noble principles of their predecessors to be explained ? J 3 © es this meeting , in so perceyeringly # > i « - bearing to emulate their example , truly exhibit the general sense of the society they represent ? I be *
lieve not , and may at someftitune time offer you my reason * for thinking so , provided no person better qualified should take up the subject . It ought ^ to b ^ unders tood whether such marked supine less
i # the real character of the Society , or only of those > yho are at present its representative ^ chosen but of a list prepared as above mentioned by the elders and overseers of London , in secret conclave assembled .
AMICUS . To the Meeting for Sufferings , to be held the 1 st qf 5 th MontTi ^ 1812 . . Dear Friends ,
I do not wish to obtrude upon your attention a matter " of slight fnoment , . but there is a subject now before the Commons House of Parliament , and likefy soon to Come before the Upper Hou $£ 9
by way of petition , which au taches mpst closely , tp the prJnci * - pies of the society , as they were zealously professed aj ? , d actetji upon by oijr ancient Friends . I mean the subject of universal to < -
leratkm , or perfect liJberty of conscience in matters of religion , for which our ancestors , almost e *> clusively among the people of these realms , and under the heaviest temporal discouragements ,
contended-No JFriend , acquainted withtJbte statute books , will say , that there ^ re not maay acts trenchi ng upon the rights of conscience , and farmed in the tix $ v > at dwtofflfe
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and b | goftP y > * which ought tK ^ t to exist * in the ^ ode < tf a Christi an Country , arid the force ol whick is only repressed b y . the leijiency of the times ; but whilst they 4 o exist the monster of persecution may be rather said to be ^ dormant than to be defunct . ,
Many Friends , doubtless , may be disposed to ' make their minds easy on the subject , rf no new enactmeais effecting the society , and of an offensive riatUTe take
plac ^; but such Friends must have read ; tfre history of the society with very little ^ ttteritionj if they have not perceived that our predecessors were zealoiusly effected , not only for the interest ^ bHhe so .
ciety particularl y ^ but also for the interests of Christianity generally , by being the undaunted advocates of religious liberty ; and it is for such Friends to consider
how far they are discharging thiir duty by confining their views to present ease and accommodation , at a juncture when ihe exertions of all those who are on ihe side of virtue and truth are peculiarly called for .
The worthy and respectable £ ha *; acter who has tuk ^ n jifae most active partiin bringing this subject before tthe view of Parliament , I mean Christopher Wyvill ; , is anxious to obtain the co-op < ration of
^ riCere-hearted Christians i > ft very denomination , and from the known principles of the society , is willing tU reckon upon that of Friends , In one of ihe
communications lately received from him , he expresses himself thus : " Y «> ur preilecesttors il > past times , were liong / the only avowed advocates for libertyF ^ f'conscie nc e in tl » ese Cduntrii 3 s . ; At kabt the hohourft * itte a&c&fttiDns in olher cfawsee of
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$ 12 Mr . Harri&m * * Lettert&tte Quakers ^ on Mr . Wyvill's Petition
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1812, page 512, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1751/page/36/
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