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cases , and especially at Alverston in Derbyshire , had been happily successful , and had been gratefully acknowledged ; but althoug h in such cases the Committee had iaterfered , under particular circumstances , they disclaimed every intention to interpose in congregational and doctrinal disputes , as such interposition was incompatible with the objects of an institution , established not to usurp party and internal
authority , but to affbid protection to all Religious Societies , and to open to them an universal asylum from external oppression . - Baring- thus analyzed the labours of the Committee for the past year , he alluded
to the consideration afforded by them to the great measure of promoting" at the Congress at Vienna , the general religious liberty of all British subjects in all those parts of the world which had so long occupied the attention of that Congress ; and to the satisfaction which must be felt a-
raidst the'g loom which overspread Europe and the world , and which the proceedings of that ( assembly had rather tended to deepen than to disperse , that a general regard to the rights of conscience had been professed , and that assurances had been
giFea , that in all the projected transfers of territory , the religious liberties of all people should obtain inviolable respect . The importance of that liberty he then illustrated , as well as the essentiality of universal instruction , to the attainment and
maintenance of freedom . To deficiency of knowledge he attributed the want of influential and commanding { Sublic opinion , and those violations of liberty which , during the past year , all the friends of human happiness and of genuine religion must have observed with regret . To that cause he ascribed the alarm which- during * cause he ascribed the alarm whichduring
, ^ e short peace , began to pervade the Protestants of France , the outrages which superstition had dictated in Flanders agaiast Protestant travellers , the attempted ^ -establishment of the Jesuits , and the absurd and oppressive edicts which Iiad been issued by the Papal Government at tionie , and the reviviiication of the
execrable Inquisition in that Spain for whose deliverance England and Ireland had slied l best blood of their bravest sons . By "te progress of instruction throughout the w orld , he hoped the degrading- fetters ^ hich even in England continued to be
j »> posed on Dissenters , would be finally woken ; that the empire of truth , freedotn M piety would universally prevail ; and at then they might chant the recfuiem of tt insti tution without reluctance , ai * 4 ° toce its dissolution amidst universal
But until that period arrived , the past ^ antage and continued utility of the SoyJ » jWch the experience of the past JJ * « ad additionally confirmed , must v bounced its eulogy ; and principle and vi
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interest , gratitude and hope , must unite to perpetuate and promote its existence and energy . The comprehensive and Catholic principles which were the foundation of the edifice , required that it should be maintained by a benevolence equally
extensive , and as Dissenters and Methodists , Pa ^ do-baptists as well as Baptists , from whom the most numerous applications were received , participated its protection , irrespective of all doctrinal distinctions , and as gentleman of all religious denominations were associated in its
committee , it deserved and should indubitably obtain unanimous and increasing * support . The state of the finances of the Society were then explained . It appeared that they possessed a funded capital of £ 3 , 500 . This capital , as a security against future emergencies , it was thought indispensable
to preserve , and to appropriate the interest only towards the payment of the current expense : but it also appeared , that the expenditure of the two last years had considerably exceeded the whole income , as well arising from the annual congregational subscriptions , as from such interest of the stock .
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¦¦¦¦^¦¦ VHV ^ OW Resolved , 66 1 st . That the statement made to this meeting of the proceedings of the committee of this society during the past year candot but excite both regret afidv satisfaction : —Regret that at this period , and in so many places , violent opposition should continue to be manifested to
religious freedom , and to the progress of instruction and piety 5 and satisfaction that such acts of persecution have been resisted by die Committee with that promptitude and energy wliich the violence and increase of those acts obviously required . " 2 nd . That this meeting particularly approve the undeviating attention
manifested by the Committee to the principles of this institution , by affording protection to Baptist and to Poedo-baptist congregations , and to all persons of all denominations whose religious liberties have been infringed , and that such liberality of principle should be encouraged and perpetuated by equally liberal , and by universal support .
** 3 rd . That this meeting also applaud the firmness with which the Committee have withheld their interference from all internal congregational disputes , and express their hopes that applications for such interference will never recur . " 4 th . That convinced of the numerous
and great evils -which would result from the continuance of the present state of the law as to the assessment of places of re- * ligious worship to the parochial rates for the relief of the poor , and which this Society have repeatedly expressed , this meeting receive witli pleasure the information that his majesty ' s government have kindly
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Intelligence .- —Report of the Protestant Satiety . 385
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 385, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/57/
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