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g " ge in the honourable state of matrimony . It was urged that the facility with vyhich we obtained , through the laudable endeavours of Mr . William Smith , the repeal of the laws in force against Anti-Trinitarians , might be regarded as an inducement to us to
attempt a farther emancipation ; and that we are called upon to attempt it by the honest and manly declaration of that gentleman to Lord Liverpool , who asked him whether if we gained this point we should be satisfied : No , ? m / Lord , we shall neve ?* be satisfied till we have obtained a full and free exercise of an unshackled conscience .
The power of marrying , monopolized by the clergy of the church of England , —except in those cases where conscience has been successfully pleaded against it , the cases of the Jews and the Quakers , —is a power which they
inherit from the priests of the Romish Church ; who , as they held the keys of the gates of Paradise , and would suffer none to enter there except through their prayers , jveli paid for ; placed themselves also at the entrance of that
state , which , under the auspices of wisdom and virtue is the most happy upon earth , and demanded toll before its pleasures could be explored . They made it a sacrament , that their sacred order might be enriched by it , —Thus , and no otherwise , a civil engagement was converted into a religious farce .
As the Unitarian Associations throughout the kingdom will have met generally before this notification can be made to the public , it was resolved , thftt , if no public measures are adopted before the next summer meetings , the Secretarv of our Society shall
be requested , to address circulars to all of them , recommending them to address the Legislature by Petition . But it will in the mean time , be the duty of dissenting societies , to consider , whether there should be a more speedy application made , and whether it should
be done by the congregations . separately , or by their Associations , which unite many of them in their circle . It may , perhaps , be desirable for the Committee of the London Fund , to suggest a plarj , by which our individual energies may be concentrated , and rendered effective .
The case of the Rossendale congregation was also stated , and some pounds were immediately collected to
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assist them ; the propriety was also admitted of farther assistance bein obtained for them in our resrwt ; . ^ societies .
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446 Intelligence . —South Wales TJnitajrian Society .
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South Wales Unitarian Society The annual meeting of this Society was held on the 5 th inst . at Llangen - cleirn , near Carmarthen . The Rev Timothy Davis , of Coventry , prayed in Welch ; and the Rev . J . H . Bransbv of Dudley , in English . The Rev . Dr
Estlin , of Bristol , delivered an Eng - lish sermon from Acts xxiv . 14 , ^ which the zealous and worthy Doctor referred to the several publications of the Bishop of St . David ' s against the thiitarians , lamenting that so elegant a scholar and amiable a character in
other respects , should discover so much want of candour and of Christian liberality . As the sermon will be published , at the request of those who heard it , it would be needless here to give a further account of if . Then followed a Welch sermon by the Rev . David Davis , of Neath , from
John iii . SI . After explaining the phrase " from heaven , ' and " from above , ' * the preacher enlarged upon the superior excellency of Christ as a perfect character , and as a divine teacher , over John the Baptist and over all the other prophets of God . The audience was numerous and
attentive , though the English sermon took up an hour and a half in the delivery , and the Welch more than an hour . Not a few came together on this anniversary from distant parts of Carmarthenshire , and from Pembrokeshire , Cardiganshire , and Glamorgan . After the business of the Society was
transacted in the meeting-house , between forty and fifty persons sat down to dinner , at a neighbouring inn , twenty of whom were ministers , liie Rev . John James , of Cardiganshire , and John Thomasof Llanelli ,
preach-, ed in the evening . The advice of the late Rev . Job David , of Swansea , to the Welch Unitarians , on Iheir much , jjreacliing , is recommended to their re-consideration . See Mon . Rep . vol .
v . p . 463 . On the preceding evenw 0 , the Rev . Benjamin JEvans , of Panteg , preached , at JLlangendeirn , from Malachi , ii 10 , and the Rev . EvaajLloy ^ of Wick , from John ix . 22 . A " al Carmarthen there was also a res /^~ table meeting , on the evening ot in
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 446, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/46/
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