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country ; but we had also been in the habit of calling them traitors and murderers , with perhaps as much justice . Papist was an invidious name ; and he need hardly say in an assembly of well-informed men , by no means applicable , in its strict sense , to the English Roman Catholics : as such , it ought not to be continued . The clause in the
bill which denied the benefit of it to any person who shall speak or write against the doctrine of the Trinity , was such as ought never to have been admitted into any bill \ and the admission of it into this was peculiarly improper , since it was never imagined but that the Roman Catholics were
sufficiently Trinitarian to satisfy the most orthodox divine of the Church of England-31 . Original Sin . ( Aprils , 1791 . ) On the clause in the Catholic Dissenters * Relief BUI that Catholics
should deny the infallibility of the Pope and absolution by priests , Mr . Win . Smith thought that certain words expressing that declaration might be left out , because he believed that very few Papists do consider that as any particular part of their
creed ; neither were they so blind or ignorant as -to trust the forgiveness of sins to the absolution of their priests , Mr . Pitt answered , that perhaps other words than those introduced in the
bill might be adopted ; but still he thought there should be some clause in the bill , which went the length of exacting from the Papists an avowal that no priest , or human being whatsoever , could absolve sins . Mr . Smith
proposed that the clause might be altered to answer the purpose , by in-Jserting the words " except original sinm " Mr . Fox thought that in this case the Roman Catholics or the Papists ,
as they were called , were not altogether treated fairly .. —When an honourable gentleman had mentioned original sin , the observation had been treated lightly , and more so , in his opinion , than it ought to have been . In our own established church , there
seemed to be some acknowledgment of and preventive against original sin , as well as among the Roman Catholics ; one instance he would mention , which was the idea of baptism . He might 'not be so orthodox , or so well-informed * n those matters , as some other gentle-
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men ; but on that point of absolution and forgiveness of sin v he considered an English clergyman to be just the same as a cardinal of Rome .
32 . Tythe * . ( April 19 , 179 K ) He said the country was oppressed by tvthes , the collection of which was harsh and injurious , and he anxiously wished that some gentlemen in the House would attempt to relieve the country from that species of barharism and discouragement to every agricultural improvement .
S 3 . Abolition of the Slave Trade . ( April 19 , 17910 Mr . Fox observed , that although the opposition to any adjournment was undoubtedly uncandid and unbecoming , yet he thought that the honourable colonel ( Tarleton ) who pressed
for an immediate division understood better the interest of his own side of the question than the other honourable gentleman ( Colonel Phipps ) ; for Mr . Fox said he had ever conceived that the only way by which the abolition of the Slave Trade could be
prevented , must be by stifling all inquiry and by hurrying the House into some vote which might seem to decide the question , before the opportunity of any real debate upon the principles of the trade was afforded .
It was a trade which , the gentlemen themselves well knew , would not bear to be discussed . Let there be discussion , and although there were some symptoms of predetermination in some gentlemen , the abolition of the abominable traffic must be carried .
He would not believe that there could be found in the House of Commons , men of sach hard hearts , and of such inaccessible understandings , as to vote an assent to the continuance of the
trade , and then go home to their houses , theirfriends and their families , satisfied with their vote , after being * made fully aware of what they were doing ; , by having opened their ears to the discussion .
[ The question of adjournment was ^ carried , and on the following day the debute upon Mr . Wilberforce ' s motion was resumed . ] Mr . Fox observed , that some expressions which he had used on the preceding day , had been complained of , as too harsh and severe . He had now had four and twenty hours to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1815, page 675, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1766/page/11/
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