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so many ages Should never dispute it , til ! -of late 5 how unlikely our Saviour would leave his Church without a visible head and guide to resort to , during his absence j with the like
usual topics so well penn'd , as to the discourse , as did by no means seeme to me to . have ben put together by the late King , yet written all with his owne hand blotted and interlin'd , so as , if indeed it was not given him by some priest , they might be such arguments and reasons as had ben
inculcated from time to time , * and here recollected 5 and in the conclusion , shewing his looking on the Protestant religion ( and by name the Church of England ) to be without foundation s and consequently false and unsafe . When his Ma had shewn htm these
originals , he was pleased to lend him the copies of those two papers , attested at the bottotne in 4 or 5 lines , under his owoe hand . " These were the papers 1 saw and read ? I . Q \ %
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Sir , Jan . 29 , 1819 . MEMBER of my family purposes A shortly to enter into the marriage state ; and though a Dissenter from the Established Church , he feels himself compelled , in order to obtain the benefit of a legal marriage , to
have the ceremony performed at the Church of England , and by one of its ministers . As a conscientious man , the party referred to has carefully read over the marriage ceremony , to ascertain whether , without a violation of conscience , he can accord with its
principles and details . And first , Sir , as it is usual in the celebration of marriage for the younger branches of a family to attend , particularly young females , it is impossible
not to feel repugnance at the very great indelicacy of expression in several parts . of the marriage ceremony : to quote such instances , would be to sully your pages , and render the publication which should contain them ,
an unfit companion at the breakfasttable of a moral and well-educated family . How extremely objectionable then must that language be , in a public , and as it assumes to be , a religious ceremony , which , even in the intercourse of private life , we should be ashamed to use i « the presence of our wives and our daughters !
It seems , also , that the man who joins in the marriage ceremony , is made to declare a direct falsehood , bypromising what he never intends to perform . I allude here to the declaration made by the man to the woman ; ** With all my worldly goods .
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Law of Executors iegardin $ Unitarians . 150
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London , Sir , February 24 , 1819 . IN the new edition of Toller ' s Law of Executors and Administrators , published at the conclusion of last year , are the following passages : —
" By Statute 9 and 10 William III ., c . 32 , persons denying the Trinity , or asserting that there are more Gods than one or denying the Christian religion to be true , or the Holy Scrip * tures to be of Divine authority , shall , for the second offence , among other incapacities , be disabled from being executors . " P . 36 .
" A legacy is a bequest or gift of personal property bj ' will . All persons are capable of being legatees , with some special exceptions by common law and statute /' " By Statute 9 and 10 William III .,
c . S 2 , persons denying the Trinity , or asserting that there are more Gods than one , or denying the Christian religion to be true , or the Holy Scriptures to be of Divine authority , shall , for the second offence , be also incapable of any legacy . " P . 299 .
It must be quite superfluous to inform you , or any of my brethren in faith , that the Statute , commonly called the Blasphemy Act , was repealed by the 53 rd Geo . lit , c . 160 * " so far as the same related to persona
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denying as therein mentioned , respecting- the Holy Trinity : " b » t as the work ) from which I have quoted the previous erroneous passages is commonly appealed to as authority by the
profession , and referred to for their guidance by individuals , I apprehend it would not be entirely useless if you were to inform your numerous readers , that the Unitarians , though not more covetous than their fellow-creatures
of the good things of this world , or of interfering in other men ' s affairs , are equally capable with all mankind of enjoying the benefit of their relations' and friends' liberality , and of discharging the last kind office which they can trust to any man ' s care . ONE *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/23/
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