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Gainsborough Unitarian Association . Tine third Half-yearly Meeting was held at Thorne , March the 25 th . The attendance of ministers and others from a distance was respectable , and the congreg * ations more numerous than has been known
since the opening * of the chapel in 1816 . Mr . Piper , of Norton ^ preached in the morning " , from 1 Cor . xvi . 9 , A great and effectual door is opened unto me , and there are many adversaries . ' In an ingenious and elegant discourse , the preacher drew a parallel between the circumstances
of Paul preaching * at Ephesns , and those of modern Unitarians , contending-, like him , for the Unity of God , the spirituality of his worship , and the benevolence of his character ^ in opposition to the worldly interests of those whom they endeavour to enlighten and reform . At the meeting * for
business it was announced , that 120 persons liad become members of the association ; audit was resolved , that the next meeting be held at Hull , and that Me . Hutton . be requested to preach . Thirty-two gentlemen dined together , and amongst the usual sentiments given from the chair , the success
of our Unitarian brethren in the neighbourhood of Madras was not forgotten . Mr . Little , of Gainsborough , preached in the evening from John x rii . 21 , &c . on Christian Union , shewing the manner in which
Christians might be one in the worship of God , the profession of the gospel , and the adoption of active means for promoting the cause of truth , and reprobating with indignation the imposition of creeds to produce Unity of faith . G . K .
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The undersigned being Protestant Dissenters , present to you the following Protest against the Marriage Ceremony as at present performed , and to which , according to the laws of England , they are compel led , to subscribe .
They disclaim all intention of acting disrespectfully , either to the Legislature or to its Civil Officer , before whom they stand -, they lament that they are placed in a situation so unnatural as that even forbearance towards what ihey esteem an established error would be a formal recan
tation of opinions which they received on conviction , and which they can only renounceon similar grounds- Against the Marriage Ceremony they most solemnly protest , Because it makes marriage a religious instead of a civil act :
Because parts of the ceremony are highly indelicate , and must , to every correctly-constituted mind , be extremely offensive : Because the man is required to worshfp the woman , though the Founder of Christianity has declared , that God is the only object for the Christian to worship :
Because it requires the recognition of the doctrine of the Trinity , than which nothing can be more oppressive to those who disbelieve conscientiously , and after patient investigation , that doctrine ,
conceiving that the whole of revelation fully sanctions their joining the Apostle Paul in declaring that , " to us there is but One God , and one Mediator between God and men , the man Christ Jesus : "
Because as Christians and Protestant Dissenters , it is impossible that they can sanction the interference of any human institution with matters which concern their faith and consciences ; Because as knowing nothing of a priesthood in Christianity , the submission to a ceremony performed by a person in " holy orders , or pretended holy orders , " is painful and humiliating to their feelings : Because as warm and firm believers in the truth of Christianity , they disbelieve and abominate the doctrine of the Trinity ,
in the name of which the Marriage Ceremony is performed : and Because as servants of Jesus , they worship the One living and true God 5 his God and their God , his Father and their Father . Signed . HENRY B . FEAROtf ,
JOHANNA THOMPSON , Members of the Church of God , meeting : at the Crescent , Jewin Street , London . March 12 , 1819 . The parts of the ceremony omitted by the minister upon this occasion , were the chief of the introduction , which is P * " liariy indelicate : The placing' the ring * on the Bible :
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27 £ Intelligence . — Protest against the Marriage Ceremony .
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Protest against the Marriage Cerenumy . No . 18 , Adam Street , A del phi . Sir ,
Observing in the Repository that the Unitarian body are preparing * a petition to the Legislature upon the Marriag-e Ceremony , I enclose for insertion in that publication , the following- proceedings in relation'to that ceremony .
H . BHADSHAW FEARON . ISIarrzedy On Friday , the 12 th inst ., at Westham , Essex , by Mr . Jones , Reotar of the parish , Ml \ Henry JBradshaw Fearon , of London , tq Miss Thompson , daughter of S . Thompson , JEsq . of Plaistow , Essex , when the following * Protest against the Marriage Ceremony was delivered ( previous to its performance ) into the hands of the minister , tqr Mr . Fear on : Protest , To Mr . Jones , ( of the Parish of Westham , EssexJ usually entitled the Reverend Mr . Jones : v
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/60/
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