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ceremony ( considering it s * s a matter of civil regulation ) in the Ctiweb , the utmost * perhaps , which k * Jtto&jr to be obtained , or which it might be prudent to ask , would be to be relieved
from joining m the devotional part of the service . This mfght fee very readily effected by an abt to permit the celebration and registration of the marriages of those Dissenters who should require it , on the use of that
part of the service only which contains the mutual pttghtiug of tike parties , and is purely civil . Tbia mode would in fact secure all the municipal objects of the Marriage Act , at the same time that it would ptrt ail end
to the anomalous conformity which Dissenters are at present obfiged by law to practise to tfce religious services of a Church , frow which the same laws protect them in separating and it would leave them of coarse at
full liberty to add , if they pleased , to these civil regulations , atoy religious service which they might tktn * k ^ proper to adopty art then ? own ptoee of worship . " There is undoubtedly a middle course which may conje under consideration , ( though likely , perhaps , on several accounts to meet v »? th more
opposition , ) that of allowing each sect the celebration of the marriage ceremony aecwding to its own fo * rtir providrng only for proper registration m the parochial register , on the certificate of competent persons , and ; on
payment Ustke minister of the a / ccus * totned feesk It is , however , perhaps ptemaib&YG . to di&auss at any great length this branch of the subject . It
will be brought generally uncter tfafc consideration © tf the Legislature and the mode in which relief may be afforded ^ tf at ali ^ . will probably depend upon caiimderation ^ on which blto
it is in ^ po stj ie speculate in anticip ^ ian * widi any degree ofi certainty . " The Committee wiH , perhaps be expectedt to notice the subject which wa *> much under discussion at the time ih& Association commenced
aamoly , tolie liability o * a congrogarton to dispos 8 € S 8 KQHr t > t property arising e «« i fmm it& own iuiniediirte contrifau ^ oais ^ tm ajicou « t : ofi any change ( wlietjkeD m& orexititiui # only m > th ^ j Itodatilians all fegaif fi « lwn )) im its op ^ wwfm * dpsoiplifie . TChi Commit *** « ed iiawfly wiy ^ th « b tlwy would ;
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whenever called upoi > for thw ojwi t ^ npe oil : siicft ^ occasion , clp aritt to ^^ T . P 9 W&t to OPP ^? * piOQit * so hpstile to the progress of free Luquiry , aod | % exercise of cornpiete r&giom liberty—so inconsistent with ife truf ^» d enlarge principles on which Bis *
senter « form themselves into sociefles-Th ^ y Iiaye not , however , been called Upon to interfere on tb ^ su tjjfict ; ajid they trust tTxat the disgraceful attempt whih
cyyvp recently made or couutenanced b ^ y pe r 90113 calling t ^^ ijj i ? serves by IIm ? name of Ptesentejrs , while they violated ev " ery principle tli ^ t coul d entitle ib # m to k > will ^ iia C 09 fer reflection , h , e abandoned .
"In the discussion of the case to whi ch % hf Committee have U * $ r&-ferred f a point was also ra ised of considerable ioiportance > ajB it was JevelUil not only against the property but tt ^ liberty of y nitarians , yvi \ o f it y ? iU % p recollected , were tbere contended to
pe still subject to prosecution as offenders against the Christianity $ 9 $ to be a ) one recognized by J * w » Tfye Conaoiittee have Bot foutid " - ' | t neoes aary to take any steps tow ^ 3 rer ppvin ^ th fl ip utrt which U ^ bje 0 ^
^ thus raised , particularly as it see ^ e involved m the coosider ^ t ioB of ^ p § fg y ^ fii ^ h may still be said to be un ^ judicial decision , and they c ^ tfcerefprp only oto ^ rve , that tjie nipri Jjfc arguments u $ fjd ia support of t'fee jarqe to
position just ^ tlt uded are considered , the liws foundation do tii ^ y appear tp liave ia any principles which woyW nqt equaDy apply / to the , whole \ xo ^ y of Dissenters , who differ in aj ^ y dfegree ^ from the 4 ^? trines of the J&tar bTished Church . 'f The Committee ,, in conclusipn , are
iMippy tp- hiwti it in their jpower ^» cowgratulate the General Meeting ou tjip gradual , and they trust , 6 r » i ^ t ^ blishmeut tf ** Tffye Uniiwian A $$ Qr ciation . " They are able to report many congregatiam * as having already united themsdves in support of its
objects ; and'they have no doubt that they shall , before the next meeting , enrol in its connexion by far the greater part of tji § existing bodies of Unitarians in the kingdom . It must be unnecessary for the Committee to
enlarge 041 the Ueueficial u ^ eace of institutions like the piw ^ e ut . Independent q § thAir utility in mussing actual injuries , and pmteoMag the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/35/
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