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430 ' Gleanings .
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pies sanctioned by reason and frieudly to civil liberty , and tjeeding neither endowment nor persecution from the civil power to keep them in action , and to make their operation a blessing to society .
The repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts would not give the Dissenters power , ( as has beeu vulgarly and clamorously objected , ) but it would give them their rights . The acquisition of power would be on the part
of the Crown * and the People ; both which are now tied up from delegating authority to subjects and fellowcitizens who may say their prayers in a place , or after a form not used or approved by the multitude . *
A leading politician pf the present day has said , " Why are . not the Dissenters content ? The annual Indemnity Bill is a virtual repeal of the Test Acts . " He knows us pot . If our object were place or power , his remonstrance would reduce us to silence .
"What we ask is not pardon , for we are not offenders , but justice . We feel the insult more than the injury of these bills of exclusion ; and we demand their abolition in the name of our fathers , in the name of our posterity , in the name of our constitution , and in the name of our common
religion . For a proof of the uselessness , at least , of such bigoted enactments , we refer to Scotland , which maintains its ecclesiastical establishment and municipal corporations without them ; and
to Ireland which has now , for half a century , abolished them with regard to Protestant Dissenters , and which wants only the like abolition with regard to Catholic Dissenters to be jn a state of peace and prosperity .
Divided as the United Kingdom is in religion , it is irnpoKSsible that the minority of population , constituting the Church of England , should much looger constrain this great people to
? Tv » o exceptions must be made to this statement . Though a Dissenter cannot be an exciseman , he may be chosen by the pcpple to sit in the House of Commons , qf be raised by Ins Sovereign to the peerage-May lie-not also he of the Privy Council ?
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do homage to her ritual , on pain of civil incapacitation ; impossible that the Scotti&b Presbyterian , the Irish Catholic and the English Dissenter should all be treated as illegitimate by their country , their common mother * impossible that > vhile the light of knowledge is throwing its powerful
influence upon every state of l £ urope , converting Russia into a civilized and polished empire , and raising up a people strong and free and steady in France , Great Britain should continue to venerate the relics of barbarism , and to share with Spain the odium of intolerance . A ,
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gleanings ; or , selections and reflections made jn a course of general reading . No . CCCL . Curraris Visit to the Catacombs at Paris * I don't remember ever to have had my mind compressed into eo narrow a space : so many human beings , so
many actors , so many sufierers , so various in human rank , so equalized in the grave I When I stared at the congregation , I could not distinguish what head had raved , or reasoned , or hoped , or burned . I looked for
thought , I looked for dimples—I asked , whither is all gone—did wisdom never flow from your lips , nor affection hang upon them—and if both or either , which was the most
exalting— -which the most fascinating ? AH silent . They left me to answer for them , So &haM the fairest face appear . " Life , by his Son , II . 8 $ 7 .
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No . CCCLI . Fate of Revolutions * Such is the fate of Revolutions—• nothing certain but blood . The march
of the captives begins through a Red Sea ; and after forty years ia seeking new abodes and strange gods , the leader seldom sees the promised land , or , at least , dies before his foot has touched it , —Ibid . II . 359 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/30/
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