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Christians' Petition against the Prosecution of Unbelievers . ( See the Petition at length , pp . 362—364 . ) HOUSE OF COMMONS . July 1 .
Mr . HuMd f&fee for the purpose of presenting a petition which he considered of gteat importance . Before he did ' so , he pegged to correct an error which had & «? , ? re 9 J ^ tiii ^ what ; he had said ™ ^ ' ***? * had be *« made to say in onc Publication ; that he disapproved of
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Dissenters altogether , when , in fact , he only expressed his disapprobation of that sect to which an Hdnouraole Meinbeir belonged ( Mr . Butterwortb ) . His acquaintance lying very much among Dis * seuters , many of whom he knew to be most intelligent and virtuous men , he should have belied his own experience if he had said so . He was of opinion , that
general censures were always wrong , and as his feelings had been more excited on the occasion to which he alluded , by the * intolerance displayed by that sect of which alone he spoke , he took the opportunity of this cooler moment to explain what he had said . Having done so , he would add , he regretted that any person
should have presumed to" arraign his conduct , and to have designated him as the advocate of a person whose opinions he was so far from advocating , that if that person had listened to his advice , he would long ago have abstained from publishing them . He was well convinced that to attack prejudices in the way Mr . Carlile had attacked what he considered
prejudices , was the best means of diffusingand strengthening them . He did hope that in future no person would take the liberty of endeavouring to represent him as the advocate of such opinions . The petition to which he now called the attention of the House was signed by 2 , 047 persons , members of Christian congregations , of whom 98 were ministers . Among the latter were names which the House
would agree were entitled to considerable respect , such as those of Dr . Evacrs , Dr . Jones , Dr . T . Rees , Dr . Barclay , Mr . Roscoe and others . A more sensible petition , and one more consistent with the spirit of Christianity , had , perhaps , never been presented to the House . He could not conceive that any sincere believer in the doctrines of the Christian
religion could doubt that any thing which tended to stamp the character of persecution upon that religion was more calculated to bring it into contempt than all the scoffs and the arguments of its worst enemies . He proposed to follow up the reading of the petition with a motion which he should submit from a sense of
duty , and which , if adopted by t < he House , as he anxiously hoped it would be , would tend to check the mischief which- had been caused by recent proceedings . On the motion that the petition be printed , Mr . Butterworth asked by how many ministers of the Church of England this petition was signed , and of what class of Dissenters the other petitioners consisted . Mr . Hume replied , that it was signed by Dissenters of all classes , and the names of the ministers were in a Separate column .
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IntelUgeM e - ~~*^ ri 8 tiam Petition against the Prosecution of Unbelievers ^ 485
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not wish to press the evidence of a wit" ess who professed such tenets . He would call another . He fully proved the publishing by other respectable witnesses . "
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Portuguese Superstition . " June 24 th . The 22 d was a day of real triumph , on which their Majesties and Royal Highnesses went in solemn procession to the Church of Santa Maria Maior to return thanks to the King of kings , and the Queen of Heaven , " &c . { Morning Chronicle . ) Upon this a
correspondent observes , " The Protestant smiles or frowns , as well he may , at seeing the wife of a Jewish carpenter worshiped part passu with God , as the Mother ( in Protestant Trinitarian language ) of Him , who is the Supreme Being , O * the uaote in a brother ' s eye *! Quo fonte ?"
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Society for Relief of Evangelical Dissenting Ministers .
A Society has been lately formed in London under the above title . It may be wanted , and will no doubt do good . It is lamentable , however , that charity should be connected with subscription to articles Of faith . The persons to be relieved by this society must be such as << maintain the sentiments of the
Assembly s Catechism , both as to faith and practice , " and must produce a certificate of their religious principles ! Baptists are as much excluded from this " Evangelical" Society as Unitarians . Even a Baa ?~ terian cannot derive benefit from it without some subterfuge . The idea of so
sectarian an institution was probably suggested by the two or three individuals who objected , at the formation of the Aged and Infirm Ministers' Society , to the union of the Three Dissenting Denominations , inasmuch as it would imply that all three were equally Christian !
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1823, page 485, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1787/page/53/
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