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    scure , its assertions false , and its allusions indelicate , offensive , and revolting . " Because it is performed in a * place of worship / and is part and parcel of the ritual of a Church whose claims are unscriptural , whose foundation is not of God , whose authority is human , whose

    existence is dependent ou the State , whose days are numbered according to the ' sure word * of prophecy , and from whose communion we have separated ourselves in obedience to that heavenly mandate , ' Come out of her , ye my . people , that ye be not partakers of her sins , and that ye receive not of her plaguesA

    " Because being performed by a person c in Priests * orders , ' it implies a recognition of the claims of the Priesthoodan order which , upon the extinction of the Jewish Priesthood , hath never been

    re-established by Divine authority , which possesses no one claim that is sanctioned by Scripture , and can exist only by an usurpation of the rights and liberties of the Church of God , the equality of whose members is by Jesus and his Apostles st > expressly asserted * ic

    Because , as being an act of pabltcmul social prayer , it is without authority from the Scriptures , contrary to the example , and opposed to the positive commands of Jesus , who , when teaching his disciples to pray , directed them to pray in secret ,

    and forbade them alt Synagogue worship ; and who , upon anticipating the approach-Ing termination of all Temple worship , declared that man should worship neither in this- nor in that temple , but that * the true worshipers should worship the Farther in spirit and in truth /

    " Because the worship connected with this- ceremony fa Heathen * , being addressed to . a plurality of Gods , each of whom i » separately invoked , as God the Father , God the Sou > and God the Holy Ghostwhilst to usty there is but one true God , wen the Father , of whom are all things .

    " Because it is idolatrous % the language of prayer being therein addressed to * Christ i or , as the word implies , the anointed r the Measias , who , in , his office as the Memo * , U- in Scripture expre&sly called the , Man Jesus , * the Son of Mwh ' and who has himself proclaimed—* Thou shalt worship thq Lord thy God * andhi n * only shalt thou serve /

    " Because the doctrine of a Trinity of Gq 4 s U a palpable corruption of diviue ftiuhf ,, at * linage oi Pqgan idolatry , which not all the riches or honours it may dig * penae , of the terrors it may assume * cao Induce them to do homage to . And should this their testimony agpincft tfe * same expose them to ' the' fiery furnace '

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    300 Intelligence— Dhsenteff Marriages .

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    quitted in that day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesua Christ—we hereby offer our solemn protest and appeal against the same . " That , regarding the Clergyman as , in this instance , the Minister of an oppressive and wicked law , to which , by his Ordination oath , he hath rendered himself a party , such Protest and Appeal is delivered into his hands , and through him to all whom it may concern .

    ' ¦* That , considering the time and place ra which the law would compel hypocrisy and falsehood to be the only time and place iu which the delivery of a Protest could ease the conscience * of the party protesting ; such Protest is , for such reason , delivered in the Church , and at the time when the ceremony is to be performed .

    ** Against the present estabhshed mode of legalizing Marriage , by compelling submission to a religious ceremony by law appointed , they hereby offer the follow iug especial grounds of protest : — " Because it introduces a religious rite into a merely civil compact . " Because it is au interference of hu « Stan authority iu matters of faith . " Because it operates as a test of re ~ iigioua opinions *

    " Because it becomes an act of compulsive conformity with , the Church of England . " Becau&e it establishes a rite or cere-Djony in religion , all such being contrary to the commands of Jesus , and to the spwit of tliat religion of which he was thft divinely appointed teacher .

    * ' Because , although marriage be sauctkujed , audits duties , Hke all the several duties , enforced \ i \ the Scriptures , it is uo wlisre appointed to he * entered upon by % religious rite ., In no single instance in any age , either iu tke antediluvian , in the patriarchal , or the Jewish , does it appear that suck rite wa& performed . Meithev fyy Moses , uar by the Prophets , uor by iema ^ u or hy his- A p ^^ tka , vw ^ j s « ch rite ity § ti < pte 4 i (

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/68/