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ing from the judgment of the timid or the time-serving , to the example of the Prophets aud Apostles of old , to the coa * duct of the early Reformers from Popish darkoesfl , to that cloud of heavenly witnesses , who , in every age and nation / have chosen to obey God rather thai ! man , ( Signed ) " G . HUMPHRIES . " S . L , TEMPLE . "
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of persecution , they will exclaim with some of old , * Our God whom we serve ie able to deliver us ; but if not , be it known unto thee , oh King , that we will not serve tfiy Gods , nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up / " In concluding this protest , and iu order to remove all doubts touching the
nature and certainty of their faith , as well as to shew the obligation which is imposed upon them by their principles , to make such protest in the face of the Established Church , as their bretbreu have hitherto done , the undersigned , both on their owu part and that of the Church uuder whose instruction they now act , hereby declare their
belief—*« That the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament contain the revealed will of God . " That , as such , and in consequence , the Scriptures , and the Scriptures only , should be the rule of their faith and practice . " That < the God and Father of our Lord Jesus' is ' the only true God , ' acd ' that there is none other God but one * " That Jesus of Nazareth was a man
approved of God by miracles and wonders and signs which God did by him / ' « That be died , and by the power of God rose again according to the Scriptures . " That' God hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he bath ordained /
" That God hath separated to himself a people on earth , ' which is the Church of the living God , the pillar and ground of the truth / " That the Members of this Church are required to look to Jesus as ' the guide and complete pattern of their faith ,
who , for the joy that was set before him , endured the cross , despising the shame , ' and that it is their duty to follow his ex * ample , who hath declared before the rulers of the world , * To this end was I born , and for this purpose came I into the world , that 1 might bear witness unto the truth /
* ' . That with these sentiments and hopes , and with these views of God and Heligion * they are compelled , at all times and at whatever risk , to raise their voice against false worship , to protest against ajl subT acription to false doctrines in season and
out of season , whether men will hear or whether they will forbear—acting on web occasion not as men pleasers , but a # iu the sight of God—neither desiring the applause nor deprecating the wn&ure Qf this world—anxious only for * tj » e tt # t £ - wony of a good conscience / and apf > ealr
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Catholic Question . We are sorry to have to record the loss of Sir Frauds Burdett ' s motion for die removal of the Catholic Disabilities by a majority of 4 , after two nights' debate , thu number being 276 to 272 , besides about 16 on each side who paired off . The debate did not present any new views of the case , notwithstanding the leading debaters
of the House took part in it . It wns , however , singular to see that the discussion was mainly kept up by speakers who , though of the most opposite opinions on this point , form part of the present most singularly uuited administration * There was certainly no iu crease of candour or liberality in the tone of the supT porters of the present wretched system of
discord . It does not appear to be clearly ascertained by this division that any decisive alteration , in point of numbers , has been effected b y the late elections . Tba minority on this occasion is larger than the former majorities ; the numbers on
the great divisions of 1821 aud 1825 being 252 to 243 , and 268 to 241 . More members have now voted $ and , perhaps , this may be owing to the temporary excitation occasioned by the recent elections , which has brought out maiiy to vote who would in ordinary caseB have kept in the back ground .
The unfavourable position which the Catholic cause undoubtedly occupies iu popular estimation is , perhaps , mainly attributable to the turn which the controversy has of late taken , towards a discussion of the theological and ecctofti * astical merits of the Catholic religion ,
rather than of the political question regarding the rights of it * proftwor * a * citizens . It i » clear that it ha * for * 0 H » e time been the game of the opponents of the Catholics so to confound the argwr m # nt , and the latter have , unfortunately , too readily falko into the trap . Tb < y of course are not to be blamed lor avow :-
ing and waiotaining , at proper « $ a * ou * , tfce opinion * which i&ey c # n » cWiiliowly a 4 o . pt , i but every one must «*» tfeat Rnr gU » b Pioteftteote ( md jmrtteuterly tho « e very ProtastanUj txain whom they ftavi
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/69/
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