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the purpose of fulfilling the duties of the trust . J . J . TAYLER , 1 Secretaries S . D . DARBISH 1 RE , / becretanes ' Manchester , May 16 , 182 f . * * * Letters on the subject of the Institution may be addressed to George William Wood , Esq ., Treasurer , Manchester ; or to the Rev . W . Turner , Visitor , Newcastle * upon-Tyne ; by whom , and by any of the Deputy Treasurers , subscriptions and donations are received *
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Unitarian Marriage Bill . Our Review department last month announced the plan on which it was proposed to present the subject of Unitarian Dissenters' Marriages to Parliament this Session . Leave has accordingly been moved for and given . The Bill has passed some of its early stages in the House of Commons , no opposition , and indeed no observation , being made as to its progress .
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462 Intelligence . —Freethinking Christiana * Petition
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Freethinking Christians' Petition . On the 14 th of May , the following Petition relative to the mode of celebrating Marriages , was presented to the House of Cominous by the " Freethinking Christians . " The humble Petition of the Elder , Deacons , and Members of the Church of God , meeting in London , and known as Freethinking Christians ,
Sheweth , That your petitioners are an united and organized religious body , which , under the appellation of " Freethinking Christian , " has existed for nearly thirty years , separate and distinct from all other religious communities .
That , whilst the Toleration Act hath secured complete liberty of opinion , your petitioners complain that , by an act of the Legislature , which passed in the 26 th year of the reign of George If ., they are prevented entering into the Marriage State without submitting to a rite of the Established Church of
England , and joining in an act of religious worship with one of its ordained ministers—which act of worship is a clear and public admission of the doctrines , the authority , and claims of such church . That , to avoid all misconception as to their motives , to prove the extent of the grievance of which your petitioners cpmplahi , and to establish the practicability of the relief for which they pn * y—they humbly submit to your Honourable House
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a declaration of their faith and principles of union . That , convinced of the insufficiency of what is called Natural Religion , and confirmed by evidence in their belief in Revelation , your petitioners receive the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as containing the revealed will of
God . That , desirous of obeying in all things the will of God , as made known by revelation , they reject all human authority in matters of religion , making the laws of God , as contained in the Scriptures , the sole rule of their faith , discipline and practice . That from a serious , unremitting and free inquiry into the Scriptures , they have concluded and
believe—That * ' there is none other God but one . " That " the God of Abraham , of Isaac , of Jacob , " " the God and Father of our Lord Jesus , the Christ / ' Is " the only true God . " That " Jesus of Nazareth" was " a man approved of God by miracles , and wonders , and signs , which God did by him . "
That he died , and , by the power of God , was " raised again according to the Scriptures . " That God " hath appointed a day in tjie which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath 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 this church , as " the household of God , " is governed by God alone , being ** built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets , Jesus , the Christ , himself being the chief corner-stone . " That the constitution , laws and government of this church are , in the Scriptures of the New Testament , so expressly set forth as not to need , but absolutely to preclude , all human legislation therein .
That this constitution , these laws , and this government , being of Divine appointment , cannot be violated—cannot be dispensed with—cannot be altered , abridged or added to , without rebellion against God , and treason against his authority .
That your petitioners , as the church of God , acknowledge the constitution , maintain the laws , and summit to the government , thus given by God to his church . They acknowledge Jesus as the sote
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 462, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/70/
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