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TOLERATION ACT.
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Toleration Act.
TOLERATION ACT .
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yn this and the following No . we intend to insert all the public documents , relating to Lord Sidmouth ' s proposed Bill . —Ed . ]
At a numerous and respectable meeting of Protestant DisseftterSy of various denominations ^ and other Friends to , Religious Liberty , residing in different parts of the United Empire , held at the Lon +
don Tavern ^ Btshopsgate Street * May the \ &th ) 1811 * Samuel MilUj Esq . in the Chair * It was unanimously resolved ) I , That fhis meeting believe that there are , at least , two millions of Protestant Dissenters in
the kitigdonh of England and Wafesj including persons of opulent fortunes , high literary attainitieiite , and active benevolence that tbeit * exertions have cotitri *
bated to promote industry , knowl&lgc , good morals , social order , and public prosperity . That they ktt not inferior to any of fteirfeHew * subjects in fervent love to their country , nor in ardent loyalty to their venerable
sovereign , whose early promise " to preserve the toleration inviolate " tasftade an unobliterableimpres * sion on their hearts—and that any measures which might excite Aeir discontent and enfeeble their
attachment , would therefore , at any time , and especially at this period , be inconsistent with the national interest , and with wise *« d liberal policy .
H . That although this meeting cbnsider the right to worship God acco rding to individual judgment as inalienable right ,, superior to all social regulations ; and , although they have long anticipated a period wheiv all penal laws ^ worshipping God according to
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their consciences would be abol . ished , they have been unwilling to agitate the public mind for the attainment of their hopes , and pre . suraing that no person would , in this age , venture to assail the Act of Toleration , after the
ever-Memorable declaration of the King , they have been content to regard it with grateful emotions , and to esteem it as an effectual protection from the recurrence of former
persecutions * III . That the persons assemble ^ at this meeting , have received " with great anxiety , the communications frequently made by the Right Hon , Viscount Sidmoutb , of his intention to propose l ^ gi ^ - lative enactments interfering with the * laws relating to Protestant Dissenters ; that they did hope the applications he has received , and the information
communicatedj would have prevented his perseverance . But they have learned the disappointment of their hopes , and have ascertained the provisions of the Bill , which he has at length introduced into Parliament with extreme regret , atid with painful apprehension . IV . That this Bill declares that all the provisions relating to Dissenting Ministers , contained
in the Toleration Act , and in the subsequent act for their further relief , were intended to be lifcnited only to ministers of separate Congregations ; and enacts First , That such ministers , upon being admitted to the peaceable possessi 6 ri and enjoyment of the place of ministers of a separate congre-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/43/
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