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protect and not impair , the relief afforded by the former ancient ami venerable statute , VL That the Bill introduced into Parliament is not justified by any necessity , and will be highly injurious- —that it is
unnecessary , because the evjls presumed to result from the abuses of the existing laws , by a few persons who may have improperly taken the paths required from dissenting preachers and teachers , do not exist but to a most
inconsiderable extent ; and because the extension of all such abuses has been anxiously , and would be effectually , discountenanced by every class of Protestant Dissenters —and that it must be injurious , because it will introduce forms
unprecedented , inconvenient , or impracticable—will render itinerant preachers , students of divinity , ministers on probation , and many persons to whose ardent piety and disinterested labours multitudes
are indebted for religious instruction , liable to serve all civil offices —and will expose all ministers , or the witnesses to their certificates , to be barrassed by repeated attendances at different sessions , and to
capricious examinations and unlimited expence—because by limiting the right of persons to become dissenting ministers , it will i mpose new restrictions on toleratio n—and because it will create a
precedent for future attempts at ev niore dangerous or fatal experi ments against religious liberty . Wl . That although most re'Uctant to interference with
politjca l affairs , they cannot but regard the present attempt with pec uliar sensations of alarm , and that veneration for their ancestors , regard to their posterity ,
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respect for rights which they can never abandon , and the sacred ob ~ ligations which they feel , will therefore compel them to disregard all doctrinal and ritual distinctions .
and to unite b y every legitimate effort to prevent the pending Bill from passing ijito a law , and to oppose the smallest diminution of the privileges secured by the Act of Toleration . VIII . That from the noble declaration of the liberal-minded
and illustrious Prince Regent of the Empire , that he will deliver up the constitution unaltered to his royal father , this meeting are encouraged to indulge confident hope that a measure so innovating and injurious caiv never obtain the sanction of his high authority ^ and they also rejoice that it has not been introduced by his
Majesty ' s Government—That respectful application be therefore made to them for their wise and continued protection—Thata Petition to the House of Lords against the Bill be signed by all the persons
present at this meeting , and that all congregations of Protestant Dissenters , and other friends of religious liberty throughout the empire , be recommended to present similar Petitions , and that a committee consisting of persons resident in London be appointed !
to effectuate these proceedings , and to adopt any measures they rnay deem expedient to prevent the successful prosecution of this Bill—and that dissenting ministers of every denomination , resident in the country , be alt >> members of this committee may increase their number—and that any three members be competent to act . , IX . That the following gentle *
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Toleration Act 301
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/45/
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