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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR The Christian s Survey of the Political World.
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and that it would betray a want of confidence in the favour of our Sovereign , in the justice of the legislature , and in the spirit of
the times , to submit to any proposed restrictions of this right in passive silence . III . That as faithful and loyal subjects ,, attached to the civil constitution of our country , and desirous of contributing : to that
tranquillity and uflion on which its permanence and prosperity very much depend , we cannot forbear expressing ourregret that any measures should be proposed
which have a tendency , by abridging our liberty as Protestant Dissenters , and restraining the exercise of social worship among those with whom we are connected , to
excite dissatisfaction and discontent at the present interesting crisis : and , more especially at a time when we had reason to hope that our liberty would have been enlarged , instead of being restrained ; though we are peaceably waiting for the period in wliich this happy event shall take place ,
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Religious liberty is such a blessing , that every attack upon it must excite in the serious mind considerable alarm . Imperfectly as it is enjoyed in England , we have seen the good effects of it ;
and we may be grateful , that under the shelter of the Act of Toleration , we have lived in a tolerable degree of security from the fury of bigotry and the attacks of priestcraft . The nations on the
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and penal laws no longer have any operation in the province of religion * IV . That the Bill now
introduced into the House of Lords appears to us inconsistent with the unmolested liberty which we have long thankfully enjoyed ; repug - nant to our principles and profession , as Protestant Dissenters who disavow the authority of the civil
magistrate in the province of religion ; and imposing restrictions which will be , in various respects , injurious and oppressive . V . That it is our duty , on our own behalf and on behalf of our
brethren , as well as with a view to the cause of religious liberty in genera ] , to make every constitutional effort in our power for preventing this Bill from passing into a law ; and that , for this purpose , a petition be presented by this body to the House of Peers .
P . S . The general body , consists of ninety-three ministers , oi the various denominations , and of these eighty signed the Petition .
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continent are gone beyond us upon this subject . They have seen the folly of religious persecution , and now allow to every man the rig ht of worshipping God according to
the dictates of his own conscience , and thus one branch of discoid is removed . An intimation or an interference with the present state of religion turned the attention of Dissenters to the subject , and their deputies vyere watchful over every
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308 State of Public Affairs .
Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or The Christian S Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR The Christian s Survey of the Political World .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/52/
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