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ftesolved , I . That the Report of the Committee is highly satisfactory to this meeting . That loving
religion , liberty and their native land ^ they rejoice at the speedy rejection of a Bill , which would have limited the diffusion of religious light , have enfeebled the energy of freedom , and by producing
internal dissentions , have inflicted upon their country a dangerous wound : and that thfcy particularly rejoice that this effect has resulted from the zeal displayed by the friends to religious liberty of every denomination and that complete success has conferred on their la » bours an adequate reward . II . That this meeting congratulate ministers and other friends
resident in every part of the empire , on this memorable result ; on the just displeasure they have manifested at the first effort of reviving intolerance , o ; i their consequent attention to the recom
mendations of the former meeting ; on their liberal promises of pecuniary aid ; and on the pledges they have given of their determin - ation to resist any encroachments en the Acts of Toleration , and
ever y future attempt to restrict useful and pious teachers from disseminating Christian principles , and thereby promoting the salvation of men * III . That anxious to vindicate Protestant dissenters from the
unmerited imputation of having acted with insincerity or from caprice , this meeting declare that all comniunicatiohs alledged to have occurred between individual
dissenters and the framer of the Bill , were unauthorized by any body of Protestant dissenters ; and that any
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favourable opinions of the measure , which such persons might avow , have never obtained the sanction of general approbation .
IV , That the inconveniences which have long resulted from the want of union and co-operation among " Protestant dissenters for the protection of their religious rights ; the necessity which has
been demonstrated for the appointment of persons authorised vigilantly to watch against innovation on their privileges ; as well as the constructions that have been put on the Acts of Toleration ; the
assumption by magistrates of judicial authority in the execution of some of the provisions of those Acts as to which their power is only ministerial ; the recent violent outrages which have been committed
against their meeting houses and preachers in Suffolk and Kent ; and the harsh revival of the intolerant provisions of the Conventicle Act in Berkshire , against persons , guilty only of assembling
to pray to God , induce this meeting to recommend that a society be formed of the ministers of congregations of Protestant dissenters , and 01 other persons assembling under the Act of
Toleration , throughout England and Wales , to defend themselves against these evils ; and that any balance of monies which the
committee , appointed by the former meeting , may eventually retain , be applied by them towards the formation and for the purpose * of such society V . That the same committee
be requested to prepare the plan of sm ; h society ; to invite the conu cuHrence of every congregation assembling undtr the Acts of Tolercw
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/25/
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