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Committee , respecting the rejection of Lord Sidmouth ' sBill , with the most cordial satisfaction and gratitude ; regarding this triumph on behalf of religious liberty , as &n earnest of its security against any future measures of intolerance .
II . That while the members of this body are sensible of the pro - * tection afforded to their cause , by his Majesty ' s mihisters , they consider themselves as under peculiar obligations to those noble
Peers , who , with an eloquence flowing front a comprehensive view of the subject , and animated with tha most lively feeling of its importance , defended the interests of religious freedom ; and also to those noble Peers , who were
disposed , if it had been necessary , and thetimehad allowed , to have taken apart with their other advocates .
III . That a deputation , consisting of one minister from each denominatiQn , be appointed to wait oq the Right . Hon . Earls Stanhope andQrey , and Lords Holland and Erskine , to present the respectfu l * acknowledgments of this body , for the pre-eminent ability and ardour , and eventual success ,
with which those noble Peers vindicated their cause and prevented the progress of a Bill , which , whatever be the motives froin which it originated ^ tended very materially to alter and re .
warn the toleration established ty the Acts of the first years of the reigp of . King William and Q ueen Mary , andi of the nineteenth of the reiga of his present Majesty ; and with deference to
" ** supenoi ; judgment of the tried a approved , friends of their ° ause , to express their hopes , that a ' ^ - - P PW occasion offers ey will , by a ,-. similar excise of distinguished talents , v .. VI .
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Plan of" The Protestant Society ;** with an Address from th £ Committee of the Friends of Religigious Liberty , to Dissenting Ministers .
I . The designation of this Society is & The Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty . " II * The object of this society , is to protect the claims of
Protestant Dissenters , and other persons included in * the provisions of the Acts of Toleration , to all the privileges and exemptions therein specified , and to assist them in the
maintenance of religious liberty . III . That every congregation in England and Wales , contributing to this society an annual suni , according to their ability , by collections or subscriptions , but not less than 2 L iw England and iL in Wales , shall be entitled to it * protection , subject to the rules of the society *
IW That the officiating minis-.-ter , for the time being , of every such congregation , * and one other person belonging thereto , an& chosen fcy them , shall be mem beiV of this society . 2 a
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promote the abolition of all penal laws , in the province of religion , and a substitution of the benefits of complete liberty for those of a now restricted and partial toleration , x
IV . That the members of this body disapprove of the conduct of any ministers or others , who , in their intercourse with Lord Sidmouth , may have led his lordship to imagine , that the Bill which he projected would , either in its principle or its provisions , be satisfacw totfyto Protestant Dissenters . Signed , JoHfr Cctates , chairman .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/33/
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