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would be in vain for our happiness tliat the legislature should accomplish our legal enfranchisement . As there is nutbing , we so ardently desire . as the perfect establishment of civil and social harmony , so is there nothing we more deprecate than the upholding of party distinction where all ought to have but one interest , and all have a common country to defend ; it is theitf re that we deepl y lament the t : \ istcnce of associations secret in \ hv detail of iheir views jand objects , but avowedly exclusive df us , hih ] . we tear hostile to our just clams . To the members of those associations we would say , in the spirit of peace and chanty , u Like you we contend for the freedom pi ' choice ; for the exclusive * right of the individual to the dominion of his own mind . You
adopt the religious ' opinions of the reformed Churches , we adhere to that system of belief , and that practice of rites which was the religion of your as well as our
Ancestors ; And which continues to be professed by three-fourths of the Christian World ; which is the establishc d Religion oi the greatest nations , and is and has been that
bf the most profound philosophers and greatest statesmen—we seek not to compare the merit of this or that system << f religious opinions , but we contend ior the light of . every niaii to embrace that which
appears to him best . Y « ii must sympathize with us in this claim . It is your boast . Then wherefore your hostility to us ? That cannot be wron g in the Catholic , which
is not sio in- the Proh slant ! Lay aside , countrjmen , y * ur unjust prejudices;—dissolve your illjudged exclusive associations , and let us become , what we ought to
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be ,. People , united in ff , f ( rt for the prosperity and defence of our common country and sovereign . "
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3 TB intelligence— -Dudley Jbouble Lecture .
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BUDJLEY DOUBLE LECTURE . On Tuesday the 4 th of June was holdc n at the Mi t tjng-H < use in Wolveihajijpton Street ^ Dudley Worcestershire , tiie Annual Double Lecture , of Dissenting Ministers nf the vicinity . The Rev . James Scott , of Cradley , introduced the service with prayer , 'i he nature of conscience and the happiness of preserving a good conscience ,
were stated in iheiirst Sermon , by the Rev . Ree *> Lloyd , of Kingswood , from Job xxvii . 6 . — l \ Jy heart shall no : n proach jne , so long as 1 live . ' In the second Sermon the Duty of Lo \ e to Christ . was judiciously explained and the obligations to it enforced ,
in an energetic strain , b y the R < v . John Rowe , of Bristol : f i \ m Ephes . vi . 24 . 6 < Graee he with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity . " After the usual services , the Ministers and
other Gentleimn adjourned into the Lecture Room , adjoining to the Meeting House , to take into consideration the late rejection of the Bill cif Lord Sidmouth in
the | i (> use of Peers : when various Resolutions , expressive * of their sentiments op the occasion and of respect and gratitude to those who had opposed the lion * Visccunt ' s Motion , were passed . The audii nee at the
Lecture was respectable , and one sentiment only , on the nature oi Lord Sidmouth's Bill and of ardour in the cause of relig ious liberty , diffused its generous g iow through the subsequent proceed * ings * . T'
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/58/
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