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motives , have of late yeais been revived in this country , under the title of * Societies for the Discouragement and Suppresion of Vice / which have been the subjects of
much ridicule and abuse . They have too often exposed themselves to censure , by having had recourse to unjustifiable means of accomplishing their end , shewn great partiality for offenders of high rank , and mistaken the objects which claimed their attention .
They have sometimes wasted their energies upon subjects with which they had no concern , and neglected some of the most efficacious means of public virtue . In the principle of such associations there is nothing surely censurable , but on the contrary much to be
commended . * The united powers of many call effect infinitely more than the solitary exertions of individuals ; and to check the progress of vice , is of no less importance , than to provide an asylum for the sufferers by casualties , or medical aid for the diseased poor . But of all such associations it
should be the fundamental principle , that it is the part of private bodies to prevent , rather than to punish , the commission of evil . Instead therefore of labouring to
convert the Lord ' s Day into a Jewish Sabbath , of countenancing informers against petty criminals , or evon confining th « ir exertions to the destruction of the haunts of
debauchery , such societies , it appears to me , would be better employed in rescuing every child within their reach from a state of ignorance ; in endeavouring to infuse a spirit of sobriety amongst the poor ; in devising and ^ in ex . « cutiog plans for the encouragement of frugality and decency of
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appearance among females in the lower orders of the community ; in collecting and dispersing tracts , calculated to shew the criminality and the danger of all unlawful
desires , and to teach the art of selfgovernment ; in striving to impress , upon the minds of those in high life , and upon heads of families in
general , the alarming consequences which must follow from the present dissipation of manners , and the ceaseless round of gaieties , by which the comfort and the
calmness of domestic life are so aenerally interrupted or destroyed : in short , in diffusing the knowledge of duty , supplying as much as
possible the means of discharging it , and providing encouragements to enter and to pursue the path of virtue . What good man could withhold his applause or his cooperation from associations formed
upon such principles , and occupied in such labours of benevolence ?' I am , Dear Sir , Very faithfully Yours . "
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Address of the Deputies and Deh egates of the Protestant Dissenters , 179 % . At a meeting of the Deputies and Delegates frSm the Protestant
Dissenters of England and Wales , appointed to obtain the Repeal of the Test Laws , at the King ' s-Head Tavern , in the Poultry , London , on the 30 th day of May , 1792 :
Resolved unanimously , That the chairman be desired to sign the following Address , and that the same be printed . ADDUXSS TO TUB PROTESTANT DISSENTERS OF ENGLAND AND WALES . We , the Deputies and Dele-
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Address of the Deputies , 17 <} 2 , 415
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/31/
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