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Holland and Erskine , for tbeir able , zealous and efficient resistance to the intended Act , and for their manly declarations and unanswerable reasonings in behalf of religion * liberty . VilJ . That the assistance
generously afforded to the Protestant Dissenters by his grace the Duke of Norfolk , the Most Noble the Marquis of Lansdown and the Right Honourable Earls Moira , Lauderdale and Rosslyn , in the tipper House of Parliament , ought to be remembered and
acknowledged with lively gratitude . IX . That the declaration of our venerable sovereign , on his accession , his uniform care ct to
maintain the toleration inviolable , " the fact that during his reign no legislative provisions and decisions have restricted , and that some have extended , this toleration , and the well-known charac * ter and enlarged views of the illustrious Prince Regent , give us the cheering expectation that religious freedom will continue to be
protecied and advanced by the house of Brunswick . X . That warml y attached to a constitution under which we enjoy , through the Divine Goodness , the free exercise of religious worshi p , we will use our utmost legal
endeavours to frustrate every future attempt to limit the provisions of the Act of Toleration , which has been so justly and decisivel y recognized as the palladium of the liberties of Protestant Dissenters .
XL That these resolutions be signed by the Chairman ^ and printed in Aris ' s Birmingham Gazette and in the Morning Chronicle , Statesman and Courier . James Hews Bransby , Chairman .
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Resolved , —That the thanks of the meeting be given to the chair . man , for his able and attentive conduct in the chair .
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Resolutions of the Wesley an Methodist Ministers y at Liverpool . At a Meeting of the Regular Methodifet Ministers , in the con . nection of the late Rev , John Wesley , stationed at present in the Manchester District , ami as . sembled at Liverpool on Thursday , May 23 , 1811 .
It was unanimously resolved , I . That liberty of conscience , comprehending the freedom of public assemblies for religious worship and instruction , in such forms , and under such teachers as men shall for themselves ap . prove , is the inalienable right of
all men ; and that in the peaceable exercise of this right , as well as of the further right of peaceably com * municating their own religious views and opinions to all who arc willing to hear them , they are not justly amenable to the authority of the civil magistrate .
IL That we consider these rights as having been solemnly recognised and legally secured to British subjects , by the letter and spirit of the statute , commonlj called The Toleration Act ; a
statute to which tens of thousands have long looked with gratitude ; and which is , in our op inion , a
most essential part , and one onw strongest bulwarks of our g lorious constitution , as established by law at the period of the Revolution in
1688 . , III . That the facilities winch have been thus afforded for religious worship and instruction ha ^ powerfully contributed to the iw-
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426 Toleration Act .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/42/
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