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by capricious examinations and yexatious delays : —and ^ that , by establishing a principle of interference in matters of conscience , it may become a precedent tor future and still more fatal experiments against our religious
liberties . VII . That the restrictions proposed-in the said Bill are as unnecessary as they would be injurious : because the instances of
abuse , on which they are professedly grounded , have been few in number ; because the recurrence of such abuse , has been , in part , already prevented by some recent legislative enactments ; and
because the methodists in particular have explicitly prohibited ( by a regulation which they voluntarily adopted in the year 1803 ) the application of licenses , procured under the Act of Toleration , to the purpose of obtaining exemption from military or parochial duties by any persons in connection with them , who are not wholly employed in the Christian ministry . VIII . That the proposed Bill is , in our * judgement , radically objectionable ; being , as it seems to us erroneous in its principle .
unconstitutional in its spirit , and certainly calamitous , if passed , in its operation : —that no modification of it can reconcile us to its adoption : —and that , as religious
rights are justly deemed , b y' a very great body of the people of England , to be their best and dearest rights , to which they nro most tremblingly alive , the probable
consequences of any measure , H > y which those rights appear to be infringed , are , at this eventful period , most earnestly to be deprecated .
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IX . That we heartily approve oT the intention which is generally entertained by our societies , con . gregations and friends , throug hout this district , to prepare immediate petitions to the legislature against the bill now pending .
X . That we cherish the higher confidence in the wisdom and justice of Parliament , as to the success of our petitions against soob . noxious a measure ; but that , should our expectations be un .
happily disappointed , we shall esteem it to be our indispensable duty to appeal , for the protection of our lights , in the lust instance , to the liberal principles and legal prerogatives of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent ; encouraged by
his gracious declaration that it is his resolution to deliver up the constitution unaltered" ( and consequently the Toleration inviolat e ) li \ u his Royal Father ; " and fully persuaded that this illustrious prince
will never sanction a system ot restriction , so marked by innovation , so contrary to the tolerant spirit of his Majesty , and so productive of dissatisfaction and
distress to no inconsiderable proportion of his most loyal and most faithful subjects . XL That these resolutions be printed , and extensively circulated ; and that copies be respectfully transmitted to the deputies in
London , appointed to guard the civil rights of the Dissenters , to the Committee of Protestant Dissenters , appointed at the meeting lately held at the London Tavern , and to the Protestant dissenting minister *
in this county and its vicinity . XII . That a subscri ption be unmediately opened , or co llection * made , in every circuit ot tw district , to defray the expenses 01
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428 Toleration Act *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/44/
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