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TOLERATION ACT.
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tOO Toleration Act .
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Suffolk Resolutions . At a numerous and respectable meeting of the ministers and other deputies from the- congregations belonging to a BenevolextSoctety for the Relief
of Necessitous Widows and Orphans of Protestant Dissenting Ministers , &c . in the county of Suffolk ^ hel d by public advertisement , at the King ' s
Head Inn , in Stowmarket , June 18 , 1811 . Nathaniel Byles , Esq . in the chair .
The business of the Society being closed , the following Resolutions were moved and unanimously sanctioned . Resolved , That in the opinion of this meeting , the right of every man to worship God in that manner which he believes will be most
acceptable to him > a natural right ; and that ir the exercise of it he is accountable to no human authority . / Resolved , That if the bill which was lately introduced by Lord Viscount Sidmouth into the House of Lords , had passed into a law , it would have been an encroach-
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ment upon this right ; that it would have withdrawn the protection which every peaceablje and loyal subject is justified in expecting from the civil magistrate , from great numbers of deserving members of society , and of truly con . scientious Christians ; that it
would have exposed them to the operation of certain statutes which were enacted in times of great re . ligious animosity , bigotry and intolerance ; statutes which are not less unjust in their principle , than they would be severe and cruel in their execution ; that it would have sapped the foundation of religious freedom , and have placed every candidate for admission into the Dissenting Ministry , in *' pendence on the pleasure of a
Quarter-sessions . Resolved , That for these reasons , this meeting are deeply atfected with that unspeakable good- ! ness of God , by whose Providence the intended measure has been
prevented ; nor can they f orbear to express their earnest hope tba the remembrance of an interposi - tion so remarkable , will be car - ¦ fully cherished as a motive w
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Drive the rude jargon from his bead , And grant him , bounteous , in its stead All the extatic bliss of life , Wak'd at the magic sound of Wife ; All the dear recompense of joy That waits a parent ' s Vilest employ—To urge the loii ' ring steps of youth O ' er the rough road that leads to truth . Grant what the selfish cannot know , What social passions can bestow , While Virtue ' s liberal hand supplies The Funds that shall for ever rue . CIVIS .
Toleration Act.
TOLERATION ACT .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 490, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/42/
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