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, ] V . That the above resolutions be printed in the Methodist Magazine , and circulated generally throughout the Methodist connection . Signed , by order of the Meeting , Joseph Benson , Chairman . Joseph Butterworth , Sec .
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REFLECTIONS ON LORD SIDMOUTH ' S BILL .
« The principles of impartial liberty form the prevailing character of the present age , and are , in a manner , uniyersal amongst the protestant dissenters . Liberty , religious liberty ESPECIALLY , IS THEIR IDOL ; in their attachment to which , for the most fart , they are more tenacious ^ than they are in their affection to any peculiar distinguishing tenetsy which divide them from the churchy or from one another . " Dr . Furneaux's Letters to M ~ r . Justice Blackstone , Let . vi . znd ed . 8 vo . p-189 . u All the difference in the conduct of men who equally value their liberty , will be in the time and manner of opposing incroachments upon it . The
man of a strong and enlarged mind , will always oppose these things in the beginning , when only the resistance can have any effect ; but the weak , the timid and short-sighted , will attempt nothing , till the chains are rivetted and resistance is too late . ' *
Dr . Priestley ' s View of the Principles and Conduct of the Protestant Dissent-« rs , p . 66 . No parliamentary measure affecting religion , of late years , so much agitated the Public mind as the Bill proposed by Lord
Siditiouth ; but happily , neither the character , talents and influence of his Lordship , nor the temper and political circumstances of the 9 ge allowed the agitation to continue long or to produce ' any other effect than that of arousing the Dissenters to an enquiry into
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to the Quarterly Meeting . New Chapel , City Road , December 30 th , 1802 . We do highly approve of these resolutions , and do agree and are determined to adopt them , and to enforce them throughout the whole connection /'
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Reflections on Lord Sidmouth ' s Bill . 4- $ 5
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their principles and to a manly avowal of them . The common sense , as well as liberality of the country , no less than the spirit of self-defence amongst the Dis * senters , was provoked into op , position to a measure which was introduced under the most flimsy pretexts , and would evidently lead to the most mischievous consequences . In Parliament , the tried friends of liberty opposed the Bill , with their accustomed eloquence and more than their usual energy ; the Government would not risk their credit , by attaching it to any thing so obnoxious ; and the noble projector had the mortification to see his favorite scheme suffocated under a weight
of petitions , such as had never before loaded the table of the House of Lords . The triumph of the Dissenters was shared by the enlightened friends of the constitution , who considered '' the Toleration ^ as one of the pillars of our free state ; by the advocates of peace , who were alarmed at the bare possibility of irritating the consciences and alienating the affections of more than two millions of men , not a little respectable from their intelligence , activity and virtue ; and by a coru
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/47/
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