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fi € * gh * ba * i * vs rights , the law , as it stan d * , is sufficient to restrain Or to punish him . * ' If / ' said the wise statesman ^ abave ^ meixtioned , ' ¦? a company of paupers choose a pauper for their instructor , what should hinJer them r or why should they be prevented ?" ¦; -An uneducated mail may , in soiae instances , be the fittest teacher of the uneducated . The Cornish mL ners could not have been civilised by any other instructors thansuch as Lord Sid-mouth's J 5 ill would
have put down . The plea of ignorance and unfitness is , after all , a mere pretence ; the more ignorant and unfit our ministers are , the better will our adversaries be
pleased ; it is , in reality * - the competence of our teachers to interest and engage the affections of the people -which alarms the hierar * chy ; and hence , wq are verily persuaded , arose this monument of I * ord Sidmouth ' s care for the
Cbupcji of England / Let -not the regular Dissenters be deceived by compliments reflecting ill nature , upon their irregular brethren ;
they may rest assured that the legislators who would suppress the Methodists owe them no good will ; for to a true churchman , the difference between the learned
minister of Essex Street and the illiterate orator of the Tabernacle is as nothing ; while the difference between a regularly bred and can . omcaJly appointed priest and i every dissenting minister is as great as that between the-empiric and the ; licentiate in medicine . The and usu
£ 1 ;^ o ^ ignorance rpation ag ^ i ^ st d issenting teachers of any Cltts ^ is ; fthe ^ meye syiab dl of faction ; it might be easily loNprted ; for no dissenter would have long to look for ministers well versed
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* 00 Kefiectiom oti JLord Sidmovth * * BUL
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in all boooks bat one , the Bjbfe and master * of all wisdom bat that which is from ab < yve— ---mini sters deriving their succession from the fishermen af ( Galilee , who yet are called roasters and fathers , aod who lord it over God * s heritage .
Ignorant as the dissenters may be reputed , they Jiave all learned that first . principle of free government , vwhich LQrd Sid . mouth ' s BUI convinces us that
philosophers have taught in vain with regard to some men ; viz . the sacredness of conscience to Almighty God : ^ nd nothing -so much aurpriscd and aroused them as that a new rdiigioias law ^ should be
proposed to the . British legialature in the presentd ^ yy s ^ hich repealed no oae disqualifying and fenal statute , and which contam&l new
Kestrietions and exclusions . ^ liey objec ? tfto the principle oi § nyhu . man decree in affairs of religion ; and tb ^ iigh they do nol ^ ref ^ sethe scanty immunities whieh their
ministers are offered by tfee state as a poor compensation foi ^ the rights of ttabudi tbe whole body is deprived , let the ^ not be taunted with their acceptance of tiietri . -w
fl i og boon , i for they are ready ^ e believe ^ to surrender up all their privileges ^ if the stale will with . draw its restrictions ^ and sweep from tbe statute-book the lumber
of spiritual legislation . AH that they d ^ ire of government is ^ to let them i alone * . The union of th ^ Pi ^ senter ^ » opposition to | l . ord Sidtnooth ' s Bill , was the true cause of their
success ; , and ^^ notj ) king can & *> & clearly shew - | be- opprtjssiveoess ot the Bill than that it should . have WOTtobiteap oite # rki mat&wW scattered aad repulsive particle of disaenu All men of •» deft 0 "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 500, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/52/
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