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rages against the Methodists ^ iqdeecL but they are not therefore
Methodists . It is the violation of the rights of conscience which alarms them , and it matters not
in whose person the violation is committed . The tradesman near Reading , fined for praying in his own house , may not be a very wise or a very important man ; but if the penalty had been enforced on
the least wise arid least important man in the kingdom , it ought to have equally aroused the jealousy of tie Dissenters . Obsta principits is the proper motto for the opposers of persecution . Give up to the invaders of conscience the
Cowtry Dissenter ' s " frivolous ' cases * aacl they will ask no more Jt&iy little encroachments that ihegfaices of liberty are taken dawJU . Does the Country Dis ~ scoter require to be told that ( here is nothing little , nothing unimportant , when a right is to ie ^ asserted or oppression rented ?
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\ Vesleyan Methodists have already prepared , and circulated throughout their numerous Societies , a history of the recent glorious and successful contest : the Comnrtittee
at the London Tavern have a similar work , on a large scale , in the press , edited by a gentleman of talents and spirit ; and the Hull Dissenters * have here presented the world with an account of
their " Proceedings / ' which would be entitled to peculiar praise if , happily , the virtue of their breth - ren throughout the kingdom had not rendered it impossible for any one town or district to earn a title
to distinction . From the speeches delivered at the first meeting at Hull , we shall make a few brief extracts . Rev , G . LEE . — It had been said that Lord Sidmouth did not wish to meddle with liberty of Conscience . I have heard the assertion , repeatedly
this day . No assertion can betray a greater ignorance of the subject of It , than this * If the subjecting onr ministers , those whom we esteem as best able to conduct our public devotion ' s , to the approval of the civil magistrate , be riot an infringement on this liberty , it will be difficult to shew what is .
If the surrounding us with diracultie * in the choice of such persons , so as to render it almost , nay absolutely impossible to procure a minister , be not such an infringement , then there is no meaning in words . If the compulsion
of any sect to relinquish their whole system , and in fact to deprive them of the labours of those under whose religious care alone they sit content , be not ihfr ^ ngement , then , no such thing can exist . "—p . 4 .
Rev . W . Severn . — " Contemplating the pernicious effects that Would be produced by tMs bill parsing into a law , both to < hir ministers and churches , I am astomsbedi A host
of evils , incalculable in number and magnitude , rise up with threatening aspects before mf terrified im& £ irtation . Iek ^ ect iri tes * tbftn a *? ea r that some of oar pastor * and preach *
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Review *—Proceedings of the Dissenters at HulL 505
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ibART . III . Proceedings of the DisstijttersinHully ont he Introduction into Parliamenty by Lord Sidmouth * of a Bill purporting to amend and explain the Toleration Act . Hull printed by M . W * CarraU and told at the Vestries of the respective Chdpels . 8 vo . pp . 24 .
It is tdvus a cheering circumstance that the Dissenters , almost Whoitti an ) exception , feel alike , feel strongly and feel well , on the subject of the late attempt to restrict the ., ** Lifiefty of Kophesyln 8 ;'* and we rejoice to see that their- noble exertions are in
Vftnous Hvays to be recorded , as a laming * o intolerant $ ta | es * apn ***! an encouragement to * the ; friends of religious liberty . The
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 503, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/55/
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