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fceyoncf the existing laws ^ as to regard the religious ar irreligious pro fession of a peaceable citizen , as no concern of the civil magistrate .
On this point , if I understand the late debate , the r . oble author . of the Bill was at issue with the Lords Stanhope- Holland and Erskine . The first appeared to speak of the Toleration Act , p lainly , but not unjustly ; Lord H . treated tbe Act , as better things
are too often treated , according to the poet , pr obit as laudatur et slget ; but Lord E . was surely ironical if he named it the pal indium of religious liberty . The three
noble Lords , however ^ agreed in ably maintaining , after Locke , claims , as Li > rd S . justly rvmaiked , " utterly inconsistent with the meaning of the Tolen tion Act . *'
HisLordship , on the contrary , declared Ins object " to b to tollow up the principle of the Toleration laws , " - which certainly never designed to take th <* prof * ssion
ofreiigion from under the coniroul of the civil magistrate . In this connection , ! was surprised to find Lord S . ¦ offended by one of the resolutions of the Deputies from the Piottsfant Dissenters in and about London , in which he is very justly charged with having designed to abridge such religious liberty as I have described , and which he himself opposed in the debate ; such a liberty as Locke asserted in the work , which he might have strictly ^ lled , Letters against Toleration .
I lately examined the Familiar betters of Locke , to discover his sentiments concerning the Act ot toleratio n , and found a reference to the subject only in two of his ** tin letters to Lirnborch In the
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first , dated 12 M . rch lfiSP , he coiumunicfttes lo Irs trie , 1 I * he proposed mtr . sui * s rhen . ! i > ru ^ iug in Part lament tor ci- ' mprrhrnsion and ixdu ' . gn . 'ce , cwpUnimg the terms , yu-i adding itat the episcopal ch ' i ^ y were n 'Ljiiendly to eirher . On am lax a vcl > tt let a hwc
Jutunt s ni , Vex dum , scio hoc saltern atn £ io cltruoi cpiscojij' ' r / n his uliisque rebus quce // ic agu ? t * ur nun htultUdnjavcre * 'i he Xci of Toleration passtwl tie 24 th IN-Iay , and the sec ? nd i . ifiir < -i Lt > cke to
Limburch Uj /«> n this ul ) j < ci is dated 6 Jun , lOfti ) . It encfosed an auihenisc c » i > v f ihe Act tor I * J their common fitted Le CU • .., to whom Limburch is rek-iid . to
understand how far it . ^ pro ^ i ions for religious liberty extended . Lfgem tie tolcrtmtia snncilam ad Dm . Le LUrc mini . qn <» inttrprete intelliges qi . o \ isqur t k £ t /> Uitut Acre libtnaSj foi Liinbou-li t ^ > ears not to have acoimed 1 lit km *! h
language . r I tiib * » highly | robable iromaletiv r muei *< . u > r in ti \*> . corrt > j ? ond « nee . v * hi « 'li Locke having vvricten in Ivei eli , excuses himself in a Iiftl'in ><» -t&ciipt for not having use ii that iiin ^ ua ^ e bt cau ^ e he liad o ( v caM ( -n lo write in haste .
You uiil . i h pe , acquit me of a wish to di ( uii'ber your pnges ivith a langua ^ not ^ meKilly r / iad , if I now cui . ie a large , pa * t ot this si'Coiui let er , fsf ' -ec'ially as boine pa ^> siige ^ appear U > nje opejj lo such a tiiir aAiia * a . « iwjm . ; d as Locke
would have been vain > ujl the jfirst to encourage . " J oieiannaivj a pud nos jam tandem ) e ^< siabiiiUnn tt ante haec audiisse , nulius ciubno * Is / on ea forsan latiludjne cjii ^ tu et tui similes , vt-ii ct > ine ambitions vei invidia CIn iblMi . i , optarent . bed aliquid ebt piudne tenus . Uis
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Sfeich of English Protestant Persecution . 525
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 525, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/13/
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