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toy " -a supposed resurrection at the last day * " Perhaps , he adopts [ he scheme defended , with some variety of argument , by Ur . Flein . in cr Mr . Cappe-and a writer in Thcol . Itepos . 1770 ( it . £ 46 ) . la the mean time , I regret that your correspondent , N . L . I , by his long silence , appears to have abandoned his purpose of communicating some account of the writings of two Christian mated . alibis . HOMOGENEUS .
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Salters' Hall Fifth of November Sermon . London , Sept % 1 , 1811 . Sir , I have been for several years concerned , as a Dissenter ^ on reading the advertisement of the
annual sermon at Salters' Hall in commemoration of the 5 th pi November ; not because I have any reason to believe that the sermons that have been preached ^ have been in any way improper , but because there seems no good but much evil in keeping alive the
memory of a conspiracy which no religious denomination now justifies , and which no religious principles now professed can be alleged to countenance . Popery is a different system from what bore that name in the reion of
the first James ; and Papists are Ho longer persecutors . They did r to persecution , and so did tie 'Rofciimed , so did the Puritans ; but we have all grown wiser and better , and it is unjust and foolish to reproach one another
with the misdeeds of our fore - fathers . All sects are approach-JI each other in the . spirit of chari ty , and it is high time that etistonys buil t on prejudices should ^ to be mamutiiK'tL wfaen ther
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prejudices themselves are fast falling away . Ttfe Church of England has a Form of Prayer for the Fifth of November , but it is not generally used , and the clergy , 1 believe , rarely preach about the meaning of it : the Dissenters , it is to be hopedy will not be singular in
perpetuating religious animosity . At the present moment , when Roman Catholics come before us as people oppressed for con . science * sake , and when we see them opposed by none but such as would oppose any extension of religious liberty , it becomes Protestant Dissenters to exercise a generous forbearance towards them , and not to hoist in their sight the flag of defiance and to proclaim their alliance with the advocates of intolerance .
In Roman Catholic countries abroad , Protestant Dissenters are for the most part treated with indulgence ; will the Dissenters here be backward to imitate th ^ charitable example , and to return good for good , blessing for bless - ing ? The English and Irish Rjo -v man Catholics are their fellow Dissenters , having , in regard of the rights of conscience , a com
mon cause with them ; and if ever Protestant Dissenters gain their full liberty , it will be in consequence of the emancipation of
the Roman Catholic Dissenters , who are better united , more powerful and more of » a political body . Whatever retards the emancipation of the latter , hinders the
enfranchisement ofthe fomjier . Shall the Dissenters , theiv any clanger put a bar in ^ heir own way and a stumbling-block > in the way of their brethren . ? i ¦ ,: ¦ Some ; gentLemed whose joamrs
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Suiters' Halt Fifth &f November Sermon . 54 !
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 541, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/29/
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