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-- " ¦ ¦ '"* ¦ * " - $ Manchester Presbyterian Meeting tb « # utflnifl&l &ttaiteriig « W | £ eetmg of ^ rt&b ytetfah Ministers irv district of Manchester v * as held at Hyde , at the Chtfpcl of the Rev . Mr . Brooks . The < Rev ; Samuel Packer , of Stockport , intro-4 \ K £ & the services ; and " the Rev . Mr . © afies , ofOhewbent , preached from z Cor . ii . 17 * Thtf attendance at the ch ^ - ;^ l was highly gratifying to the friends of the Institution , creditable to the con-^ ft ^ ation of Hyde chapel , and to the fiierids of rational Christianity in the ceigfefcourhobd May their example be always followed ! About forty ministersiandday gentlemen afterwards dined
Jogetfcer ,. It ! would $ ive the writer great plea-; sure to enter into minuter details of & ^ meetingst if the present short notice dtd not appear sufficient to inform Ac , friends of rational Christianity , that Hsirieads in this neighbourhood axe not ^! 0 Ci € np to the support and propagati-$ aof wh * t they deem religions truth .
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^< A ^ ifiriter a a explanation of wscftii Presbyterian , applied to the « Jttteb of the Quarterly Meeting , J ^^^ knger of giving offence to any «* W 4 al . ^ Thi § ter m is applicable to ^ fcotTHi a ' ceount of any characteristic ijro « 3 *? whitlf we hold , or because we mp * -lie .:. « yttem- of church-discipline J ^ ted ky it , but solely as an appel-•«« ' ? tf kmg standing by which the wc 8 lcf ? s have fceen known , and which . V ^« ttspettable to many from long ^ P ^^ tibdi Some , looking on the term ™ a ^ erian is of too vagu e and gene-^^ iW H ^ rr ,. have proposed to&ubsti-™ to * t of Unitarian ^ and against this TO&Ji * perhaps , no available objection wLTl ; ' ""^ that ia > : tfe * t 8 O * n mem-*»» W Quiarteriy Meeting dislike it , S !?? 1116 * i U 8 tl 5 > th » t Christian liber-JL vj ^ 'j ^^ ^ nen o ne man denominates iT&jl y * » f » e-toVhkh he objects ^^ wditois , the members of the £ ~* f ly M ^ tiag arc at perfect Jiberty ij ^ wgc what denomination t hey like . gy *?* e *« r . Kresbvicrian ' Arian . or
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Hanc verdam petimiisque damusque ^ iritis-&im <* But in their associated '' capacity they would act inconsistently with the principles of Christian liberty , well understood , if they imposed upon any one member a yoke [ a name ] which he was
not able to bear . Why should a name become a bone of contention among those who are equally , according to their opportunities , endeavouring to restore our Christian profession to its primitive simplicity and purity ?
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Intolerance * The public papers have lately brought before us several instances of intolerance , which we think it useful to record in order to admonish the friends of Religious Liberty in England that , though they lately succeeded in repelling an aggression upon their liberties , they did not thereby lay . the spirit of Persecution .
The legislature of Jamaica have revived a statute similar to that which they enacted , Ju ne 15 , 1807 , and which was exposed and reprobated in our Second Volume , pp . 561 , sto . By the constitution of the island , we believe , the Legislature cannot pass any permanent
law without the assent of the King in council ; but their enactments stand good for one year , without regard to the Royal Sanction . The statute of 1807 was put down by the liberality of the King and Council , and , after twelve months , Toleration was again enjoyed in Jamaica ,
On the 14 th of November , i 8 ro , however , the Jamaicans framed a new persecuting taw , which is , we suppose still in force , but which we have no doubt will be , if it have not already been , negatived at home . By these annual fulminations
of bigotry the slave-holder , may y ^ t , in spite of the liberal policy of our Government , harrass the consciences of religi * ous men and banish religious Liberty from the horrid abodes of slavery ; judging " , not unwisely , that she is an unfit guest for such mansions .
By this new statute Dissenting worship is in effect proscribed . It is referred to the discretion of the Juttices of Peace to grant or refuse licences to
• We ask no liberty v ^ rhich we will not allow .
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Intelligence . —Manchester Presbyterian Meeting . 633
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 633, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/57/
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