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    provided they give to the govern - ment under which they live , an adequate security for their conduct a ^ subjects . *¦ Having said thus . much , I request leave of your Lordbhips to advert for a few minutes to two or three topics , which , though in some respects ofaper-onal nature , are , notwithstanding , very intimately connected with the subject

    now unckr consideration . —It has been repeatedly and publicly object * d to me , and sometimes with a degree of c ' -aix-mss and a perity entirely unprovoked < n my p . ut , that I have , inconsiderately and rashly , vtiiHind to differ in opinion , not only fn-m those with whom I have the honour of sifting oq the sam" bench , but also from the two Uhivt rsitits , and the great body of 'he established clergy . — That I differ from those immecii . » * • i j ounct is

    ateiy ar me c < rfaimy nue ; and it is equally true that I do so with sincere regret . No affecta - tion of singularity , no ldve of contradiction , can induce any man of common sense , to dissent willingly

    from wise and good men of his own profession . —There is neither pleasure nor profit attatched to £ Uch a line of conduct : conviction therefore can alone account for it , ft is , however , some con . solation to me , that if I dissent fVoiii them , I agree With many ot those exalted characters and eminent writers , to whom they , as well as myself , arc in the habit of looking up with respect and veneration , and whose authority I shall be happy to shelter myself under ,

    if your lordships will pardon the apparent pedantry into which I ttiay be ted by so doing- I lay , "ttiy lords , no claim whatever to rigiaality—not an argument have

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    t ever urged , either in writing or in speaking ; hardly an expression have 1 made use of , which is not to be nir-t with in the writings of Hoadley and of Locke ; iri the Li ben v of Prophesyi ng ^* b } Jeremy Taylor , in the Ireii i * cum / ' of Sullin ^ fleet , and in almost every page of t but great * mart Grotius , particularly in his" Voturtt pro Pace Eeclctiasticd ;'* and iri &

    morr * striking manner perhapis thark any where , in a very curious ahd . inuiisiing coiropondence which . took place between a pious and learned prelate of \ hv Church of Ei ^ huul , and tl ) e « -ccl < siristical

    histcrian Dupin , respecting a pro * jecfed union of the Gnllicari church wish the Church of' Kng « . land . The pnlafe to whoui I alludo is auhbishop Wake , vvhb ' se attachment to the Church of

    England was never call d in question , and yet in his last letterto his celebrated correspondent * speaking of the religious M-rU ' fs bt the Catholics he has the following

    remarkable expressions , whifch . ( with your LonUhips' permission ) I will give you in his own Words t — - ' In dogmxztihus ( -ays this tibte friend to our ecclesiastical rst&'bw

    lishment ) prout a tc c&nditte pro * ponuntvr , von itdmodunt dissen ti * mus j- ^—in rcgivnne ccelestastico minus ; in fu / tdainehtalibu ? , $ i * oe doctrinam sivt disciplinam species ^ vix ownino ** ' *

    Tbib is perhaps going 21 gfeat way , but be that as it may , yout Lordships will , I am confident ^ agree with me in thinking that the

    * " In received opinions , according tf * jour candid exposition of them , we d <* tioi greatly diiter- — less iA ecclesiastical government—scarcely at all m fahd «^ mentals , either with regard to dacttkfti or to discipline *"

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    Speech of the Bishop of Norwich , on the Catholic Petition ? 5 $ f

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 707, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/3/