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niade , the first in the case of the celebrated El wall , against whom an indictment was framed under this act : but when it came to trial both judge and jury united in scouting it , and casting some
severe reflections upon the persecutors . This attempt was made by membersof the established church ; the threat of enforcing the Act was held out by some Dissenters , having at their bead a Dissenting minister , who indicted , two or three
years ago , a minister at the Cambridge assizes , exposing themselves to a jury of members of the Chqrch of England , who were struck with astonishment at their persecuting spirit , and threw out their bilJL Such being the case , it may t * e doubted whether the Act deserved
any notice . An old maxirn , Malum bene positum nc rn&veto , might be applied to tbis case . The Act itself as long as it stood in the Statute Book , was a monument of the fears of the Trinitarians for the
validity of their cause , rather than an object of any dread to the Unitarians . But a popular whites has taken up the argument ,, and he resists the repeal o £ tUe Apt , and lays down as a basis , that he who does not believe Christ to be God
is not a Christian . Tbe slraijet of his writing is , however , to thiftfcw the utmost contempt on the doctrine of the Trinity and the Trirjjitarians will not be much pleased with their supportec . He ia for no
partial repeals . " t am , " says he , " for a general Act ,, perqaittiug every wi-an to say < wr write what he pleases upon the subject of retigion , on I wish the . whole thing to remain , what it now is * '
Eveny Unitarian * would' willingly accede to bib general act ; for me cannot desire for ourselves , what w » wouty not grapfc to others ;
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and we the more willingly would do it , p . s we are not in frar , like the Trinitarians , that our cause should be injured by investigation . Whatever may be tho laws of any country , he is not guided by the spirit of the gopel , but by tbe spirit of this world , who takes advantage of them to . deprive his neighbour of any civil right , or to subject him to any pain or penalty on account of his religion-The bill relative to
excommunication is now in its progress through the house , on whose part there does not seem to be any disposition to inquire into the nature of the spiritual courts by whom It is exercised , nor the cases to which it is applied . There was an
intention , io tbe reign of Edward the Sixth , to set these courts aside altogether ; but it is singular , that they have maintained their ground from their being * in a manner , out
of sight , and the causes tried in them seldom becoming matter of public notoriety , A bill brought in by a judge cannot be expected to enter into the general merits or demerits of the case . Little more
is clone than to change the penalty of excommunication into that of con turn acity ; for the wiit is to ruii de cGntwmace capiendo , instead of fife excommunicato capiendo . It is not impossible , however , that this fcaCt may lead to farther investigation .
A singular and very welUde > - serv ^ d mark of respect has been paid by the town / of Leicester to its late- teacher Mr * Robinsoul , testifying the high sense entertained by the town , of his merits a&ja
citizen ^ a subject , and a Christian minkteK . A resolution was paaped at a public meetin g * in which ; tbe Mayor presided / { or the . eroectioj * of a awrj&qeiitj %
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State of Public Affairs , 353
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/69/
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