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inost reason to congratulate you , Sir , 1 To whose mind the victory you hare gatiird over the higotry and the igno * ranee of our ancestors must furnish a most gratifying reflection ; or ourselves , < m -the encouragement which iaij discussion and an honest declaration of
truth have received ; or the great body of professing Chitstians , who owe to you a spiritual blessing whose value time t annot destroy : but we are sure that we ought to congratulate our country and our government , because , through your agency , a blot has been 'wiped off our national character , and
• a public act of our legislature has declared that it is the duty of every Christian to search the scriptures , to enquire ^ br himself , and to avow the result , - whatever it may be , of his serious enquiry after " the truth as it is in Jesus . " Though your late successful attempt kto promote the interests of true
religion demands our especial thanks , because you have removed out of our path that fcC fear of man which bringeth ^ snare , " even to serious and upright minds ^ we beg , sir , also to acknowledge the repeated" obligations under which we have lain to you * as well in the character of Chairman to the
Commit' tee of * he Three Denominations , as of 'Xhe enlightened and the steady friend of Civil and Religious Liberty in the House of Commons *—and we pray the Al--ttwghty to recompence you with what
will be to you the sweetest reward , the conviction that asa man and a Christian you have dose your duty . Signed fcy thi > Minister and Members 1 > of the U nit aria n Congregation , Plymouth .
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Jdanchestcr Quarterly Meeting . The autmnal Quarterly Meeting of Ministers , generally denominated Presbyterian , in Manchester and its vicinity , w . as held at Plat , near Manchester , at the chapel of the Rev . Mr . "Whifelegg . The Rev . J . Holland introduced the service , vice the Rev . J .
Bealey , whose recent death is a subject of 4 eep regret in , this neighbourhood ; Hnd , tr \ e Rev . Mr . Aspland preached frqra a Cpr . *• ?• The meeting vias gratified to hear that Mr , A upland in-* cnda to publish the sermon . About twenty min sters and thirty lay ; gentleir . en returnedjto Manchester xo > flmner , W 4 / SW . ^ J ^ W . ., "! ' ^ jnannur suitable to the objects of the association ,
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and highly gratifying to the genttemeir present . Among otfcer appropriate 8 en , timents , the health of Wrn . Smith Esq . M . P » for Noiwich , was druakx and the following resolution unanimously parsed : Resolved , That the thanks of thi ? Association , consisting tjoth of niin steri and laymen , in the neighbourhood df
Manchester , be given to Vvm . Smith Esq . oue of the representatives in parliament for the city of Norwich , for his unwearied and successful exertions in procuring the repeal of the several statutes directed against those who impugn the doctrine of the Trinity , and
for the encouragement which his success affords us to hope , that the time is not tar distant , when , all ^ penal laws in reference to religious opinions bring abolished , the word toleration and the spirt of intolerance shall become equally obsolete .
The Christmas quarterly meeting will be held at the Unitarian chapel in Mosely Street , Manchester . Mr . Robberds will introduce the service , £ nd Mr . A Hard will be the ; , preacher . W . X "
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Oldbury Double Lecture . On Tuesday , Sept . 14 , 1 &T 3 , i » as holden at Oldbury * In Shropshire , the Annual Meeting of Dissenting Ministers which is distinguished by the name of
" The Oldbury Double Xecture . " The Rev . Timothy Davis , of Coventry , prayed . The first sermoo was preached by the Rev . — Small of Coseley , from Phil . i . 27 . last clause . u That ye stand fast in one spirit , with one rnind ,
striving together for the faith of the gospel . " The second discourse , delivered by the Rev . James Hews Bran ^ by , of Dudley was grounded on 1 Thess . ii . 13 . * ' For this cause also thank we God without ceasing , because when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us , yc received it hot as the word of men , but
( as it is in truth ) the word of God . The service , in which singing of psalms had its proportional share , * v as closed with prayer by the Ia 6 t preacher . The audience was respectable and attentive . The sermons were replete with j « s * and
liberal sentiments , clothed in strong and pointed language and adapted to the original design of the meet ing , which was instituted"VitEireTcrchcc to tKe case of tfc « n ^ Wj «| i ^ fe ^ da : ( fey-t | ic . Act oi Uniformity m XW 2 9 ma kiycs » V
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089 Intelligence—Oldbury Double LettuM .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 686, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/62/
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