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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS
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bold forth freely the . blood and righteousness of him , that cleansith fropi all theguilj ; of sin—oj ^ d the robe that covers all the remains of sin . Rev'd father , God bless you—abundant happyness ^ Comfort and sucksess attend bouthyou
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Essay on the Relation between Protestant Nonconformity and nonconformity to the World . Sept . 30 , 1813 . E . K f& XO ^ fX S BK Sicft .
The attempt to produce unity of faith and worship by means of compulsion , would seem to be one of the wildest measures which ever originated in the mind of man . It is easy to perceive that such a scheme , even when most
successful , can reach no further than the language and the conduct , and cannot fetter the thoughts . Tho result of it may be temporary concord in igno ~ ranee or hypocrisy ; but its final influence cannot be auspicious even la the cause which it is
designed to serve . It can only promote some present ; some momentar }* benefit . In oo age , except in one in which it would be needless , an age of total darkness and barbarism , could it answer its intended purpose . *
We may well be astonished that a » y efforts of this kind should have been made since the revival of learning in Europe . But His .
tory records the fact * During the reign of perhaps the most profligate monarch who has filled the English throne , a pretended zeal for the honour and welfare of the ecclesiastical establishment , die *
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audyoui family and yo ^ r flock while I remain , tho unknown , affectionately yours , Wm . HUNTIN 0 TQN , The Rev ' d Mr . Parsons ^ Claverton Street , Bath .
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tated the famous Act of Uniformity , which took effect on August 24 , 1662 . By the provisions of it the clergy were obliged , in the words of an historian who had no partiality for the seceders , * " either to
relinquish their livings or tp sign the articles required of them : ' am } this writer confesses that * tHe terms of subsc ription j ^ g jj ^ q made strict $ pdL rigid , on purpose to disgust all the zealous and
scrupulous among the Presbyterians /' ( so he incorrectly st ^ ie 3 thert ) 4 and deprive thempf l ; heiriiyings . What was the issued t wilj state
it in my author ' s language , that there may be no suspicion of exaggeration . ce About two thousand of the clergy , in one day , relinquished their cures * and , to the astonishment of the court ,
sacrificed their interest to their religious tenets . " That day was what he calls the fatal St . Bartholomew , already signalized in the annals of persecution * already stained by the treacherous massacre of the Protestants at Paris
ninety years before . Fatal it might justly l ? e denominated : it was so , in the op inion of Mr . Locke , to th ^ church and > .. - , tt „ - * ? Hum *' * Hi * &ct VoU VII . ( i 79 *> 3 S 4 .
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70 S Essay on Protestant Nonconformity
Miscellaneous Communications
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 706, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/14/
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