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of an attempt to confine it : so that the boon is this mpre acceptsble , the more characteristic of the spirit of the reigri and of the times , inasmuch as it followed sp soon
upon the apprehensions vyhich not a few persons had entertained . The repeal , during the last year , of tire disabling and penal statutes against / Antutrinitarians , cannot lie forgotten . And this * , cneasure , far from being pjrecipitaiely urged or taken * was the result of niature
deliberation on the part both of the government and the legislature-There has also been a somewhat recent determination ^ in one of the spiritual courts , to which it is proper that I allude as not a
little ; friendly to dissenters . It is now judicially ascertained that clergy men cannot * refuse to bury , or to permit to be buried , children who have been baptized by noncoflformfstministers—without exposing themselves for such refusal , to the ahimadversion of the
law . * o have the benefits of Totefatiofi been extended in the reign of George the / Third only to Proliant Disinters ^ the Church ^ rEri | lan ^ t : Jiis Roma n Catholic hav in
^ b | e ^ ts ing ' gartal ^ en the JBt ^^ P ^! ? paternal govern , meht . In the Vear 17 $ I an act ^ p ^ secl ' ^ & £ whic ^ they are exemptedfrom very , severe
re-• Jt& ro fe / dinabilities and penalties , But Mf 1 Q l ^ worship and S ^ » $ ft ^ * "&&" £ ^ f-^ JS . r ° 6 ssions tQ Wjhich they were lM ^« # A ^ hle . t Anus irotn the accession of the family cm the throne down to the
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- . - . ri . _ .-present Lour religious liberty has enlarged her boundaries and conj 6 j : med her empire .
In this happy state of things the supr # i # e providence of God is to be acknowledged . Were the moral world governed by either chance or fate , we should bo unable to discern in it any steady progress towards improvement . So £ ar » human affairs would be at a
stand ; if , indeed , they did not wholly degenerate . Even if any degree of amendment were perceptible , still , on the supposition which I have putyit would be only a partial and temporary
amendment * The progress of knowledge and religion , the excellence of our civil constitution ^ framed on principles which-ample experience has
shewn to be productive of a very superior portion of practical liberty , and the temper df our mo . narebs of the reigning stock , have evidently been instrumental to the victories of religious freedom .
Hence , therefore , our attachment to our country may be rationally heightened . That country has numerous demands upon our affection ; none more truly irresistible than what flow from the
measure of spiritual liberty pos * sessed by its inhabitants . h riHere no Inquisition seals every Htfan * * lips and closes every man ' s understanding in regard to topics without the discussion of which life
almost ceases to be life : here the dissident from the religion--of i b * magistrate , is not constrained to flee to mountains and dav ^ ftts ^ ih order that he may Worship his Creator , if possible , without fear ami jmWtstation . - •? ¦ J ^ jfYfcfc religious liberty , b # 4 t innttfr forgotten , has qo solid value apart
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Essay on the Progress of Religious Liberty . . 613
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vat . ix . 4 x
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 613, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/25/
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