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nokibe-aaswexeA , { I il sfesli ¦ 4 > ttJ $ r > pay * , rhope * for / thelsakejof i » y fellovif-chjris-^ tians at large , that my views are wrotig . < M * -howevfcry I arar ri § ht , what
hyfeoctisy , " ^ feafprofanation i& it for our 1 marriage ceiremotries to be performed iti Church . It % vould be tnore iii eha-^ |* acter fpr ninety-nine couples out of Jtlie hundred tabe join t ed by the hangman . rather than tfye priest . We talk much pf Christianity having abolished . pojlygamy . I am , no friend to the .
practice y but of one thing I am certain , th&t it has uo where so strongly prohibited polygamy as it has forbidden fornication : and -when I look through thb Jewish religion , and see how well female virtue was protected , I cannot believe that under the Christian
system , those will be regarded with trje favour of the ^ Universal Parent , wi , th whatever pomp theix marriages may have been solemnized , to whom we owe the necessity of Penitentiary houses , Magdalen hospitals , & : c . &c . -From these observations , you will observe ^ Sir , that the devotional spirit which some people think so proper
for persons to possess who are about to enter into noly matrimony , and which they also think the present mode of sqlemnizino ; it has a tendency to prpmote , I think should be felt before jnarriage is thought of at all . And the man who only feels xlevotionally in this matter just when the priest is going tp tie him by a knot which caiuaot be undone , for life , has the
same sort of bastard demotion as the culprit feels , in the apprehension of encountering on the morrow the
hangman a noose . JS these imperfect hints , Mr . Editor , should provpke a discussion , which , conducted with as much modesty as the ; subject will admit of , shall tend to make the institution of marriage xnore rightly understood , tnore
devotjonally sought after , and more reli-^ foiust y observed , I shall be satisfied iji laying brought it before the notice ' of ; Vour ' readers . At all events I shall p 9 j ^ appy , tg ^ ee success attend the excrt ^ pns . j apd , project of your correspondtiii J ) . % , , , X FV
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Vwcfc seei it , posted ug&my ^ t « * $% PWPh $ nd 3 & $ SL % | h % ad-\( ert ^ sement mteBoraas a deterice' of $ kJfM * > . ; s # 4 * yf $ ' $$ ? & ? $ ' $ < & . ., ., $ hs first jnn . 1 skew , W Wh ^ i tffflg , the meetinjg was advertized , wnich tfie Reverend Gehtlemfiri Was ,, i ^ ^ ms apprehensive might * ' cbn'vfert so ^ at / ed
an edifice as his ** :, f ^ e ^ koid—the church , into a bear-- ;< gardea . * ' The other exhibits an authentic exposition of his great lenity-arid foTbcarante , " towards one of his parishioners , who did not understand , as is evideriL the 5
paper he signed , and three ; ' . other * whose confessions relate Only tiTthe alleged libel , and who may r iot be very competent judges ^ and especially under the dread of an impending proseciitiaiv how far the large hand-bill contains any libel against the Rector , unless k be his oicn letter . .
Prosecutions are however , I understand , going on against at leastfeigAi of the xtector ' s other parishioritsrs , including the author of the imagined libel > all of whom refuse . to make any similar acknowledgement ^ or to sign their names to any such paper . J forbear making any observations on their confession which the Rector has been
authorised " to insert in one or more of the daily papers , or to publish in any other way which he ; may tliipk advisable , " than on a few plain matters of fact . L would in the first place observe , that to claim the right of opposing the circulation of the Holy Scriptures in the manner the J&edtpr ^ letter to the Churchwardens propo&s , and to which the said hand-bill refers ,
is not to attempt opposing their circulation entirely , or in any other manner . Nor is it to charge him with * ' attempting to prevent the circulation" of those writings amongst his parishioners altogether , but only throug h the medium of the Bible Society ,
which is well known to distribute them without the Prayer-Book . My introductory observations , which wete published long before I had any kft&wledge , or even suspicion that such a Drosecution was thought of , wiirevuu ^
th ^ te » . js ? yny ^ Bff ? w . ^^ f ^ ten * q'f ; irf > e , Recto . r ^ s ^ c ^ u Rfi J ° ™ l wmufapLQKrOii th e ' uiSspBt ^^ fiif ^^ ^ % jil ^^ en , , sB ^ h * J ima # w »> whiti > surely , his letit ^ is wiaTrante ^ f » infwiUttofr'aeAyj' &wc £ ohis pat »«; vdmte T ^ v ^ h ^^ itflM ^ ' ^^^ mliiHiiAty ** ifta « tofei ! L « rtijW « y ^ ; posed , and wilfully misrepresented »
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/ .. ¦ J ( I &XBL + * .. ilaqkney , ? eb * l $ , , $ l 6 . ^ d | 7 iME lKr I sent you the attire , ¦ T ^ f iiisert ^ d Yipl , x . p , 74 U Ijbad ¦ tot d&kr % ) m kdtinhhtkent of an -1 nx le ^ i R m ^^ 'Me ^ tim ilfi r ! Brmtliaal Gjtjeen Church , which calledn ^ ffly the Rector ' s extraordinary letter . Having
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1816, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2451/page/26/
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