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of his works . These gentlemen were well acquainted , and the latter gave the former a volume which he had just published , in which some of his peculiar religious opinions were set forth . Some time afterwards they met , and the Doctor asked Mr . N . whether he had read his book : He
answered , that he had only looked into it . You have had time enough to read it through , returned the Doctor . But , rejoined Mr . N ., suppose a friend was to present me with a fine leg of
mutton , and my cook sent it to table beautifully dressed , but the moment I put my knife into it I perceived it tainted ; should I not instantly send it away ? " ,
Could a more effectual method of evading all chance of conviction , all possibility of escape from error or prejudice have been devised ? I could not help reminding my fellow-traveller that if the Catholics of his native
Ireland , for whose conversion he was so laudably zealous , were to adopt the principle which he recommended , and upon which he acted , all hope of success must immediately vanish ; as the moment they discovered from the preaching or writings of Protestants , that they denied the infallibility of
the Pope , or the , doctrine of transubstantiation , ( for which , by the way , there is more direct scriptural evidence than can be found for that of the Trinity , ) they would instantly " perceive the taint" and refuse to hear or read a single seutence more . M . H . —^—
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Speech of the Bishop of Norwich in Favour of the Catholics . 475
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Speech of the Right Reverend the Lord Sishop of Norwich , in the House of Lards , on Friday the \ Qt 7 i of May , 181 7 , in favour of the Catholic Petitions .
y Mv Lords , THE appointment of the learned Prelate \ Marsh ~\ to the last vacant See \ JLlandaff ~ \ gave great satisfaction to every friend of literature and of religion ; and to no one more than to myself . I cannot however allow either my
personal regard for him , or the real respect which 1 have for his abilities , to hinder me from expressing , in this public manner , the deep regret which I feel at the misapplication of those abilities in support of a proscription the most unjust , the most unwise ,. the most
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cruel , and in point of duration the longest , which is to be met with in the history of the world , —a proscription , my Lords , which excludes between four and five millions of meritorious and loyal civil subjects from their civil privileges ; though they have given to
the Government under which they live , the most unequivocal proofs of civil allegiance : proofs admitted to be unequivocal by the very Government which continues their exclusion ; and can therefore continue it solely on account of their conscientious
adherence to the innocent religious opinions of their forefathers : I say , my Lords , innocent religious opinions ( though , in our judgment , erroneous ) , which were impressed upon their minds , in early youth , both by precept and by example . In this intolerant country
( for so it is lately become ) I shall probably be censured for using the phrase " innocent religious opinions : " but I should hope still , that the religious opinions of a Fenelon and a Pascal ; the religious opinions of some of the most polished nations on the
continent ; and of several highly respectable noblemen and gentlemen of this country , with whom we are in the habit of mixing every day in friendly intercourse ; men , who possess natural understandings as clear , intellectual improvements as considerable , and
moral characters as irreproachable as the best of us ; I should hope , I say , that the religious opinions of such men may be deemed innocent , without giving just cause of offence to any well-informed , any liberal , or any candid mind . Independently of this
consideration , 1 have the sanction of the Legislature itself for making use of the phrase " innocent religious opinions . " In different Acts of Parliament which have passed during the present reign , in Ireland , the religious tenets of the Catholics are vindicated
from the imputation of being either pernicious or unsocial ; these are , 1 believe , the words of the preamble ; and it is added , that when they have taken the well-known oath and
declaration , they shall be considered as good and loyal subjects , and fit to serve His Majesty . This oath , my Lords , they have taken , and / they have made this declaration : I there' - fore again say , that they are excluded
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 475, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/27/
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