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" Td Mr . i" p commonly called the Ren * M r * wn , " The undersigned , being Unitarian Dissenters * present 16 you the following Protest against the Marriage Ceremony , to which , according to the law of * h « land , they ane compelled to
subscribe . They disclaim all intention of acting disrespectfully either to the legislature , or to its civil officer before whom they stand . They lament that they are placed in a situation so
unnatural , as that even forbearance to what they consider as established error , would be a formal recantation of opinions Which they received on conviction , and which they will only renounce on similar grounds .
« ' Against the Marriage Ceremony they can but most solemnly protest ; 44 JBecmise it Snakes marriage a reli gious instead of a civil act ; " Beca ? ue , a 3 Christians and
Protestant Dissenters , it is impossible we can allow of the interference of any human institution , with matters which concern our faith and consciences ;
H Because , as knowing nothing of a priesthood in Christianity , the submission to a ceremony performed by a persori * in holy orders , or pretended holy orders / is painful and humiliating to our feelings :
" Because , as servants of Jesus , we worship the one living and true God , his God and onr God , his father and our Father ; and disbelieve and abominate the doctrine of the Trinity , in whose name the Marriage Ceremony is performed . " ( Signed ) «" JOHN DILLON , "MARY WOOLLEY , Members of the Church of God , meeting in the Crescent , J ^ vin Street , known by the name of Free-thinking Christians . ' * April 2 , 1818 *
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Missioaary accounts that are pab * Hshed , they may not be aware howstriking an occasion they present © f applying this trial to the question of the Trinity , It may not be useless to prove this by a few instance * , which are a fair sample of a host of others . In the Christian Observer for
February , in this year , an interesting account is given of a visit paid by a man named Anitnd Messech , to some Christian converts in the neighbourhood of Delhi . He found in their hands a copy of a gospel , and oil pointing out to one * of them the name
of Jesus , asked him , " Who is that ?" " That is God ; " replied the Hindoo . Would this have been an apostle ' s an . swer ? Again , in the Missionary ti e * gister for the same month , we read a letter from a Calmuc prince , addressed to the President of the Russian Ribfe
Society . It begins in this way : — . " On the lQth of the first Tiger month I received with great pleasure the tetter you wrote me , together with two copies of the History of th £ Merciful ( rod Jesus Christ , translated into our Mougolian language . You desire me to read in this book . In
obedience to this command , I hav £ not only myself read the word and doctrines of the Almerciful GodJesm Christ , but have given one of the copies to our Lama , who reads it with the priests . "
Once again , among the same pages is given a letter from Pomare , King of Tahiti , or Otaheite , accompanying his household gods , which he has sent over to Europe , as he beautifully says , 44 that they may be either burnt with fire , as is thought proper , or that the
people of Europe may satisfy their curiosity , and know Tahiti ' s foolish gods / ' ~ Here , indeed , is cause not only for blessing God and glorying itt our Master , but also for heartily commending our brethren , and embracing them with Christian love , who hav £
doiife such great good . But is it not startling to read in Pomare ' a lfettef , twice repeated , sulh expressions as these : " When this body of mine shall be dissolved in death , may the Thme-one save mtr *• Tha Thr& ~ one ^ he ft is that < 5 an make the lore of Bin to cease * ?
Surely ^ e may say , this appears to be a setting forth Of strange gods , arid is too much like reefeiiftii )* mm htm
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Missioiiary Perversions vf Christianity . 365
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Claphtrn , Sir , March 03 , 1618 . CONCEIVE it affords a feir trial I of the soripturality of Any doctrines , to observe \ vhether those who
believe tiitnply as they are taiig l ^ t , aad speak simply an they me » n are led by recolvitig them into kctipttmtl pr nnscrtptural way * of thinking and « l * eakinfc . As many of your readers m % « 6 t be accustomed to peruBe the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/21/
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