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persons ; that by displaying its owa wealth they may feel their poverty the more sensibly . "—More , p . 203 . ~) H
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" I am therefore dearly of optmon > that the marriage in question not only may bat ought to be solemnized ; ana that the minister refusing to perform the ceremony may be compelled to do so ; and I therefore recommend that no further opposition be made to him . " Signed , H . J . " Doctors * Commonsy 5 Dec . 1820 . "
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TJie late Rev . John Hornbrook's Letter on Clerical Subscription . Birm ingh am , Sir , February 2 , 1821 . FjnHE following statement , by €€ a JL distressed clergyman , " was the effusion of a heart that knew i € its own
bitterness : " it discloses the character of the individual from whom it proceeded , and shews that the pressure of clerical subscription has been more severely and extensively felt than
persons living in the busy world may have imagined . I am enabled to inform you , on the authority of the writer himself , that this correspondent of Mr . Urban was the late Rev . John
Hornbrook , who died , some years ago , at or near Plymouth . He was designed originally for the law : his turn of mind , however , induced him to take orders ; and he officiated , for a considerable time , first as curate of
Moretonhampstead , in Devonshire , and afterwards , in the same capacity , at Tamerton , in . that county . From his diocesan , Bishop Ross , * whom he made acquainted with his scruples in respect of reading " the Athanasian Creed , he received the most satisfactory assurances of
sympathy and candour . But Conformity was a burden too heavy to be endured by a man like Mr . Hornbrook . Many years before his death , he quitted the ministry . and communion of the Established Church , and joined himself to a society of Unitarian Christians . He
sometimes preached to the congregation at Plymouth , of which he had now become a member . The strain of his sermons was exceedingly plain and useful ; and nothing but the tremulousness of his voice and frame prevented him from being heard with unabated pleasure .
* Notices and letters of Bishop Ross will be found in Nichols' Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century .
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A JLetter hy the late Rev . John Jfornbrook . Wt
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{ . Hergyvnen v&mpeHabfe to marry Unbar piized Persons . WRITER in The Christian Ob-A server for January , has communicated the following Case and Opinion on this subject , observing , that he is " informed that the present and the
late Bishop of the largest diocese in England both consider a clergyman right in refusing to marry unbaptized persons . " We invite the opinions of our correspondents who are in the profession of the law upon this question , which involves the dearest rights of no inconsiderable portion of the Dissenters .
" To Dr * J . y DoctorsCommons . " Banns of marriage between J . H . and M . W . were published in the parish church of K . on three several Sundays . The vicar being called upon to solemnize the marriage , refused the request upon its having been stated to him , that one of the parties , namely J . H ., had never received the rite of baptism from any person whatsoever .
* Your opinion is requested , whether marriage may be solemnized , and whether the minister may be compelled to marry , without the rite of baptism being previously administered ; and , if not , whether it will be necessary to republish the banns after baptism . " J . T . H . "
" To Rev . J . T . H . " Whatever may have been required by the ancient Rubrick , it is now perfectly clear , that it is not incumbent upon the new-married couple to receive the Sacrament , though it be recommended as
convenient to be done ; and therefore the reasoning which was applicable to the law as it then stood , is not to be applied to it in its existing state . The Marriage Act , it is true , requires ' that the true Christian and Surname should be used in
the publication of banns ; ' and perhaps , strictly speaking , there is no true Christian name but that which is received in baptism . It has , however , been held , that for the purposes , of that 'Act , a Christian , as well as a Surname , may be acquired by repute ; and that a person , whose name was Abraham Langley , was well married by , and after the publication of banns in , the name of George Smith , yide the King v . the Inhabitants of Billinghurat ( 3 Maule and Selwyn , p . 250 ) ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1821, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2497/page/37/
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