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REGISTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS.
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DOMESTIC . The General Baptist Assembly was liolden , as usual , on \ Vhit-Tuesday June 12 th , at Worship Street , London . The Scriptures were read and the devotional service conducted by Dr . Evans and Mr . Wright ; and Mr . Harding , of
Bessers Green , Kent , preached from 1 Thcss . i . 8 : " For from you sounded out the word of the Lord , not only in Macedonia and Achaia , " &c . The preacher ' s object appeared to be , first , to claim for Christianity a divine origin as the only rational means of accounting for
its early rapid and extensive spread , notwithstanding it had to contend with so many , powerful and inveterate enemies \— -secondly , to vindicate its great Founder and his apostles from having promulgated those doctrines which are generally reputed orthodox , but which
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are so repugnant to enlightened reason , and so derogatory from the character of the universal Parent ;—and , lastly , to en force on ministers and hearers thr duty and advantage of carrying the good news of salvation into villages in the vicinity of their several residences , and to open places for religious worship v / Ik'tl * - ever a house or a room can be found
suited to the purpose . Most of the letters from , the churches in connexion with the Assembly reported an increase of members since the last anniversary ; but from some churches the information was not cheering . Deaths and removals had thinned their numbers , and their prospests were but gjoomy . — The letter from the church at
Dovercontained the gratifying intelligence , that free communion had been adopted by the almost unanimous consent of the members . A strong desire was expressed m more than one letter , that there should
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are in a measure counteracted by san " guinary punishments , since the infliction of death leaves little opportunity of reformation to the wretched culprit , and disables him wholly from making compensation to the injured ; and since the dread of being the cause of so awful an
event as the loss of life by violence , deters many persons who are wronged from entering upon prosecutions , and lays witnesses and jurors under a temptation , from motives of pure humanity , to tamper with the sacred obligations of an oath ; for these reasons , the Petitioners beseech the House to institute in their
wisdom such a revision of the Criminal Code as shall assimilate it more closely to the benevolent spirit of our holy religion , and , at the same time , make it more effectual for restraining , chastising and reforming evil-doers , and for
protecting , strengthening and encouraging them that do well ; and should the House condescend to the prayer of the Petitioners , they will not cease to implore the Father of light and love to guide their deliberations and to crown their
benevolent labours with his blessing , that in the event , the Throne may be established in mercy , and the nation be exalted by righteousness .
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Dissenting Ministers ' Petition on the JPenal Laws . ( From the Votes of the House of CommoiivS . ) Mercurii , 23 ° die Maii , 1821 .
A Pbtition of the Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations in and about the cities of London and Westminster , was presented , and read ; setting forth , That the Petitioners have long and deeply lamented in secret the severity of the Penal Laws , in which this country , honourably distinguished
in so many other respects above the nations of the earth , seems to be less observant of the principles of mercy than any other Christian state ; as Ministers of the Gospel , the Petitioners cannot but deplore the application of capital punishments to so many crimes not accompanied by violence , and bewail with tears of anguish the number of human beings that
have been hurried by them into eternity in so awful a state of unpreparedness for their final account ; the Petitioners beg leave , with all humility , to state to the House , that the proper ends of civil punishments appear to them to be the reformation of the offender , the making of compensation to such as he may have wronged , or the protection of society from his further evil designs , all of which
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1821, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2501/page/48/
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