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deuce and possess our love . It is * on the contrary , the spirit of persecution to attend not to the acts of men , but their opjr uions or their words . Thus it is that persons who had no religion , but who will profess any faith , because they agree in words
with the doctrines of the state , have been enabled not ouly to live luxuriously , not only to enjoy the highest honours , but to inflict pains and penalties , and imprison * ment and death , on those conscientious men , whose religion was most holy and sincere , and who would not profess what they did not believe .
As to the Test Act , I agree with all that has been said . I heartily wish that mark of odium , and that odious mark , should be repealed ; for I cannot but think that those annual acts of indemnity are absurd anomalies that ought to end . By them they declare that the Sacramental tests which our ancestors thought
necessary for office , are no longer necessary , and declare that persons may omit these oaths with perfect security to the State . But if some are honourably scrupulous , and refuse the evasion of the law , and thereby shew a conscience more alive and tender ; it is to these men , most scrupulous and worthy , the legislature refuses the benefit which the less
consistent may enjoy . I trust , therefore , the time will soon come when the many and weighty prejudices which exist on this subject , will be removed , and that we shall hail the day when , by the general agreement of men , those Test and Corporation Acts shall be regarded with joy as abolished , and as a dispensation under which Britons no longer live .
I cannot conclude without referring to that attachment to civil liberty which I own is deeply eagraven on my breast . It is a source of satisfaction to me , that religious liberty is in this country closely connected with civil freedom ; for although religious liberty i « a boon so valuable ,
that whatever might have beeu us origin , though the giver were some foul tyrant , it should be gladly welcomed ; yet it is a satisfaction to think , that civil and religious liberty here spring up together , as the twin children of the Revolution . That
union those who love either should cherish ; and at this time , when the world is in commotion , when civil and religious liberty both have suffered—when those who have power seem uniting to oppress now one and now the other , are now
threatening the Toleration Act and now the Bill of Rights , it becomes those who love either of those liberties , to bring those twin brethren closer , as oft as possible , and to teach them to seek from each other their beat support . Bat I must express the gratitude I feel for the
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Intelligenee . W l-Neur m&tkVoltege . 7
very undeserved and top warm eag&sii ? urns given to myself this day . Itjbse who hate touched on these topics have * I fea& outgone the truth * But their praise will be a motive to endeavour , by the whole Course of nay life , to deserve such
eulogies from such honourable lips . Nor can I omit to state , that I have beard some words which have affected my heart far more deeply than auy encomium conferred on me . To those words I refer , in which your Secretary- Idndly expressed his wish that the days of my father . might be prolonged . With the completion of
that wish my own happiness must be entwined . The . general interest manifested in these wishes wa £ more grateful to my heart than any plaudits you pronounce , ; and I assure you , that the expression of this wish for the life of my rather , than whom religious liberty has no steadier friend , has made an impression on my mind that will never be erased .
His Lordship then left the chair amidst reiterated cheers ; and the meeting speqflily dispersed . . , ¦
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11 '¦ , m * Bishop of St . David s Circular respecting- the Cafyege for the Education of Young Men intended for Holy Orders in the Diocese of St David ' s .
The utility of an appropriate course of studies for young men intended for holy orders , and the want of an institution which should unite in some considerable degree the advantages of an University education , by combining a
progressive method of theology , literature , and science , with the regularity of moral discipline , first induced the Bishop of St . David ' s , hi the year 1804 , to propose the , establishment of a Clerical Seminary aft Llanddewi Brefl , for the education of future candidates for orders in the
diocese of St . David ' s , who could not afford the expense of an University education . The great extent of the diocese , the poverty of its beue / ices , and the inability of , the generality of candidates for the m $ T nistry in it to pursue their studies at an University , render such an institution pe *
culiarly necessary for that diocese . Many objections having been made to Llanddewi Brefi on account of its remote situ ation , the want of a market , and i *^ ta accessibleness for want of turnpike roallii
a recent offer of another site , dry , airy and healthy , in the p * ecinctd of Lampeter , a small market town . a , fqw miles distant from Llanddewi Bref * , has been made by the Lords of th < £ Manor of Lampeter , with a benefaction of one . thousand pounds . The great superiority of . the new site over that of Llanddewi Bi eti haa
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 715, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/59/
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