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pher ? Was he less reiligious fpr being a disciple of Hartley ? Let us hear what he says respecting- his pursuits , and his views of the Divine Government , in a private letter ; one of the last he ever wrote . " The more I
contemplate this great system , ( of the Divine Government , ) the more satisfaction I find in it : and the structure being so perfect , there cannot be a doubt but that the end and use of it , in promoting happiness , will correspond to it . These views , as I take
more pleasure than ever in Natural History , contribute much to brighten the evening of my days . But my great resource is the Scriptures , which I have not of a long time passed a single day without reading a portion of , and I am more interested in it continually .
I seem now to see it with other eyes , and all other reading is comparatively insipid /' A better example of the influence of the Hartleian philosophy could not be adduced , as Priestley had given a
large portion of his time and attention to the study and illustration of the works of Hartley . The most eminent disciple of Hartley found his greatest delight , to the last , in reading the Scriptures ! This is sufficient to prove the tendency of his doctrines .
If the same effects should be produced in us , we may give glory to God continually that he has permitted the light of his gospel to shine upon us : and let it not be forgotten among
our causes of thankfulness , that he lias permitted to arise from this gospel , an independent evidence of its truth , which , if well improved , may render it , in a peculiar degree , a guide to our feet , and a lamp to our path . H . M .
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Petition from Clergy of Merioneth against the Roman Catholic Marriages Bill . [ A Friend in the House of Commons has sent us the Appendix to the
Votes of the House , of the 3 rd of May , 1824 , containing the following clerical petition , which , he thinks , and we think with him , ought to be made known to other persons , besides Members of Parliament . ]
PETITION of the Venerable A the Archdeacon and Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Merioneth , in
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the diocese of Bangor , was presented and read ; setting forth , that the petitioners , anxiously alive , as it is their duty to be , to the welfare of that
church to whose service they are consecrated , necessarily look with apprehension to any measure by which its interests can be affected ; that the petitioners conceive any further concessions to the Roman Catholics will
affect those interests in a very high degree , and tend materially to impair the influence and diminish the utility of the Established Clergy ; that the petitioners cannot but feel that 3 as far as depends upon the Establishment , such influence must rise or fall with the
encouragement or discouragement given to the clergy by the government of the country ; that the petitioners are clearly of opinion , that if any accession of power be conferred upon the Roman Catholics , and especially if any direct countenance be given to the
acts of the Roman Catholic priesthood , not only will the encouragement due to the Established Clergy be diminished , but the adherent of a foreign ecclesiastical potentate placed in fact
in a more advantageous condition ; that in particular the Bill by which it is proposed * to compel the clergy to publish the banns of Roman Catholics , and to register marriages on a certificate handed to them from a
Roman Catholic priest , will tend directly to degrade their character and impair their influence , and to destroy , in a great degree , the notion of the National Church as a Christian society ; and that any plan which would legitimate the establishment of Roman Catholic
institutions in this country would be highly injurious to the Protestant cause in general ; that the Established Church , amidst many advantages for which it is grateful , labours yet under this great disadvantage , that it cannot
act like its rival associations independently , but is evidently subject to many checks and restraints in the exercise of ecclesiastical discipline , so that if it be deprived of the support which it possesses in the exclusive countenance of the Government , it will no
longer maintain a contest with its adversaries upon equal terms ; that suck exclusive countenance is in truth implied in the very idea of an Establishment , and that no Establishment from which it is withdrawn can lone * subsist ^
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Intolerant Petition from the Clergy of Merioneth * 273
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/17/
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