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706 History of the ( rkh Presbyterians .
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20 th of A ^ gjm IaUowt « g , Kwg Wil-Iian& hoeing twined the am * y Sft f ^ aders , and Queen Mary being Regent , letters patent passed the Oreafc Seal of Ireland , granting to seven ministers ,
daring pleasure , for the use ol the ministers of the North of Jrsl ^ d * , £ 1200 per annum , to be paid quarterly out of any of the revenues of the kingdom .
[ Queen Ai ^ ne d id . oot continue to feyotir tfce Presbyteries . Almost th « first ParUaiwa&fcry measure of her reign in Ireland was the passing of the Test A $ t i& 1704 5 by whielv , all
vi&o held oiBqes under the Cfgwh , were obliged to t $ ke the Sacrament according to the usage of the English Cfeuich . The i&esfej * teriaas . coase- * quently suffered much by the € iipotment of tMsrsereare aiKl uncalled-for
measure . They direw i * p several 4 pO " logies , " which were preseafced t # the Queen ; they petitioned Parliament in 1704 ; but all without eflPect . The High-Church party became more and more intolerant . !
la the 2 $ s $ year of the Queen , Ik toleration was still farther limited by 4 Act to prevent the Crjrewth 0 $ Schism . " By this * the education o& youtli was to be taken otit of the hands of the Dissenters , and entrusted only with those who wepre iuli wL en * tire ConforiBists . By the insertion of n clause in the Act , it waa made to
extend to Ireland . Though the Schisaii Kll extende ^ l on 4 y to schookaiuslieiis a « d tutors , yek it was fieaxed , frojin the character of Anne ' s ministry , that the meeting ? houses © f Dissenters would have beea .
shut up . In fact , between the time m the Queen ' s , death and the trews af it arriving , the meeting-houses of Downpatriok , Autritfa and Rathfrilaud were nailed up by some of the CUut ^ Il
party-On the decease of K&ip Williajii , the trustees &r the Royal Bounty petitioned Queen Anne to renew the grant . This she was pleased to * 1 q , by her letters patent , but with the fallowing liniitatnous in- — " Upon truat neKerthele&s tludi t ] ie nuoaey which shall be received thereupon , from time to tiiwe , shall be JiatribvU ^ d to aud
aiiK ^ i gst the wH Pr ^ sbyteriau mi ^ i ^ tQrs or s ** eb qI item , ajad in such p ir ^ portions as shall he appointed fvom time to time , in lists to be approved
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# f and ^ ip 4 |^ ^ W ^ lOl ^^ nt JDeputy or otH ^ r ^ hkf gfQveruor or governors of our said kingdom of Ireland , for the time being . ** * r Shib Schism JilB w ^ i ^ ^ ej ^ aled by 43 eoFge I , wh ^ was faBysat r slicd tha € thus
t iie XMs . sejat ^^ persecuted because of their opposition to the High-Church principles , and to a Tory aud Jacobite ministry . ^ THle s ^ iue Mun&reh , with his owa hand , stnick out of the Irish Act of
Toleratioa that clau&c wliieli stands in the English Act , th ^ t xeqaii ? ed Pre ^ bytenian ministers to subscribe t \\ $ docfermal articles of tke Establisked Ckui ^ h . f
[ About the same tn « e with the graotiug- of the preceding Toleration , ^ 400 was added to the salary settled op , them by King William'Ebese toleran-t measures tended very louch to trhie encoura ^ oraent of the Preabyfceriafib castse in Ulster ^ The
nuiriber m congelations increased yearly ; lwinisteBS- iiistrueted ia the Irish Language , were annuatty sent to propagate the Protestant religion among the Roman Catholics , Ip the remote parts of the inland ; so that of
during this reign-, ^ he number ministeru and congregations was increas ed ta 150 , divided into tea dP ^ esbyteries , and associated ia one general Synod , th ^ t , from tins period , has continued , to meet auaually ia June .
in 1726 , after several years * ifiseussiou on tlie sulyect of stLbeerlption to the Westminster Confession of Faith , oo £ Presbyteny , J consisting of those \ y \\ 0 refused subeeribuag to any cr . eed of limnan composition , becaoae separiiteJ from tlie jurisdictk ) n of the Synod , though still eor-operating with it in every thing that concerns the
ge-* It appears , however , that from the time of tiie first & > wnt in 1672 until 1803 ^ , the ministers of die Synod '^ possessed uncoaiti-Qlled authoiirity ia tfe dj » t » ibutiou of the R . B . t That tl ^ e DissenU ^ g mini sU r . s \ jx Iifel <\ n& obt ^ ui ^ d a teg ^ l tok&itfipii , upo » more Catholic and ge ^ eraj , ter ms * was
entirely owing to the friendly interposition of hi $ M ^ yesty King George I ., who , upon receiving the proposals of the Irish triii ) isters , it is repotted , should say—• " They know not what they would be afr ; and that they should have a toleration without any subscription . " X This was the Presbytery of A ntruB .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 706, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/2/
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