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SHEWETfc , That a measure lately introduced into the Mouse of Commons , the object of which is the repeal of the Marriage Laws , as they at present affect the Unitarian Dissenters , has attracted the attention of your petitioners .
That , as it appears to your petitioners , the parts of the Marriage Service of the Church of England , to which the Unitarians principaily object , are these twothe repeating of the words— " In the name of the Father , and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , " and the hearing of the following blessing from the mouth of the minister .
That the foregoing words , which the Unitarians object to repeat , are the words of our blessed Saviour himself , and your pe titioners think it to be most unreasonable in persons cailing themselves Christians , to protest , as many of the Unitarians have protested , against the words of Christ .
That your petitioners humbly suggest to your Right Honourable House , that it must needs be dangerous to the stability of a Christian Legislature , to listen to the scruples of such persons . For since the Unitarians have not scrupled to alter the New Testament , and to reject such
parts of the same as are repugnant to their principles , the mere admission of the truth of their argument by the Legislature , may lead to the general rejection of whole chapters of the sacred volume , and eventually to the public acknowledgment of man ' s right to alter the word of God , and so to the establishment of
Uuitananism by law ; and that in proof of the foregoing assertion , your petitioners humbly re for your Lordships to a book which is called " The improved Version of the New Testament , " published some y ears ago by the Unitarians- And being firm believers in the truth of the whole
sacred volumes , and being bound by their ordination vow to instruct the people out of the same , your petitioners , in conclusion , beg to represent , that the plea pf conscientious scruples is as forcible when
applied to themselves as to the Unitarians , and considering that the compliance wiih the proposed measure wouid be in direct opposition to their own feelings and conscience , they humbly hope , that the aforesaid measure may not be allowed to pass into a law . And your petitioners , &c \
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During the year 1824 , there were admitted into the British Museum 112 , 840 persons . The estimated expense for the current year is . £ 15 , 416 . Amongst the items of approaching charge are , " Drawls trom the Athenian Marbles , jfe' 350 ;"
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" Engravings from ditto , ^ i ? 300 . " For the purchase of foreign books , and continuing the works in progress in the library of Sir Joseph Banks , and & 2 SS ., . £ 1000 , Towards printing the Alexandrian MS . there were last year expended
. £ 391 5 and the sums already expended in the printiu £ , &c . of this MS . amount to £ 8 , 877 . The printing of the whole of the text , and of the greater part of the notes , is completed . The remaining
portion of the notes and of the Prolegomena will amount to about ^ 300 , Sir R . C . Hoare has presented his valuable collection of Italian Topography , amounting to 1700 articles , to this national In ? stitution .
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IftteUj&eftCe .- ~ Particuiafis ' of the Funeral of the lute Rev . Dr . Parr . 249
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Particulars of the Funeral of the late Rev . Dr . Samuejl . Parr . ( See Obituary , pp . 183—185 . ) [ Prom The JVarwich Advertiser , March 19 . ]
The mortal remains of Dr . Samuel Parr , —in whom the republic of letters has lost one of its brightest ornamentsthe Church one of its most eminent divines—the country one of its greatest
patriots—society one of the best of men , —and civil and religious liberty , one of its most eloquent advocates , —were , on Monday last , interred , without pomp or ostentation , though with becoming solemnity , in the Parish Church of Hatton ;
—where , for the long pc > riod of forty years , both by precept and example , he had approved himself a faithful pastor over the flock committed to his care , as well as an able and successful minister of that gospel which proved to him a source of unfailing consolation through life , and amidst the struggles of expiring nature .
The funeral , superintended by Mr . lialy , of this place , was arranged , even in the most minute particulars , agreeably to the directions which the deceased had left behind him . At one o ' clock , the bells of the parish Church , which had tolled , at intervals ,
throughout the day , suddenly ceased ; and a peal of cheerful melody from its humble tower , soon put the whole line of procession , which had previously been formed in front of the house , in motion . The Rev . Dr . Butler , and the Rev , Ranu Kennedy , headed the mournful cavalcade .
Two clergymen , who had occasionally discharged the duties of the ministry foi their deceased friend during his last illness , next followed ; then came two other gentlemen , his friends , and four medical attendants , walking two and two . The body of the deceased was borne ^ from the Parsonage House—where he had closed his long and valuable life—by eight of his paiishiouers . These were
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1825, page 249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2535/page/57/
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