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This ignorance , however , is not peculiar to the present writer . In the World newspaper of last week , it is said , ' Of the whole number of petitioners whose names and prayers to the Legislature will be found elsewhere , [ in the paper , ] there are only six , of whom we ever heard before . ' In another paragraph it is stated , * We have examined the petition presented to
the House of Lords by Lord Eldon , with the assistance of some gentlemen who are acquainted with the names of the regular Protestant ministers of the metropolis , and we find that of the whole ninety-four signatures , not more than three are connected with the board of Independents , Baptists , and Presbyterians . Some of those who have signed their names as ministers of London , are persons from the country , and a very large proportion of them are not pastors of Christian churches . '
" Your Lordship will agree with me , that if the Protestant . Dissenting ministers of London are so little known as it is evident these gentlemen are , the Dissenting cause through the kingdom must be in a very poor state indeed . " —Pp . 28—30 .
fe proof that the subscribers of this petition have no right to the designation which they have assumed , is to be found in the first sentence of their petition . ' Your petitioners were not parties to the petition for the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts during the last session of Parliament . ' We thank them for this declaration ; it is a conclusive proof at once of their wisdom and of their title to represent the Dissenters . If ever the Dissenting body felt strongly , and I may say unanimously , it was on that memorable oc - casion ; the best evidence of which is to be found in the attention paid to
their application and its success . On that occasion there were no dissentients among the London ministers who made the application . The petition was a unanimous petition ; yet I am sorry to see two or three names attached to this last petition which belong to the general body . How the parties reconcile their own minds in making the declaration they have done , it is not for me to say .
" But the petitioners against the Catholic Claims did not petition for the Repeal of the Sacramental Test . They disapproved of that Repeal ;—and yet , forsooth , they wish to rank high among the Protestant Dissenters , and in zeal for the purity of religion ! Such is their hatred of Catholic Emancipation , that they would rather a divine ordinance should be desecrated for ever , than that Catholics should be placed on a common footing with themselves in respect of civil rights . They would rather that the Holy Supper , commemorative of our redemption , were the picklock of a place , and the seal of
individual perdition , than that men should sit on the same bench , or vote in the same Parliament . Be it , that the Repeal * opened the doors to Catholic Emancipation / and that this were an evil , fiit justitla mat ccelum . Let the names of the parties disapproving of both measures be canonized , if it is thought they deserve it , for their meritorious indifference to the purity of divine ordinances , and the sacred cause of religious freedom : but let them not henceforth claim a place among the Protestant Dissenters of England . "Pp . 31 , 32 .
The copy of Mr . Ivimey ' s title-page is sufficient to shew that his book is a compilation of the class commonly called catchpenny . But few of its pages come from his own pen ; they , however , are precious ones , and as full of dirt and venotn as they can hold . Probably many of our readers have seen a specimen of them in the Christian Reformer of last month , in an article entitled , " The Bigot Abroad , " Those who have will not wish for more ; and we will spare those who have not the sensations of disgust which must ensue from the nauseous exhibition . Individuals are bespattered unsparingly , especially , though not exclusively , those who , holding different theological tenets from those of the author , are , in his estimation , not " on the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1829, page 432, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2573/page/64/
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