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the number of such is much greater than a superficial view might suggest . There , are hundreds wh . p M $ k it ppjfay tq conceal ^ entj ^^ Rt ^ lh& ppen . #$ « pression of which would , at the pje ^ ent Q > omei | t ^ serve only to bring upon them the honest indignation of the liberal and disinterested . Amidst this involuntary silence a voice is now and ihen heard proceeding from quarters where there is less discretion and more zeal than commonly prevail . In
Plymouth * the son of the late Dr . Hawker being dismissed from the curacy which he held , sought for another Church in which to exercise bis clerical functions . But as , like his father , he is a high Calvinist , he has not met with success . Great exertions were made to obtain permission lor him to preach occasionally , hut in vain . Those who had been accustomed to hear him when curate , have therefore erected him a chapel , and Mr . Hawker , in a
pamphlet which he has published on , the subject , declines having U cpnsecrated an ^ puj under ^ he , protection of the state . His reason he Plates , ta be * " the passing of that eventful bill" ( fox Catholic emancipation ) , <* w hich , in my judgment , hath laid $ he axe to the root of our once happy PfPtesteat constitution , and divided ai > 4 loused a schism between out Church and State , " «« With these v * QW 1 cannot , with pay qonfideijce or satisfaction ,
depend on the protection or $ i * 4 any comfort from being under the cape of the goyernprs of ou ? Established Church . " Ppw great a reason Dissenters have to rejoice in the accession of Mr , Hawker to their ran& may te learnt frorn the mildness of his spirit , as ^ ewn in the following extract taken from the pamphlet before named : " And this is the cause why Infidel * of the < jay , in Arian ax ? fl jSoeinian blasphemy , have set up their banners in our la » c ) , anjl ^ ave d ^ rpd to deny t ^ e Gcdhead of CJbn 3 t- ?> is the of the
Th ^ re a prpbability , we are jpfora * ecj , tb ^ t cmatfi late Dr . Hawker , by nape Courtney , and for whom ajsp a chapel has been erected , may pursue a similar course . In the same way DrP Stonard , rector of AU dingham , has , in a tetter recently addressed to the Bishop of Chester , thus declared his sentiments : * * At the same time , and with the deepest seriousness , with the most fervent desire I dp look , I do hope for the emancibatiof- ^ I use the wor 4 advisedly , w ^ thpgt considering that I am guilty of any exaggeration in so using jt ^ rfpr tk # &MAXCIvatiqh of our ecclesiastical es ^
tablishment from the secular shackjes by which H is fettered ; for the entire deliverance of the Church of England from oil dependence on the Crown , and from all ministerial connexion with it * U is pot without great paia that I have brought myself to be convinced of the necessity of this step . Church and King has through life been the sentiment familiar to my n > ind , congenial to my heart , frequent on my lips- But the relation of the Crown
to the Chjurch is so changed , is sp perverted by th ^ late act , that they cannot remain in their forrnpr conjunction without fcbe most serious , the most ex * tensive and deadjy injury to tfee latter . If , then , tbe pfipple of England are true to themselves , they will so deal with their representatives in Parliament as to effect a tota ^ afld fin ^ i separation pf tfce Church from the power of Jhe Crown , anjd from the influence of Wy portion of the goiftrament . * ' A day of strange conversions ip thw !
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The , IFHtGhmon . 659
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 659, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/59/
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