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At eleven o'clock a public service was commenced . The Rev . C . P . Valentine , of Lewes , from Philipp . i . 9 , preached au excellent Discourse on the Importance of the Diffusion of Knowledge to the Spread of Christian Truth . He instanced those parts of human learning which have the most direct bearing upon religious investigation ; especially
adduced inquiry into the nature of the human mind , on the one hand , and the study of Hebrew antiquities , rather than verbal Greek criticism , on the other ; directed the attention of his hearers to the well known and animating fact of the progressive extension of information
on all subjects , and exhorted them to take advantage of the state of the public mind , which is seeking new impressions , to diffuse more widely those principles which they believe to be the principles of truth and righteousness . The discourse , while zealously Baptist , was free from any taint of bigotry .
After the religious service , the business of the meeting was resumed by reading the Committee ' s He port , which , among other matters , stated that several opportunities of useful exertion presented themselves , if the Committee were in possession of the pecuniary means . It may , perhaps , be allowed to say here , that the Committee for the current year have availed themselves of two of these
opportunities . The Report also announced the change from close to open communion , which has happily taken place in the General Baptist Church at Horsharu , in Sussex , where there is a good and respectable congregation . The Committee could not fail to notice , with the praise that it deserves , the Rev . B . Mardon ' s excellent little work , " shewing that Believers' Baptism is a reasonable
service , is fouuded on Divine command , aud calculated , in its proper observance , to produce the most important practical results . " Nor could they withhold their approbation from the list of objections and their answers , appended to the work , and which prove that the same hand which could crush a metaphor , cau overturn an ill-founded objection .
After the report had been received various resolutions were passed connected with the object of the meeting ; as correlative to which the following resolution was unanimously agreed to : * ' That this Assembly learns with regret the failure of the measure for the relief of the Jews from their civil disabilities , conscientiously believing that every faithful citizen should enjoy all the civil rights which are possessed by his fellow-
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countrymen , aud that to deny them is to invade the conscience , which is the sanctuary of God . " The meeting was closed by prayer ; after which , about forty persons adjourned for dinner to the White Hart Tavern , Bishopsgate Street , where J . Brent , Esq ., of Canterbury , was called to the Chair . The usual toasts were given expressive of loyalty , love of liberty , desire
for the spread of truth , and for the increasing practice of all Christian obligations . Some of the persons present left about an hour after the cloth was removed to attend a Juvenile Missionary Society at Worship Street , and the remainder broke up at an early hour , both carrying away with them a grateful sense of the urbanity of the Chairman aud of the bodily and mental refreshment which they had received .
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Meeting of the Remonstrant Synod of Ulster , ( Continued from p . 501 . ) Mr . Neilson then moved , 8 . " That ( having , ineffectually , endeavoured , for two years , to obtain a repeal or even a modification of those obnoxious regulations ) we are now
compelled , in obedience to the dictates of conscience—in vindication of our owu rights—in support of the iualienable privileges of Students , Licentiates , Ministers , and Congregations—in defence of religious liberty , and to avoid being accessary to the suppression of what many of us believe to be the truth of God—to
separate ourselves from the Synod of Ulster , and to remain separated until that Body shall have returned to the scriptural principles and usages of Presbyterianisin . " John Alexander , Esq ., seconded the resolution ; which was unanimously agreed to . The Rev . Arthur Nelson shewed
that they were , in reality , the individuals justly entitled to the appellation of the Synod of Ulster , as having adhered to the principles upon which the body had been founded . They would be satisfied with the name of the Remonstrant Synod of Ulster , a name to which , lie conceived , they might justly lay claim . He would , therefore ,
move—9 . <* That we now , in the name of the Great Kiug and Head of the Church , and earnestly imploring the blessing of Almighty God , solemnly associate ourselves , under ; the designation of The Remonstrant Synod of Ulster—a designation to which we consider ouxtjtiive *
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Intelligence . —Remonstrant Synod of Ulster . 577
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 577, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/73/
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