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justly entitled , as faithfully adhering to the original principles— 'the solemnly enacted laws—and the salutary customs of our Church . " John STfTT * Esq ., seconded the reso * - lntion , which passed unanimously . The Rev . David Whyte said * as the different topics upon which he would
have dwelt , had beet ) so well explained , he would merely congratulate the Body on the harmony and brotherly love that existed among them . He regretted leaving the Synod ; and if that Body return to their own principles , as laid down in the Code of 1825 , he might hope fora re-union with them . He would move ,
10 . " That we adopt the Code of Discipline , sanctioned by the General Synod of Ulster , in 1825 , as the law of Discipline in this Church : and , to shew that we are not guided , in pursuing this course , by any vtew to promote the advancement of any set of doctrinal opinions , to the exclusion of others , we
hereby publicly and solemnly guarantee to the congregations which are under our care , and to those which may hereafter form a portion of our church , the full , free , unrestricted exercise of their unquestionable right to elect , on all cases of vacancy , ministers entertaining such views of Divine Truth , as the congregations may themselves approve . "
The Rev . John Mulligan seconded the resolution , which passed unanimously . The Rev . Thomas Alexander dwelt , at considerable length , on the rights and privileges which all should enjoy in matters of religion ; and concluded by moving the next resolution , which was unanimously agreed to *
IK >* Tbat , to secure the exercise of this great privilege in its fullest extent , the Ministers and Licentiates of the Church of Scotland , of the Synod of Ulster , the Synod of Munster , and the Presbytery of Antrim , together with the Ministers and Licentiates of any other churches * who may Ibe sufficiently recommended to us by their character and talent , their education and their aptness to teach , shall be eligible to the vacant congregations under our rare . "
The Rev . H . Montgomb&v would not , at present , detain the meeting foBg . He was persuaded that these late measures would eventually lead to pood . The elements required to be agitated that they might be purified ; states gometi mes sunk into political apathy from which they were- roused by agitaattony * " «* * he late disputes mifcht tend to purify religion . ---Th « greatest eVild had akeady
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passed . Misrepresentations and calumnies were beginning to lose their effect ; there would be a retributive re-action ; and the people , having ascertained the groundless nature of the calumnies uttered against us , would come round to our side . All the societies which had been formed to produce darkness and exclude the light , would be overturned . There was a mathematical axiom , that
the whole is greater than a part of it ; but , in reference to the General Synod of Ulster , this does not hold good . There is a Committee called the Presbyterian Society of Ireland , which is only apart of the Synod , but which is far more powerful than the Synod- Tt , too , will be put down ; it is already losing its power . He believed that nine-tenths of the Body abhorred the measures into which the state of the times had forced
them ; and he believed that both people and clergy were ripe ior a revolt . It was a very extraordinary thing , that the men who now join so readily in abhorring Arians , were formerly the obsequious attendants upon Arian leaders—that they bore the dictation of Arian masters—and
were " leashed in like hounds , to do the bidding of their lords . " Arians were then exerting themselves , in opposition to civil and religious liberty ; and those men , true to their principles , joined in the cry . The masters are changed ; but the crouching of intolerance remains the same . It had been often urged against the Remonstrants , that they were friends
to literary Committees ; but , that so soon as religion came to be named , they objected . This had been published no less than three times . We believe that it is necessary that young men should get a good education , to qualify them for the office of the ministry , and , therefore , we have prescribed a course of study . But , believing this , we do not concede
that any Committee has a right to interfere with the faith of a young man . We would have a Committee to examine , for the purpose of ascertaining whether a young man has read Iris Bible—whether he has studied it , and made himself acquainted with its contents ; but we would have no Committee to fix the precise extent or limitation of his belief .
Let the baseless calumny , therefore , never be published again ^ or , if it be , let it go to the world ., with the brand of falsehood marked upon it . As an example of the state of the times , Mr-Montgomery'referred to the case of the Cootchill congregation . In the year 1628 , the minister of that congregation , whether from his own inefficiency <>
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5 ? $ Intelligence . —Remonstrant Synod of Ulster
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 578, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/74/
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