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otherwise , was about to separate from his people . They had chosen another minister ; but there was an ariear of stipend due to the former minister , which the people were not able to ^ pay * and the young minister was , in
consequence , not an the receipt of bounty , as the other still retained his right . This case came forward at Synod , just after the passing of the Overtures . The minister and congregation were orthodox . jVlr . Montgomery opened a subscription to relieve them , and all the Remonstrant
ministers contributed liberally-- ; - and yet this very congregation , the next year , sent forward a memorial demanding that the . se their benefactors should be expelled from the Synod . The case was trifling , but it shewed that there existed a deplorable spirit , which they should labour to remove from the country . He then moved ,
12 . " That , ? iw order to cultivate * as far as lieth in us , a spirit of Christian liberality and good-will , the ministers o > f the religious bodies referred to in . the preceding resolution , may , at all times , be invited to sit and . deliberate with us iu our Church Courts , and to join with us in the affectionate intercourse of ministerial services and Christian companion . " :
The Rev . Flf / tcher Blakri ^ y seeaudcd the resolution , wlich passed unanimously . The Synod adjourned till ten o ' clock next day . ( The conclusion of the proceedings is unavoidably postponed till out' next No . )
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General Sytiod of Ulster . The Annual Meeting of this Body was held at Otnagh , in * he County of Tyrone , on the last Tuesday of June , and five following days . The Remonstrant ministers were no longer present as members of Synod ; but a deputation from them attended for the purpose of adju 8 tu ? # > some ruatters of detail left , unsettled in the late separation .
The first b * f * i » H \ ss of any importance , which cawe before the meeting * related to the clerkship . It will be lecoUected that this office wag held by the Rev .. William Porter , of Newtovvulimavady . When the Genera ) $ yi » od > had passed and fonuujly refused to repeal a law for preventing the ordinatiom of any ministers hereafter , in congregations under its charge , except such a » nhould give satisfaction ta a committe « ten » povv « red to inquire into their belief of the doctvittes of
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the Trinity , Original $ 3 * , Justification by Faith , and Regeneration by the Wolf Spirit , —Mr . Porter , < as one of the Remonstrants against the Overture , declared his i ntetitioa of surrendering up his office as cleric and retiring from all connexion with the Body . This resolution has now been carried into effect .
It reflects honour on the times hi vsfeich we Ike , that it has been resolved , 6 y men of all creed ? and classes , not to permit him to suffer a dimunition of income by the loss of his situation . > We understand that considerable progress has been made in raising funds for purchasing an annuity equal in value to the salary which he has resigned , and that he will soon be waited on with a request that he will accept of this indemnity .
The following address < delivered by Mr . Porter , on this occasion , cannot fail to > interest our readers . The Rev . William Porter , ih resigning the office of Clerk to the General Synod of Ulster , spoke to the following effect :
•*—** It will be recollected , Moderator , that at the last meeting of this Reverend Body , I announced iny determination to adopt a certain procedure at thepnesmt ; and , according to the established coarse of Synodical business > now is the proper time for carrying that determination into effect During the intermediate space ,
the moment which has now arrived , has been to me the subject of many a painful anticipation . The moment baa arrived , when a regard to principle , and a wish to preserve consistency of jchaaaacter , constrain me to resign the official situation which I hold , and to say , ' farewell ! ' to the General Synod of Iftster ^—to dissolve a connexion which has
subsisted for nearly thirty-four > years-t ** to separate myself from a charch , for whose ministry I was educated , and whose very name I was reared to reverence- ~ - a church with which my early views , and plans , and ideal preftgiirations of smccess in life , were intimately associated- — a diurch , under whose cane my best and happieat days have been spent ; with some of whose members my sweetest and moat confidential intimacies , have
been formed , and . the recurrence of whose annual meetings was always a refroshuimitf to my spirit ; - * -tbe rending asunder a oonoexion such as this , gives a wrench < to some of the : moet sensitive fil > it ? s that twine thomeelves around the btftfrt of ittflii . Jiut , 8 ir > the yeremptury call of dnty must bo obeyed . Where principle is involved , feelings mast be b « eimpressed . Neither conscience nor
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Intdligmce , S ( —General ynod tf Ulster ff 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 579, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/75/
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