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and it has freeu the custom for a Presbyterian minister to read the address . ! It is not his address , but that of the body ; and it : is so considered by the King . and his ' a Ministers ,. He is the mere instrument of the body . Ob any future occasion * an . Independent or a Baptist may he the servant of the body , and have the
honour ( If he ; think it an honour ) to kiss tbe Kjug ' s band * in token of affection to his Majesty * What crime is there in this ? What blame is to be attached to , those who desire to express the feelings of attachment cherished by all classes of Dissenters for a . Monarch under the reign of whose illustrious house the religious liberties of mankind have been preserved and . extended ?
. " There is no crime anywhere , and there ought to be no blame j and this is not a , tiaie for the Dissenters of England , acting in a civiL capacity , to split themselves into factions , and thus to tender themselves a prey to the arts of their cunning and inveterate foes * , It was , by union they secured the repeal of the Teat and Corporation * Acts ,, and
helped to pull down the wait of partition which prevented their entrance with the Word of God into the understandings and , the hearts of the Roman Catholica of England and Ireland . It was by union that : they secured the return of Mr . Brougham and Lord Ebritigtou to Fan * liament . It will be by union that they
will- roaUe their influence to be felt ,, and their energies so to tell , as to secure the destruction of colonial slavery ; and toy union , and union alone , will they be able to , secure the destruction of a ) L those monopolies by which the pvogress . of ciiviiiQ truth is impeded in this and all other lands .
" The monopolists have sense enough , to unite when their craft is in danger . Do the , Bishops of the Chucch of England agree in opinion on points of theology ? Did this hinder them from combining their energies when . Lord IVlountcashel proposed to reform the Church ? Did this prevent them frona uniting to address tlaftThrone ? It was not necessary they should agree ; nor is
it necessary that the Disseuterjs of En - gland should agnee o » the highest poiuts of divinity , to enable them to express their loyalty to the King * or to cojirbin « i their energies in order to secura the most perfect degree of ci \ U and ; religious liberty , which ^ t may be iu their power by ) any * means to obtain for themselves and their descendant ? . "< Do . wa want a . ^ roof oj ; the i mppr * taace of union to secure ; a common ob-
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ject ? The existence of this paper , affords it , No one of the many Christian sects , whose common interests we haw espoused , ever thought this journal of sufficient importance to i induce them to make a strenuous individual effort to support it . It is by good men of all sects * and
by the various ; talents of all , that we haye been enabled to maintain our ground . Episcopalians , Catholics , Jews , Unitarians , Moravians ,. Quakers , Methodists , Baptists , Independents , have all helped and are still helping , to establish , a free organ of communication between them all . We have sought their common in-.
Merest , and , in pursuing it , we have found our o * vn . Without a free press ,, devoted to the great cause of civil and religious freedom , they were a rope of sand . They have now , by their separate and united aid , preserved something which will bind them together in the protection of their common rights , in defence of their
commou character , * n pursuit of their common interest . We owe them our best service , and we perform it when we tell them to suspect eyen themselves , when they feel disposed to split tjieir community into factions . Let each one think for himself ou matters of high moment
to the , eternal destinies oi himself and his . kinc ]; but let himv not injure , persecute , or eve ** offend another who dares also to exercise his understanding and his conscience ^ and freely to express bis opinions , be they what they may . To hia own master he must stand or fall . Who
art thou to judge thy brother ? We must all . stand before the judgment seat of Christ . * How can JLuite beings expect to settle that which is infinite ? Who authorized man to punish his erring brother for disagreement , with him in opinion ? It , is conduct alone which men
may juqge . and punish . But he who says , ' because I do not agjree with yon in opinion on . a subject of the highest importance , therefore I will not allow you to exercise your rights as a maw , I will separate myself altogether from you , does iu effect say , ' Sta . » d by , for I am holier aud wiser than thou . "
" Dissenters of England , act you like Christians—like men . Assert your freedom , exercise it , allow it to others ; and suffer not the enemies of your liberty to destroy you by so vying the seeds of
disunion among you . The Son of God is able to maintain the dignity of his own character ; and if he permit those whom you deem his enemies , to . live and to prosper , and if he command you to treat the most erring and the moat abandoned of his creatures with courtesy and kind-
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646 Intelligence . — Addresses to the King- and Queen *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1830, page 646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2588/page/62/
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