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    ence of the subject was cropped ears , slit noses , and branded foreheads But that their property might be protected , as well as their persons , he levied intolerable taxes upon their houses ; and , that both prerogatives should be equally exercised , imposed countless burdens upon their consciences . At length the nation was aroused to the Eastern despotism that was exercised upon them ; they saw the legislative power engrossed by the Monarch , and

    the ancient institutions of their country violated . They called loudly for redress ; and because they were loyal , and believed that the King was misled by his advisers , petitioned his Majesty to dismiss his ministers , and with them their measures of government . But as this failed to produce the desired effect , they refused to comply with the royal exactions , until their representatives were recalled to their legitimate duties . The King , who , so long as money was to be obtained , was deaf to the cries of his injured subjects , was

    roused to their requests by the emptiness of his treasury and the importunity of his courtiers ; he yielded to necessity what he denied to principle ; he convoked the Parliament > and between him and that assembly a long score was to be settled . The mind of the people was embodied , and they had now the power as well as courage to act . They were resolved to secure to themselves their rightful share of the legislative power , to set boundaries to the ] : > rerogative , and to redress the national wrongs . As the dignitaries and

    priests of the Church had been the principal cause of their sufferings , they determined to punish the offending ecclesiastics , and to reform the Church , so as to prevent a recurrence of similar events . During all this the King was treated with the utmost respect and loyalty ; but that unhappy prince , fearful of this curtailment of his influence , and indignant at the supposed insult offered to his royalty , opposed their designs , declared war against his

    subjects , and because few of his own injured people would rally round his standard , he ingloriously hired an Irish banditti to shed the blood of those whose interests he had already so grossly wronged . The Parliament were , however , firm to their trust , the army raised by them were men actuated by a love of liberty and hatred of tyranny ; they fought in defence of their rights , and prevailed . The ignominious and untimely , and it may be unnecessary , death of the Monarch , closed the tragedy .

    * ' Charles II . and James II . were not less the advocates of the prerogative than their unhappy relative , and , by the manner in which they exercised it upon the religious liberties of the people , have obtained and deserve the name of tyrants . In perusing the history of their reigns , nothing is more prominent than the fact that , throughout , the sovereign and subject were arrayed in violent , relentless hostility to each other ; so much so , that the ties of society , country , and even humanity , appear to have been loosened and well nigh torn asunder . We know of no history which presents so entire and lamentable an epitome of the consequences of the system . "—Pp . 209—213 .

    It would be difficult to find any institution in the history of the world which is less efficient for the promotion of its avowed objects , or more productive of evils which , as a Christian institution , it must profess to deprecate , than the Established Church . The men most celebrated for humble piety and holy zeal in the discharge ef their pastoral duties , have been found

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    The C / iurch Establishment founded in Error . 525

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1831, page 525, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2600/page/21/