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this year , the fallowing paragraph occurs : — . < We congratulate you on the aU-important change which has lately taken place in your body , freeing you from those who deny the only Lord God and Redeemer Jesus Christ , so that now , in tne unity of the spirit in Christ Jesus , ypu will be able to live in the bonds of
peace : ' that as the libellous , unfounded , and unchristian reflections contained in this paragraph , can only have reference to the Remonstrants constituting this Synod , a Committee be appointed to draw up a . refutation of the insulting calumny , and to transmit it , with a sole in u remonstrance , to the General Assembly of Presbyterians in America . "
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Marriage Protest . To the Editor . Pleasley 9 near Mansfield , Sir , Sept . 21 , 1831 . On Wednesday , the 24 th ult ., at Pleasley , Charles , second son of Henry Talbot , of Oakland , in the county of \ Vorcester , was married to Marianne , eldest daughter of Henry Hollius , of PJeasley , in the county of Derby . The
parties being Unitarian Dissenters , and objecting as well to the form of the service as to the right of society to impose any religious ceremony , protested against the service , before the solemnization took place . I am desired to request you will insert the protest in the next Repository , with the reasons which induced the parties to consider it necessary . HENRY HOLLINS , Jun .
Copy of the Protest , We , the undersigned , being desirous of entering into the married state , but objecting to the ceremony the law imposes , in order to render the contract legal and binding , consider it our duty formally to protest against the marriage service on the following grounds ' :
1 st ' . That as religious worship is a duty owing by mau to his Maker , the exercise of it should in every case be left perfectly free and unconstrained ; and that society has no right to impose any form of ( devotion as a passport to a state which , by the law of nature and of
God , is a right common to all . 2 ndly . That the marriage service establitihed by la \ y contains doctrines which we consider unscriptural and untrue , and therefore in submitting to it without protesting against the same , we should be guilty of dissimulation , and of what
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would be , with our religious views , a solemn mockery . We therefore now solemnly protest agaiust the right of the legislature to impose any such ceremony as the marriage service , and declare that we submit to it merely from necessity , without sanctioning the doctrines it contains .
CHARLES TALBOT , MARIANNE HOLLINS Pleasley , August 23 , 1831 .
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British and Foreign Bible Society . In reference to the Questions , raised at the last Anniversary of the Society , relative to the use of Oral Prayer and restriction on the Right of Membership , the Committee have printed the
following List of One Hundred and Twenty-two Societies and Associations adverse to any Alteration in the Constitution of the Society , The Committee having received , from various Auxiliary and Branch Societies
and Bible Associations , communications expressive of their concurrence in the views of the Constitution of the Society contained in the last Annual Report , and deprecating attempts to introduce any alterations therein , think it their duty to apprize the friends of the Society of the quarters whence such communications have proceeded .
Abingdon Auxiliary , Alcester Ladies ' Association , Anglesea Auxiliary , Banbury Auxiliary , Bawtrey Auxiliary , Bermondsey an 4 St . John ' s Association , Birmingham Auxiliary , Bishop Wearmouth and Sunderland Auxiliary , Blackheath Auxiliary , Bolton Auxiliary , Boston Auxiliary , Bourn Auxiliary , Bradford ( Yorkshire ) Auxiliary , Bristol Auxiliary ,
Bucks ( North ) Auxiliary , Callington Branch , Cambridge Auxiliary , Canterbury Auxiliary , Chapel-en-le-Frith Auxiliary , Chelmsford and West-Essex Auxiliary , Cheshire Auxiliary , Chesterfield and Scarsdale Auxiliary , Ghristchurch ( Southwark ) Association , Cinque-Ports ' Auxiliary , Coggeshall Branch , Cornwall Auxiliary , Cumberland and Carlisle
Auxiliary , Darlington Auxiliary , Devon and Exeter Auxiliary , Diss Branch , Doncaster Auxiliary , Dudley Auxiliary , Dunmow Branch , Durham Auxiliary , Ely ( Isleof ) Auxiliary , Essex f South-West ) Auxiliary , Eve sham Auxiliary , Evesham Ladies' Association , Falmouth Branch , Farnham Auxiliary , Feversharo Ladies ' Association , Frome Auxiliary , Golden Square Association , Graveseud Branch ,
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J 94 - Intelligence . * —British and Foreign Bible Society .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 794, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/70/
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