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wealth and poverty will be corrected ; that knowledge will diffuse itself amongst all classes in all regions , inspiring personal dignity , the forerunner of social happiness ; that government will be only law in beneficial exercise , and that law will be an expression of the common reason and will ; and that ,
partly as cause and partly as effect of all these glorious results , Christianity will be known and received in its simplicity and purity , and Religion and Virtue will walk the earth , hand in hand , joint protectors of man ' s peace and happiness , and his guides from earth to heaven , where alone man and society will be made perfect . "—Pp . 18—20 .
We add the concluding wishes and prayers , so worthy of the Christian patriot and philanthropist , and in which we are sure our readers will heartily and solemnly unite * ' * Emboldened by these hopes , let it be our fervent wish and solemn prayer , and consequently our strenuous endeavour and constant aim , that our country may be first in the race of nations for the prize of true and enduring fame , but that there may be no competition between our own and
other nations , except that which in its exercise shall be healthful and in its issue beneficial to all . Here , if it be the pleasure of the Most High ,, may the general voice command only what is true and right , and public opinion be the inviolable sanctuary of freedom . May Peace , settled , universal , longcontinued Peace , heal all the wounds inflicted by War , and be the harbinger of every other national blessing . May Industry be willing and its reward bountiful . May Commerce spread its prosperous sail , and our merchants €
be the honourable , ' by being the virtuous , of the earth . ' May Science bring forth new aids to art , and art multiply the comforts of social life . May Knowledge be a common property and blessing . May all orders of men , in their several degrees , be at . once the strength and the ornament of the state . May no violence give a shock to our civil and political institutions , nor any fundamental change be made in them , but by the calm reason and determined will of an united people . Upon the King ' s head may the crown
flourish ; may his life be continued to the utmost limit that nature allows ; and may his reign be numbered amongst the brightest eras of our national annals . May the Queen Consort and the various members of the Royal Family make an ample return for their privileges and immunities by co-operating for the public good . May the nobles of the land verify their titles and sustain their rank by being high examples of patriotism . May the representatives of the people be faithful to their charge by consulting the people ' s true and lasting interests . May the expounders and administrators of the
law look only to the protection of the commonwealth . May the arm of justice never be raised by passion , nor strike without discrimination , nor become habituated to extreme severity . May the United Kingdom in all its members be animated by one heart . May our scattered colonies and dependencies be united to the mother country by the ties of gratitude and hope ; and may those tribes and classes amongst them who have known us only by the weight of our power , be recompensed by our justice and won to true reconcilement by our benevolence and mercy . May our various Christian
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782 Coronation Sermons .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 732, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/8/
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