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€ T . The case is a different one . Hold your peace , sir . * C . It is the law , sir , that you shall pay . * T . I hate all unjust , tyrannical laws . It is amazing that they should daj& ^ even to think of enforcing sucfta law as this . That a great and affluent C 3 a « ich like ours should support the worship of the Sectarians ! Why , it is unbearable ! * C . It is said , sir , that one good turn deserves another . And , as they have supported the Church for ages , the "Whigs thought it would be equitable , at least for a few years , to give them a helping hand . * T * Equitable indeed ! If you are not more careful , I shall chastise you For your msefence . 'I will not give them a farthing . Let them support their own worship . lam for all sects supporting their own worship . * C . This , sir , was not your mind , when , by your authority , I used to seize on the goods of the Quakers . * T , Things are altered . Know your place , sir ! I shall not be taught by you ! * C . I beg pardon , sir . I did not mean to offend you . I only observed , that by your full good-will , I have seized on the Quakers for many years . You know it has been quite a regular thing . * T . How often must I tell you that things are altered ? I will never submit to the rate for the support of the Dissenting worship . 4 They have submitted for ages to support yours . * T . We compelled them , or they would not . * C . Now they will compel you . * T . But they preach errors . * C . That is what they say of you . You say you preach the true Gospel ; hut it is a very different Gospel from that Mr .. S . preaches in the next parish . Now , one of you must be wrong , and which is it ; you , or your evangelical brother ?
* T . I cannot pay it conscientiously . * Cm So they said , sir ; and , therefore , you gave me warrants to seize on their jjoods . You know I took two bags of wheat , a few weeks since , from Beaulieu Mill , by your warrant , for church-rates . * * T . That is true ; it was according to law . * C . Well , the law is now altered . The liberal "Whigs have given the church-rate to the Quakers and Dissenters . You are not to receive it any longer . 4 I will never pay it . Why , our churches will be ruined without the
rates ' C . . Why , Sir , their churches are not ruined ; and they have paid , instead of receiving them , a great many years . Indeed , I think they have got stronger and stronger , so far from being ruined . * T % I shall not pay * thetn ; so go about your business . 4 I am about that ; you should submit to the laws . You used to say ,
non-submission was rebellion . * T . But then the Church had the rate , which makes all the difference . Kates on the Church to support the worship of the Dissenters , are most unreasonable and tyrannical . * We won ' t submit to them . ' Cm You used to say that these things were right from the Jewish laws . * T . Yes , if we had the proceeds . The Old Testament dispensation is superseded ; and , if it were not , I would not pay . Begone;—John , show this fellow the door 1 On a subsequent application , the collector seizes ; but , according to our author , the Dissenters decline the proceeds . * This is matter of fact . '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 216, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/72/
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