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    Xhe Committee To Whom The Application To...

    think" as * one , of her creeds thinks , and that he who ' without doubt _perish everlastingly . " _. : _xeiects r ife ! -1 _* _* _shStt ' ' ' '¦" ' ! t ' " "¦' ¦* . i _.: _I-I ; _iovi

    These , and some others whk _^ might be mentk _«* e < r , aregrave _propositions ; and thel > _ksenter to niark his conscientious disapproval of them , firmly tiut temperately withdraws himself from the fellowship of the Church , and refuses that assent which joining in its worship and services would imply . In former times he suffered persecution iu the assertion of his right to follow the

    dictates of his judgment _; in a wiser age he has been protected in his dissent ; he has always for conscience' sake resigned that claim to an equal _participation in the honours and rewards of the State which conformity would give

    him ; and if such be the voluntary course of his conduct , can it be otherwise than a violation of his liberty of thought and action , to compel him to give that practical assent to the discipline , authority , and scriptural purity of the Church , which he on ail other occasions refuses ? True , he has not carried his protest against the principle so far as the Catholics , who have even sacrificed the legitimacy of their offspring to the assertion of their

    religious rights ; he has thought himself justified in weighing the consequences ; and though he gives up for himself tiie common rights of citizenship , to follow what he considers the path of duty , he conceives that , in this particular , a still more imperious duty calls upon him to bow to the necessity which morality and the well-being of society impose upon him in the present state of the law ; but surely he is not on that account a less fit object for consideration and relief .

    If the man whQ dissents from the mere discipline of the verned _^ by _conscientious principles , why does he not join in and thus escape the rigour of the Sacramental Test ? If it ana tnus escape every JOissenter " " every JOissenter would conscientiously scrupleany such authority , discipline , and services of the Establishment as in partaking of does it still work its intended effect ? the rigour any of its of the Sacramental Test ? If it was _ordinances , why was such a teat recognition of the ¦ . v " - > - . , . « ¦ would be implied imposed , and why Church is not goanother of its rites , not known that ' , v' - *• • .

    In the eye of the law all the < conscientious scruples" that were till lately recognized were scruples to the discipline of the Church . The Toleration Act relieves such and only such ; the Schoolmasters' Act exempted the parties merely from the consequence of such _objections , and it was reserved for the last reign to recognize any sort of attention to doctrinal differences .

    With these only a careful perusal of 1 partial _consideration of " th candid and liberal inquiry _, to any one form of relief , M observations the Committee dismiss the subject , recommending perusal of the ensuing debate , and earnestly _intreating an _imiratioh of the measure to wlic _^ lt relates . They _\ v _^ h only f _& ir They desire to stew no _pertina _^ y tlie mode of _v _^^ _IJfey are _^ Ufibg reatmg an _lm-\ v _^ h only _& i of _^ _tachmeiit to leave , _Nwh

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 12, 1823, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_12061823/page/9/