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    fa certainly entitled to every possible attention ; and were it in my power to remove his difficulties entirely , no pains for that purpose should be spared .

    But such an expectation would be as unreasonable as to require that all evil should be instantaneously banished from the creation . The proper question is , are the difficulties which embarrass the ¦

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    To the Editor of * the Monthly Repository , r

    SIR , The good intention and the liberal wishes expressed by your correspondent G . in your last

    number , justify me in supposing that he will pardon any freedom that may be employed in coin , bating the arguments he has used , I most fully grant to him the justice of the claim of Dissenters to

    the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts ; but I question the propriety of their taking any steps at present to agitate the subject ; and < leem it peculiarly improper in Unitarians , in their religious character , to shew any zeal for

    political systems . Their duties as Unitarians , are different from their obligations as citizens ; and if they mix what they owe to Caesar with what belongs to God , they will defeat the good they are

    solicitous to effect , and expose themselves to t { ie same reproof they advanced against the advocates for an establishment . Our politics should as much as possible be

    detached from our sectarian creeds , * t we would invite investigation , 2 nd lessen the prejudices of our opponents . To Mr . WyvilL ' s appeal every praise is clue . It b «~

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    schemes of natural and revealed religion sufficient to overbalance the evidence of their truth ? Or can any system be erected on the ruins of natural and revealed

    religion , which shall contain , on the whole , greater marks of truth or probability ? - ^ I remain , Sir , Your ' Sj respectfully , R . ALLCHIM .

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    came the candid ^ the liberal ^ the enlightened clergyman to endeavour to remove a source of anxiety from the mind of a conscientious brother . It was consistent

    with th £ long tried , persevering ^ and indefatigable advocate for reform , to endeavour to free the church to which he belongs from , the charge of illiberal ] ty and

    intolerance . But Mr . Wyvill wished that his petition should be signed only by members of the church of England . Respect therefore to the intention of the friend of freedom would fully jus * tify dissenters in not interfering at present in any application for the removal of obnoxious statutes .

    But more cogent reasons may be assigned for forbearance . The claims of dissenters are already before the public . They have been discussed in the senate and

    defended by the press . Their cause has been supported by some of the most celebrated writers ^ and soltae of the most distinguished advocates for civil and religious liberty . What was the effectof the arguments advanced ?—^ Abuse I What the result of the general sentiment of the several

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    Mr . WyciVPs Petition . 355

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    MR . WYVILL ' S PETITION .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/31/