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      only to extend the views of the London clergyj and encourage them la further attempts at the attainment of what they are pleased to call their ancient rig-tits . ' " Allhallows the Great : i 6 Resolved unanimously , That ' the obyious inteet of the clergy is to apply from time to time to Parliament , in order

      ultimately to obtain what they declared themselves entitled to , viz . 2 s . 9 d . in the pound , and that their present application is to double the sums which Parliament , in its wisdom , iu the year 1804 , granted to them , making * the amount of the fixed stipend in no case less than £ 400 . and £ 670 ^ in the hig-hest , independently of all glebes and perquisites .

      " Resolved unanimously , That it is the opinion of this Vestry , that the clergy in general have at present sufficient , and in some cases more than sufficient for the duty they perform ; that in many cases the clergy are , non-resident , and have other Church preferment , and the property

      attached to their glebe considerable ; and tbat the cases of smaller stipends are only adduced as a stepping-stone for increasing the whole , whether deservedly or not 5 so that in certain cases , livings which are already almost sinecures are still farther to he increased in value , by a heavier burden on the parishioners . "

      St . Gregory by St . Paul : u Resolved unanimously , That by ibe Act of the 37 th of Henry the Eighth , it was directed , that the decree to be made under such Act should be enrolled in the Court of Chancery ; but the same not having been so done , it is fairly presumed ,

      tbat the clergy , as they did not enforce the execution of such decree , abandoned the same , being themselves conscious of the oppressive burden it imposed on the people ; and this Vestry cannot but view with the deepest concern the clergy of the pie-1

      sent day zealously endeavouringto reestablish such claim , which must be productive of a spirit of disunion , highly prejudicial to the best interests of religion , and mill materially tend to draw the great body of the people from the Established Church .

      " Resolved , That this Vestry deeply regrets that a body of Protestant clergy of the Church of England should be induced to adopt a course of proceedings in which it is much easier to recognize an attempt to enlarge the benefits already derived

      from the revival of a Jongf-exploded and arbitrary giant , than the spirit of Christian humility and disinterestedfiess which is much better befitting- their sacred character 1 and tfiat this Vestry cannot sufficiently reprobate the money-get ting spirit

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      which has marked this whole of their measures pending these proceedings ? The united parishes of St . Michael , Wood Street , and St . Mary , Staining : " Resolved , That this Vestry laments that the efforts of the clergy are not so

      much directed to objects of benevohnce and patriotism as to the increase of their own emoluments , and that' they leave the support of the religion of the country , for which they are so amply paid : chiejly to sectaries- "

      The resolutions which we have thus brought together , furnish matter for an additional chapter in the second edition of Mr . BenthanVs " Churchof-Englandrsm "

      One reflection must occur to every reader , a reflection , indeed , which is excited by almost every newspaper , namely , that there exists amongst us in the present day an unexampled degree of public spirit . Various causes niay be assigned for it ; our civil and political institutions , recent

      convulsions , present distresses , universal education and a diversity o ^ religious sects : but the consequences of it no one can foretel , though it would seem allowable to predict that they will be favourable to freedom , truth and virtue . E .

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      ^ " ^¦¦^¦ i ^ w ^^ - — The Nonconformist . No . VIIL On the Intolerance of the Dissenters , usually denominated " Orthodoxy " as compared with that of the Established Churches .

      fTHHE great cause of all honest In-B tolerance , is the persuasion that belief in certain opinions is requisite to the attainment of future bliss . Those who entertain this idea must , in consistency , desire that the inquiries of their fellows should be restrained

      within peculiar limits . Some of them may imagine the circle within which the mind may expatiate with safety , to be more extensive than others , but all must ahke feel that there are points , beyond which there is only

      one path to be chosen , without the most fearful danger . As the range of liberality is extended , the absurdity of the reverse proportioiiably increases . Of all those who deny toman perfect liberty pf thought , or refuse to allow

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      *\ - . ¦ The Nonconformist . No . VIII . 171

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/35/