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    M essiah , who is to reign upon earthy a thousand years . After this Satan is to be let loose , and there is to be the insurrection of Gog and Magog , and their destruction by fire , when the day of judgment will close the scene .

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    Isle of Wight , Sir , April 11 , 1819-BEG leave to hand you for inser-I tion in your Repository , a certificate of a marriage in December 1653 , differing in some respects from that communicated by > our correspondent

    W . Hincks , in your last Number , ( p . 15 S , ) as it states that the ceremony was performed not only before , but by a justice of the peace , and that the banns were published three several market-days iu the market-place : thus making marriage what it should be , simply a civil compact , and giving a

    publicity to the ceremony which was rendered the less disputable under the Commonwealth by means of a register appointed to be kept in every parish . The following extract is taken from the register of St . Mary ' s , Whitechapel :

    " Julius Wood , of Nightingale-lane , in this parish , mariner , and Martha Wag-gdon , of tlie same , widdow , were published in the market-place , at Leaden-hall , three severall inaiket-days , in three severall weeks , ( v \ z . ) on the 16 th day , on the 19 th day , and on

    the 26 th day of December , 1653 and the said Julius Wood and Martha Waggdon were married l > y me , Richard Loton , Esq ., and justice of peace in the County of Middlesex , on the 26 th day of December , 1653 . Edward Callis and Tobias Harborough , witnesses present . "

    In regard to this subject I would just observe , that whatever change we may wish to see made in the Marriage Service as performed by the clergy of this country , the publicity of the ceremony should be most strictly preserved , as by an adherence to this part of the

    established form , we shall , I conceive , be more likely to effect any alteration which it may be thought desirable to be made . In common with many of your readers I consider marriage a religious duty , the observance of

    which ought not to depend necessarily on the performance of any religious ceremony , but which , for certain political reasons it is indispensably necessary should be publicly solemnized by the . civil . magistrate , ( as in

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    the days of Cromwell , ) without the interposition of the clergy . With this belief I am happy in witnessing the efforts which the Unitarians of the day are now making on this subject , and sincerely hope they may be effectual . I am glad to-see it

    taken up as a matter of conscience . It is certainly most important in this view to Dissenters generally , but especially to the Unitarian . Him it behoves to think well on this point before he acts , and not to give a sanction by his actions to a practice which his conscience condemns . Let

    him be consistent . We are to recollect that it is only by the determined conduct of individuals that any thing affecting a society generally can ever be expected to be accomplished , and that it therefore becomes the duty of every one professing his attachment to the interests of religious liberty , to use his utmost endeavours to diffuse

    its blessings as extensively as his means will permit . In relation to the present subject , the married may do much by an expression of opinion , but the greater support may be expected from the unmarried in protesting without fear ( as many have done ) at the altar , against this oppression on the consciences of their

    fellowworshipers . J . C . P . S . In the Morning Chronicle of Thursday , April 9 , 181 9 , I was sorry to notice the refusal of the Editor to

    publish the copy of a Protest against the Church Ceremony of Marriage , presented by Mr . Fearon ( author of Travels in America ) to the Ciergyman at West Hana , Essex , at the time of his marriage , ( See pp . 272 , £ 73 . )

    This refusal on the ground " that the parties might have been satisfied to have kept their scruples to themselves , " savours too much of worldly policy in the Editor of a paper otherwise deservedly looked upon as an impartial and independent journalist .

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    York , Sir , April 14 , 181 9-rriHE able Review of Mr . Wellbe-_ JL loved ' s Sermon on Instantaneous Conversion , ( pp . 184—187 , ) will , I hope ,, excite additional interest to the subject , ftlid induce such of your readers as may not already have seen the discourse itself , to read H with atteii-

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    Certificate ofa Btarriagi in 1653 * £ 9 *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/11/