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    nour of the age in which tve live . I trust , however , the time draws ne&fr when aJl deprivations of civil rights , on account of religious sentiment , and everv shade of religious intolerance , will for ever cease , and wh £ ij Christians of ever > sect will consider that it is

    ii Bold arrogance to snatch from heave ft : Dominion not to mortals given : O * er conscience to usurp the throne ,. Accountable to God alone . " I am acquainted with many Catholics whose private characters do honour to their Christian profession , and

    whose candour and liberality may well put to the blush the arrogant pretensions , the wilful misrepresentations , and the illiberal , unchristian reflections of many Protestants , who make a boast that theirs is the only evangelical creed .

    In proof of my opinion , permit me to request the insertion in your Repository , of two notes which passed between the Catholic Priest of this town and myself , occasioned , as you will see , by an interchange of books . They were dictated solely from motives

    of friendship , without the slightest view to their meeting * the public 6 y £ . Having been advised by several of my friends , and particularly by one , a zealous and enlightened advocate of civil , and religious liberty , ( Mr . William Gaskell , ) now , alas ! no more ,

    ( see Obituary , p . 194 , ) to insert them in your Repository ; and hoping that they may not be wholly useless iti removing mistaken prejudices , 1 have obtained the consent of my Catholic friend to their being uriade public . And he farther declares , that the

    sentiments he has expressed are likewise the sentiments of the general body of Catholics . An insertion in your next Number , if it suit vour convenience , will oblige ,

    HOL . BROOK GASKELL . " Mr . IToIbrook Gaskell desires his respects to- Mr . Molineux . He is much obliged by the perusal of the Catholic ' s Manual , ( by the Rev . John Fletcher , ) which he believes will be of considerable

    use , in removingmany existing- and unfounded prejudices in Protestants , regarding" the opinions , the discipline and the practices of the Catholics . However H- G . may differ in sentiment , on moat of Me doctrines of the Catholic * , he wish ** ft * eta full toleration , and a relief from &U P » i" *>

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    $ 86 Correspondence between Mr . H . Guskell

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    "Warring ton , Sin , March 16 , 1819 . AS the subject of the Catholic Claims is again exciting the public attention , and as , in consequence , thr enemies of civil and religious libert y are again labouring in

    their accustomed st \ le of falsehood , calumny and abuse , to vilify and slander the principles and intentions of the Catholics , representing them as desirous of extended liberty , only that they may eventually attain an ascendancy in the affairs of the Church and the State , and that one of their

    established rules is , that faith may not bfj kept with heretics , I have great pleasure in bearing my willing testimony in favour of a numerous class # f Christians , who have long been persecuted with a degree of bigotry discreditable to their opponents , and inconsistent with that increase of re Itaftra * knowledge which is the ho-

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    ** In offeringthese imperfect observations , in lieu of what Mr Mead ley himself , if he had had the opportunity , . would ha * ve done with much more force and propriety , the writer hopes that no expression has dropped from his pen either unbecoming * in itself ^ or disrespectful to the Reverend Author of the Protest . At least lie is sure

    that nothing * was farther from his intention . life presumes not . to question Dr . Gray ' s right to put what sense may appear to him the true one ' upon the texts which he has quoted : but as he has charged Mr

    Meadley with holding- opinions directly opposite to them 5 it has been the wish of the present writer to shew that this is not necessarily the ease , because Dr . Gray has said so .

    ** In conclusion , he begs leave sincerely to lament the dissensions which liave lately taken place ; and to express his deep regret that political or religious differences should so often interrupt the

    pleasing intercourses of society , and pre * vent that cordial co-operation of persons of all parties in the carrying on of schemes for the general good , with which such differences ought to have no concern , "E . R "

    And thus for the present the matter rests . But it is said that a Reply is announced , and the Rev . W . Ettrick is printing- a large octavo volume . Of course , the three clergymen have roused a spirit of discussion , which cannot fail to be ultimately advantageous to the cause of truth V . F .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 286, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/6/