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    fare , a $ much under the protection of the civil power as a parish church ; and , on a complaint before any magistrate of any ' persons creating an uproar , a penalty of aol . or , on the non-payment of that sum , imprisonment , wotrid have hect ^ , ; promptly executed upon the of-/ end £ r % . There would have been no inquiry on the part of the magistrate , whether the disturbance was an Arian

    carSocinian , an Athana&ian or Sabellian € > ne . The fact of the riot would have been every thing ; if that were substantiated , conviction must follow . And * we have too little reason to confide in the clemency of the society , to imagine

    that , if such had been the circumstances cf the case , the directors woujd have contented themselves with waiting till they printed a Report , and then expressing their anger in a paragraph , and threatening vengeance for the future .

    No , no ; the sentiments , and not the condtsct of the persons in question , excite the " indignation * ' of the society . The language we have quoted plainly implies , that those persons supposed that

    they were doing nothing illegal , and that in the opinion pf * the writer or writers , the doing the same thing , under other circumstances , would not kave put them out of the " protection « tf the Toleration Act . " It is their

    ** detracting from the divinity of our Lord Jesus Ckrist , " not their disturbing public worship , which calls forth the significant memento , the fearful threat of the directors . We have only conjecture to guide us , but we take the reaL fact which has chafed the managers of the society , to have been , that some persons , after

    hearing Mr . Frey , were curious to Jearn the- effect of his preaching upon some of his Jewish auditors , and took ?* opportunity , at the ciose (> f the service , to satisfy their curiosity by conversation with the objects of i $ and ( hat the doctrine of the Trinity was e-anvas . ed , arid pronounced , prohably *> n both sides , to be subversive of the Jaw of Moses . Whether the

    conversation were pertinent or impertinent , sober or extravagant , temperate or intempcrate ^ we have no means of ascertaining ; but , however this may have been , we confidently assert , that fche language of the Keport is u indecent , intolerant and unchristian . " What ! is this converted Jew infalli-

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    ble ! I * the y * w ? Cbafel to be erected into an Inquisition ? Is it for this that the patronage of the Establishment 1 $ sought ? Are the liberties of Englishmen to be abrogated by a foreigner coming into this country ^ to lisp Calvinism ? Do his supporters really claim for him the privilege , never assumed by the highest dignitaries of the churchy of passing off hi 3 notions as inspirations , his sentences as oracles ? Are tfoe

    public invited to hear , but forbidden to examine ? Is a lure throwa out to decoy the Jew into the chapel ; and is a constable provided to carry him to the watchhouse , if , as he is leaving the place , he tells an inquirer that he can acknowledge no God but Jehovah ?

    The society is on the watch , let th « weavers of Spitalfields beware . They may hear Mr . Frey , but woe unto them if they vent even in whispers their dissent from him , or utter a syllable calculated to ' « defeat the effects of his preaching . * ' They may be unsafe , not merely in the chapel , but also in the

    precincts of it!—Hopeful instruments for converting Jews 1—a German , who teaches , in broken English , that Jehp- * vah was Jesus Christ ;—a committee pi " dissenters ; - * -the patronage of the archbishop of Canterbury ;—two Acts of Parliament , enacting the deprivation of property and liberty ; and an indefinite number of spies and constables I 3 . The directors seem willing to re ^

    mind Unitarians , that they are out pi the protection of the Toleration Act . For tkis * that class of English dissenters ought to be thankful fco , them * The pains and penalties hanging over Unitarians , are , we believe , of no disservice 'to the denomination 5 as ' far as they are recollected , they unite the members of the body , otherwise unconnected ; and the sense of them will , we trust , in

    some auspicious moment , prompt the whole of them to approach Parliament , in the respectful , but firm language , of freemen , to solicit to be placed upon the

    footing of citizenshi p * We do not mean it as irony , when we say , that we arc really g ) ad when zealots re <» proach . us with what *\ ve consider reproachful on } y to our country , and what we know some of our warmest

    theological opponents lament , amongst other reasons , because it places us on . the vantage-ground of being possible sufferers for our principles *

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    H 48 Intelligence :+ —LMtlon Society for Converting tte Jew **

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/54/