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    their sentiments to apply for certificates under the terms of the said act } which requires them to be certified and to declare themselves as dissenting Ministers .

    VK That the offices alluded to in the fourth resolution , are an essential part of the economy of our societies , which has for its object , the instruction of the Ignorant and the relief of the Miserable , rather then the creation ot

    extension of a distinct sect of religion ; and without whose aid the various chapels of our societies in the united kingdom , which have cost an immense sum of money in their erection , cannot . be supported .

    VII . That our chapels have been built and large sums of money , due upon the same , for which the respective trustees are now responsible , have been lent and advanced under the most perfect

    confidence that our system , so necessary for their support , would remain undisturbed ; and that those rights of conscience , which our most gracipus Sovereign on his

    accession to the throne , declared should be maintained inviolable , would , in this happy and enlightened country , ever be held sacred and preserved uninfringed . '

    VIII . That it does not appear to us 3 that the present toleration laws are either so ineffectual , or the interpretation of them so uncertain , as to render any bill necessary to explain them , much less to curtail the benefits intended

    to be conveyed by them . ; but on the other hand we are satisfied , that if the present bill should pass , the whole law of religious toleration will become more obscure , and its meaning more uncertain ; and thus a fruitful source of litigation and oppression will be opened .

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    IX . That the returns of the archbishops and bishops , of the number of places for divine wor . ship , &c . in their respective di 0 " ceses , upon which the present measure appears to be founded are far from furnishing evidence

    of the necessity of restricting the operations of religious societiesbut , on the contrary , they con ' tain the most decisive pvoot ^ ( froi the inadequacy of the parish churches to contain the inhabit . ants of the kingdom ) that the in .

    creasing population calls , for all the means of religious instruction which well disposed persons , ofc all denpminations of Christians , have in their power to afford . X , That frona the manifest

    effect which the diffusion of religion has had for the last fifty years , in raising the standard of public morals , and in promoting loyalty in the middle ranks , as well as

    subordination and industry in the lower orders of society , which so powerfully operate upon the na . tional prosperity ancj public spirit , we dread the adoption of any measure which can in the least weaken

    these great sinews of the nation , or restrain the patriotic efforts oi any of the religious communities of the country . XI . That as we deprecate the

    consequences of the bill as it now stands , so we cannot see that any modification of it can meet the views of its right honourable and

    noble proposer ( whose character we highly respect ) without essentially deteriorating the indefeasible rights and privileges of those who are the objects of the

    toleration Jaws * XII . That inasmuch as this act will most deeply affect our societies ,, whose moral character ana

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    ¦ -f 304 Toleration Act .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/48/