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    TO THE AVOWED ARIANS OF THE SYNOD OF ULSTER . Hail ! faithful few , who love the light of truth More than the praise of men !— -Your choice is made ; And may that choice repay you ! If ye lose

    Much that the heart of man has learned to prize ^ Stir not your noble spirits when ye think What ye have gain'd ?• What honour from good men , What peace within , what favour from your God i Reason is on your side , and Nature too : — Nature , who bade the human soul be free , Active and independent , gave it power To seeji the truth and energy to hold .

    The mind of man must keep its onward course , And conquer prejudice and combat error , Till truth prevail , clear , gentle , and serene . Thus springs , within the bosom of a mount , Work on their silent way , till , stronger grown , They burst their barriers , and gush freely forth

    To meet the eye of heav ' n : and if , convulsed , The hills are rent , and falling rocks impede The torrent ' s course , the proud wave higher swells , And overflows them ; till opposed no more , It spreads afar its silent , blue expanse , Where flowers behold their image , aqd the moon Gazes upon herself , —

    Then struggle on , And hope for future peace : —but if in vain Ye seek it among men ;—if malice , scorn , And tyranny should track your steps , and chafe

    * See W . Blackstone ' a Rep . Vol . I . p . 353 . f See alao R , v . Jotham , 3 Terra Rep ., 575

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    Barker , * where it was held that a mandamus lay to trustee tp admit a Dissenting teacher . In that case Lord Mansfield says , " Since the Aot of Toleration , Dissenters are entitled to all manner of legal protection ; charities to their mode of worship have been established since the Revolution , though held to be superstitious before . "f In opposition to this argument it may doubtless be urged , that the law required a celebration by a person in holy orders , in which light a Roman Catholic priest is regarded , and ^ hat a

    Dissenting minister is not a person in holy orders . But to this it may be replied , that before the Toleration Act the law recognized no religious teacher who was not in holy orders , but that since that act the minister of a Dissenting congregation is regarded as a minister of religion , and that the requisition of the law ( if indeed it ever existed ) merely was , thjat marriage should be a religious ceremony .

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    Address to the avowed Ariam of the Synod of Uhter . J 9

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/7/