the trade reported to have been named on this occasion;he was, it is true, of humble origin, but by trade a carpenter. -Does this offend your lordship? What then if we should confess, that among the pillars of our church, we rank a tent-maker of Tarsus, and a fisherman of Galilee? Oh! if " in that most august assembly of the realm, clothed in the vesture of earthly grandeur, and pressing forward towards the mark of the prize of his high calling, a bishop should be found to allude in terms of disparagement to the worldly calling of the founder of our church, we should more than suspect, that his lordship had "stedfastly set his face "to go notto Jerusalem," but to-DURHAM! But the bishop of Chester is, we should have expected, too enlightened, too liberal, too well read in the history of Him, who was "despised and rejected of men," to have hazarded the reflection which, in the way of report only, we have alluded to; nor can we doubt but that upon reconsideration, his lordship will feel how little appropriate to the occasion it was to insinuate a charge of infidelity against our body, when the very grounds of our objections to the marriage ceremony, depend upon and arise out of our conscientious belief in the divine authority of the Christian religion. In noticing the speech of the bishop of Chester it is gratifying to find his lordship is favourable to the principle upon which relief is sought from the present operation of the law with regard to marriage, and if the Unitarian body should persevere in their just claim, that relief cannot be long delayed. We close this supplemental article by subjoining the spirited address published by the Unitarian body, on the occasion of the rejection of the bill for their relief by the House of Lords. "UNITARIAN MARRIAGE BILL. "At a special meeting of the committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, held the 9th June, 1825, 10 Resolved, That this society feels sincere gratitude towards that branch of the legislature which has unanimously admitted and (as far as lay in its power) redressed the complaint of the Unitarian dissenters, with regard to the arbitrary requirements of the present marriage law; as well as towards those members of the other house who have once more lent their assistance in the promotion of the principles of liberality and justice. "That this society again publicly pledges the body which it represents, to seek from session to session that redress, which it asks not as a boon, but as what ought to be the right of every citizen of a free state; and to appeal, at every opportunity, to the good sense and justice of the British Public, for the decision of the question, whether it be either wise or consistent with the honour and character of a church, claiming to be founded on the principles of religious liberty, to impose upon a class of dissenters, whom it professes to tolerate, a vexatious system of compulsive conformity, destructive of the only rational object of a religious ceremonial, and unwarranted even by the plea of civil expediency. "That in the mean time the scandal will not lie at the door of the Unitarian dissenters, if the altars which they are compelled to attend, become the scene of PUBLIC PROTESTS from which they have, as a body, hitherto refrained from feelings of delicacy towards those ministers of the church whom the law compels to be the instruments of this species of religious coercion, and from a reliance on the candid and liberal dispositions of those whose opinions they could not but conceive would have great weight with the legislature." NOTICES. THE two volumes of the Freethinking Christians' Quarterly Register are now complete, and may be had in boards, at the office of our Printer, Price 8s. 6d. each. Unlike most periodical publications, these volumes consist generally of subjects of permanent interest and importance to the inquirer after religious truth. To our Subscribers generally, and to various Correspondents, we have to apologize for the delay in the publication of the present Number. In our strictures on the Female Committee of Newgate, contained in our last, we professed an expectation that, if the parties felt themselves aggrieved, they would come forward by some "authorized agent," to state in what we have wronged them. None such have appeared. Two unauthorized communications have, however, been received; the one signed H. S. the other from the pen of our friend J. F. Both the writers are evidently very angry, and consequently very unfit, in that state, to be entrusted with the defence of the lady whose cause they espouse. By this time, indeed, we feel little doubt they must be so far restored to good humour as to feel their obligation to us for not setting their intemperance in type, or stitching their recrimination within our wrappers, to evidence their lack of argument. Besides, we are much mistaken if even the lady herself, whose conduct they undertake to defend, has not the good sense to confess the justice of our criticisms; for who now hears any thing of the Public follies of MRS. FRY? Adam, the sentence upon him explained, 103-his situation con 101 Bentham, Jeremy, his book, “Not Paul but Jesus," noticed.. 188 Character, a, after the manner of a living author 286 David, his dancing before the ark explained 209 Death-bed Repentance. See Repentance. Deists, their argument on the inutility of revelation answered, 14-their Devil. See Satan. J Dissenters' Marriages, 313, 373-Debates in the House of Lords, in Eve, temptation of, explained, 1-her sentence 282 379 8 Fall of Man, the doctrine of, disproved, 1, 97, 193, 302-Temptation Freethinking Christin, Letter written by a female, 185-subjects at Fry, Mrs. defence of; 151--Reply to the defence, 226-a public cha- God, how. we gain our ideas of one, 15 his attributes Jews, manners and customs of the Levites, their duties .... 149 250 t 98 343 54 348 288 200 D d Original sin-Paul's arguments examined Paul, his teaching compared with that of Jesus.. Poetry-On reading Hebrew Melodies, by Lord Byron, and Sacred The Year. A Father's Prayer Prayer, social. See Religious Worship. Priests, Jewish, their duties, and in what different from modern 190 68 159, 221 Quakerism, 69, 125-its tendency to supercede the gospel, 70-and to Religious Worship, essays on, 46, 162, 254, 337-the Jewish temple, Repentance, Death-bed, 35---folly of dependance on, 42---at executions, 369 53 38 Resurrection from the dead opposed to the doctrine of the immortality 299 Revealed Religion, its advantage over natural. 14 279 Sacrifice. See Religious Worship. Satan, meaning of this word, 1 Cor. v. 5. 26 Saul and the witch of Endor Soul--man created mortal, 11---essays on the doctrine of the immortality Synagogues, their origin, 346--service, 347-as described in the New Temple, the, origin and object of, 50--description of, 265. See Reli- Thief on the cross, the language of Jesus to, explained 120 120 355 39 31 287 126 Worship. See Religious Worship. 1. Hetherington, Printer, 13, Kingsgate Street, Holborn. |
