Toleration Act Explained: An Answer to a Legal Argument on the Toleration Act : Shewing that the Court of Quarter Sessions Have a Judicial Function as to the Administration of Oaths to Persons Offering Themselves for Qualification as Protestant Dissenting MinistersJ. Butterworth, Fleet street, and J. Hatchard, Piccadilly; and sold, 1812 - 39 Seiten |
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19th Geo according Act of Toleration administer the oaths answer applicants applying to qualify appoint Argument asserted Atheists Author Church of England civil power claim to take clause conscience Corporation and Test Court of King's Court of Quarter decision definite description Denbighshire discipline Dissenting Minister doctrine eighth section entitled evidence evil exercise expressly fitness or unfitness Fleet Street gion Gloucestershire interpretation judgment judicial Justices of Derbyshire King's Bench learned friend legislature licence Lord Chief Justice Magistrates mandamus ment Militia Laws ministerial Ministers of religion National Church nister ordination particular party applying party claiming party offering party wishes penalties permit place of meeting pretending to holy princi privilege professed provisions qualification for offices Quarter Sessions quoted reason registry and certificate religion religious liberty religious worship respect scription second section sect spiritual validity Statute take the oaths Teacher or Preacher Test Acts tion Tole wisdom wishes to take
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Seite 18 - And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person dissenting from the Church of England in holy orders or pretended holy orders or pretending to holy orders, nor any preacher or teacher of any congregation of dissenting Protestants, that shall make and subscribe the declaration aforesaid and take the said oaths...
Seite 30 - ... change as this may be wished for by good men, rather than expected by any man, it is proper to consider what can be done to lessen an irremediable evil, and whether good policy cannot furnish an antidote against the poison of theology; on which I shall say a word or two before I finish this long essay. There are arguments, no doubt, even of the political kind, and of irresistible force, against atheists who reject all religion, latitudinarians who admit all alike, and ngSisis who suffer one alone.
Seite 28 - A narrative of the proceedings relating to the bill. . .intituled an act for granting relief to pastors, ministers and lay persons, of the Episcopal communion in Scotland.
Seite 11 - An Act to prevent papists from sitting in either House of Parliament;" which oaths and declaration the justices of the peace at the general sessions of the peace, to be held for the county or place where such person shall live, are hereby required to tender and administer to such persons as shall offer themselves to take, make, and subscribe the same, and thereof to keep a register...
Seite 34 - ... Popery, required by the said Act, made in the first year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, to be taken, made, and subscribed by Protestant Dissenting ministers; nor above the sum of sixpence for any certificate thereof to be made out and signed by the officer or officers...
Seite 15 - They will still be obHged to shew that they are within the requisite qualifications, if called upon; notwithstanding the register and certificate. And if, in fact, they are not within the qualifications, the Justices may return " that they are not,
Seite 24 - Dissenters' meetings afforded by the Toleration Act. In 1704 Chief Justice Holt ruled: if a man be a professed churchman, and his conscience will permit him sometimes to go to [a dissenting] meeting instead of coming to Church, the Act of Toleration will not excuse him, for it was not made for such sort of people.
Seite 29 - Episcopalians good subjects, and do they hold religious principles fit to be tolerated ? that is to say, Are they good subjects, and do they agree with us in the fundamentals of Christianity ? for these are the religious principles /«Y to be tolerated" In the debate on the Corporation and Test Acts, 1790, Mr.
Seite 29 - Indeed . . . [Fox's conclusions] throw open a door for the entrance of some individuals who might consider it a point of conscience to shake our Establishment to its foundations.™...
Seite 16 - ... be allowed by such as shall be appointed by both Houses of Parliament, and who have skill in the original tongues.