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A dominant church was not acceptable to the Dissenters who composed the bulk of the population; yet it was contended by those in authority all of whom were Episcopalians that the Clergy Reserves were the exclusive domain of the Church of England. It must be conceded that there was some ground for this contention, and that the question was not quite free from doubt.
Many generous minds feared, that to concede to the State a right of enforcing morality, covertly allowed religious persecution. Who first uttered the formula "The only duty of the State is, to protect persons and property" is unknown to the present writer; but certainly fifty, forty, even thirty years ago, this principle was widely accepted by radical politicians and active-minded dissenters.
He is a clergyman, or they say so; but I really wonder the Bishops have not turned him out of the Church long ago." "A clergyman, and makes people Dissenters!" cried I. "Why, Mr Whitefield quoted the Articles in his sermon." "They said so," she replied.
Bills were immediately afterwards passed by the Irish one embodying the Declaration of Rights, also a biennial Mutiny Act, and an Act validating the marriage of Dissenters, while, above all, Poynings' Act, which had so long fettered its free action, was once for all repealed. This was the happiest moment of Grattan's life.
There are others of us who risk much more than I who risk indeed their all!" "You have done a noble work for your people, Meynell." The Bishop's voice was not unlike a groan. "I have done nothing but what was my bounden duty to do." "And practically your parish is with you in this terrible business?" "The church people in it, by an immense majority and some of the dissenters. Mr.
This was, in point of fact, the most audacious of all attacks of the Stuarts on public freedom. The Anglican party was in amazement and terror, for it would now be exposed to the free attacks of its enemies on every side. And though Dissenters appeared to be allowed relief, what guarantee was there for the sincerity of the Court?
The Church reforms in England and Ireland, which were carried out about the same time, cannot be said to have involved any constitutional principle, though one of them greatly extended the principle of religious toleration and indulgence to the Dissenters of various sects.
‘It is not my fault that there are Dissenters,’ said the Reverend Mr. Platitude; ‘if I had my will I would neither admit there were any, nor permit any to be.’ ‘Of course you would admit there were such as long as they existed; but how would you get rid of them?’ ‘I would have the Church exert its authority.’ ‘What do you mean by exerting its authority?’
The purely sacerdotal qualities, good or bad, were at a minimum. Crabbe, himself a type of the class, has left admirable portraits of his fellows. Profound veneration for his noble patrons and hearty dislike for intrusive dissenters were combined in his own case with a pure domestic life, a keen insight into the uglier realities of country life and a good sound working morality.
Under James's policy of courting the Puritans, the leading Dissenters were the first persons to be approached. Two are specially named, a Mr. Margetts, formerly Judge-Advocate-General of the Army under General Monk, and John Bunyan.
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