Dr. Williams's Library, and the Debate on the Roman Catholic Claims, January 20th, 1829: With the History of the Adjorned Meeting on the 27th. to Which Is Added Extracts from the Manchester Socinian Controversy, Laws Relative to Dissenting Trusts
Dr. Williams's Library, and the Debate on the Roman Catholic Claims, January 20th, 1829: With the History of the Adjorned Meeting on the 27th. to Which Is Added Extracts from the Manchester Socinian Controversy, Laws Relative to Dissenting Trusts
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...which alone can empower them to dispose of that property; (for these trustees claim a right in direct opposition to the very legal instruments to which they refer as actu-ally giving them their title) and even this large and unbounded allo_wance will fail to serve the purpose of the U nitarians. " The descendants of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...which alone can empower them to dispose of that property; (for these trustees claim a right in direct opposition to the very legal instruments to which they refer as actu-ally giving them their title) and even this large and unbounded allo_wance will fail to serve the purpose of the U nitarians. " The descendants of the old English Pres-byterians and Independents, are no where so scarce as in Unitarian chapels, or on the lists of benefactory funds administered by Unita-rian trustees. The almost incalculable ma-jority of the descendants of those who con-tributed to the erection of those chapels, and of the congregations who first worshipped within their walls, are now chiefly among the Orthodox Dissenters. Among them their fore-fathers found an asylum, when expelled by those Who, though few in number, were un-happily great in power, and who drove out ' the genuine representatives of the English Presbyterians, ' by a remorseless intrusion of the Socinian doctrines; and while a few de-scendants of original trustees (who are trus-tees also themselves) may yet attend the ancient chapels, they who are allied by religious sen-timents as well as by consanguinity, to the founders, are no longer there. " Let it besupposed that certain trustees, who are appointed to act for the benefit of an orphan family, eject the true heirs from their lawful possessions, and those heirs, with their posterity, either decline into poverty, or acquire fortunes elsewhere; and that those trustees enjoy the undisturbed possession of the property thus acquired, during their own lives, and then are succeeded by their children, who likewise bequeath it to their's, and so on: but at length the public attention being excited, the descendants of those trustees are ...
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