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In the 18th century, one group of Dissenters became known as "Rational Dissenters". In many respects they were closer to the Anglicanism of their day than other Dissenting sects; however, they believed that state religions impinged on the freedom of conscience. They were fiercely opposed to the hierarchical structure of the established church ...
The Toleration Act 1688 [1] [a] (1 Will. & Mar. c. 18), also referred to as the Act of Toleration or the Toleration Act 1689, [3] was an Act of the Parliament of England.Passed in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, it received royal assent on 24 May 1689.
They were also funded by philanthropic Dissenters such as William Coward (1647–1738), whose "will set up a trust fund 'for the education and training up of young men ... to qualify them for the ministry of the gospel among the Protestant Dissenters', thus continuing the financial support he had given to such students in his lifetime". [10]
"Old Dissenters", dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, included Baptists, Congregationalists, Quakers, Unitarians, and Presbyterians outside Scotland. "New Dissenters" emerged in the 18th century and were mainly Methodists. The "Nonconformist conscience" was their moral sensibility which they tried to implement in British politics. [22]
Long title: An Act for preserving the Protestant Religion by better securing the Church of England as by Law established and for confirming the Toleration granted to Protestant Dissenters by an Act intituled An Act for exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws and for supplying the Defects thereof and for the further ...
The Protestant Dissenters Act 1852 required dissenter sects to register a place of worship effectively making illegal the use of open spaces for worship. The sect was threatened with legal action for unlawful meetings by the parish authorities in Loxwood in 1861 and many letters were written by both sides but no action was taken.
The Places of Religious Worship Act 1812 (52 Geo. 3.c. 155) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It updated the Toleration Act 1688's system of registration for places of worship used by Protestant Dissenters except Quakers and set up a system of punishments for offenders against the Act. [2]
Priestley published several political works during these years, most of which were focused on the rights of dissenters, such as An Address to Protestant Dissenters . . . on the Approaching Election of Members of Parliament (1774). [31] This pamphlet was published anonymously and Schofield calls it "the most outspoken of anything he ever wrote."