In it he ruthlessly satirised both the High church Tories and those Dissenters who hypocritically practised so-called " occasional conformity ", such as his Stoke Newington neighbour Sir Thomas Abney.

Dissenters such as Joseph Priestley who had endorsed the arguments of the Rights of Man turned away from those presented in The Age of Reason.

English Dissenters ( such as Puritans and Presbyterians ) who violated the Act of Uniformity 1559 may retrospectively be considered Nonconformists, typically by practising or advocating radical, sometimes separatist, dissent with respect to the Established Church.

" Her highly charged pamphlet is written in a biting and sarcastic tone ; it opens, " we thank you for the compliment paid the Dissenters, when you suppose that the moment they are eligible to places of power and profit, all such places will at once be filled with them.

In 1793, when the British government called on the nation to fast in honor of the war, anti-war Dissenters such as Barbauld were left with a moral quandary: " obey the order and violate their consciences by praying for success in a war they disapproved?

Owens College, like the earlier University College London, applied no such tests and was open to Protestant Dissenters, Catholics and Jews ( though not then to women ).

Richard Price ( 23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791 ) was a Welsh moral philosopher and preacher in the tradition of English Dissenters, and a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution.

The rioters burned not only the homes and chapels of Dissenters, but also the homes of people they associated with Dissenters, such as members of the scientific Lunar Society.

Marginalized groups such as women, Dissenters and those campaigning to abolish the slave trade all invoked Lockean ideals.

A critical mass of " dissident intellectuals, pedagogues with reforming ideas and Dissenters " and " the well-to-do edge of radical Protestantism " clustered around Newington Green, and other villages nearby such as Stoke Newington and Hackney.

Though he wrote several inflammatory theological pamphlets, such as The Liturgy and the Dissenters ( 1860 ) and Leaves from an Egyptian Notebook ( 1888 ), he is chiefly remembered today for his archaeological and philological studies, which include Words and Places ( 1864 ), Etruscan Researches ( 1874 ), The Alphabet ( 1883 ), and Greeks and Goths ( 1879 ), in which he argued that the runes were derived from a variety of the Hellenic alphabet used in the Greek colonies on the Black Sea about the 6th century B. C.

The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.

Notable local Dissenters included John Bunyan, of Bedford, author of the Pilgrim's Progress, and another important hymn writer, Philip Doddridge ( 1702 – 51 ), of Northampton.

John Edward Taylor is buried in the Rusholme Road Cemetery ( also known as the Dissenters Burial Ground and now Gartside Gardens ), alongside his first wife Sophia Russell Scott.

Born at Flintham Hall, Flintham, Nottinghamshire, he was the eldest son of John Disney, a former Anglican clergyman who became one of the founders of the Episcopal Unitarian Church, and from a long line of English Dissenters going back to Disney's great-great grandfather John Disney ( rector ) and earlier.

If a concerted effort had been made by Birmingham's Anglican elite to attack the Dissenters, it was more than likely the work of Benjamin Spencer, a local minister, Joseph Carles, a Justice of the Peace and landowner, and John Brooke ( 1755-1802 ), an attorney, coroner, and under-sheriff.

It has historical connections with The Beatles ( because it was frequented by John Lennon and his girlfriend Cynthia when they were at art school ) and The Dissenters ( to whom a plaque hangs in the bar ).

One of the first fruits of his work was the entrance of John Bright into parliamentary life ; and by 1852 forty Dissenters were members of the House of Commons.

Locke held that the individual had the right to follow his own religious beliefs and that the state should not impose a religion against Dissenters.

James was convinced by addresses from Dissenters that he had their support and so could dispense with relying on Tories and Anglicans.

He hoped to find among the " English Dissenters " a spiritual understanding absent from the established church but fell out with one group, for example, because he maintained that women had souls:

Her prized possession was a bound volume of the Dissenters ' Theological Magazine and Review, in which the family's pastor, the Reverend James Wheaton, had published two essays, one insisting that God had created the world in six days, the other urging dissenters to study the new science of geology.

Their leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters who had fled the volatile political environment in the East Midlands of England for the relative calm and tolerance of 16th – 17th century Holland in the Netherlands.

Although Roman Catholics and Dissenters had been permitted to enter as early as 1793, certain restrictions on their membership of the college remained until 1873 ( professorships, fellowships and scholarships were reserved for Protestants ), and the Catholic Church in Ireland forbade its adherents, without permission from their bishop, from attending until 1970.

For three years, from 1787 to 1790, Dissenters had been attempting to convince Parliament to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts which limited the civil rights of Dissenters.

But Commons wanted to address a different item of business-the Declaration of Indulgence that had been issued by Charles II during the recess in 1672 suspending penal laws on Dissenters and Catholics.

The Leiden scholarship had been provided by wealthy English Dissenters, who hoped Toland would go on to become a minister for Dissenters.

Priestley revealed that disputes over the local library, Sunday Schools, and church attendance had divided Dissenters from Anglicans.

In addition to these religious and political differences, both the lower-class rioters and their upper-class Anglican leaders had economic complaints against the middle-class Dissenters.

Having begun by attacking those who attended the Bastille celebration on the 14th, the " Church-and-King " mob had finished up by extending their targets to include Dissenters of all kinds as well as members of the Lunar Society.

Priestley and other Dissenters blamed the government for the riots, believing that William Pitt and his supporters had instigated them ; however, it seems from the evidence that the riots were actually organized by local Birmingham officials.

Birmingham had a vigorous and confident Nonconformist community by the 1680s, at a time when freedom of worship for Nonconformists nationally had yet to be granted ; and by the 1740s this had developed into an influential group of Rational Dissenters.

Then they went to work and elected a lot of Dissenters, one after another, and kept it up until they had collected £ 15, 000 in fines ; and there stands the stately Mansion House to this day, to keep the blushing citizen in mind of a long past and lamented day when a band of Yankees slipped into London and played games of the sort that has given their race a unique and shady reputation among all truly good and holy peoples that be in the earth.

Prior to this, a ‘ Dissenters Church ’ had been built in Winchester Street in 1800 and was attracting a growing congregation.

Dissenters who didn't want to convert typically had to ( but also were allowed to ) emigrate elsewhere, into a region where their faith was the state religion.

All his relations were Dissenters, and, after attending the Royal Free Grammar School of Newcastle, and a dissenting academy in the town, he was sent in 1739 to Edinburgh to study theology with a view to becoming a minister, his expenses being paid from a special fund set aside by the dissenting community for the education of their pastors.

At the Convocation which opened on 21 November 1689 Prideaux was an advocate for changes in the Book of Common Prayer, with a view to the comprehension of Dissenters.

( Bucknell 2002 ) Dissenters from this view notably included Albert Schweitzer, who argued against the alleged ' purity ' of music in a classic work on Bach.

Newton, with his own associations with Dissenters ( his mother was one ) meant he was in a position to conciliate with, rather than confront, his parishioners, and he quickly achieved a reputation as a popular preacher.

The approach of these Rational Dissenters appealed to Wollstonecraft: they were hard-working, humane, critical but uncynical, and respectful towards women, and in her hour of need proved kinder to her than her own family.

He was always suspected of being a Roman Catholic, and invariably treated Jacobites and Papists better than Dissenters in the Athenae, but he died in communion with the Church of England.

They believed neither in original sin nor in the notion of women as more guilty or weaker than men and were more liberal than other communities ( e. g., methodists, Anglicans or Dissenters ).