{5} I subjoin the following documents, issued since the preaching of
this Sermon:—
At a Meeting of the Committee of the Birmingham Auxiliary to the British
and Foreign Bible Society, held December 11th, 1848.
_It was unanimously resolved_:
That the object of the British and Foreign Bible Society being the
circulation of the Word of God without note or comment, this
Committee cannot pass unnoticed the dishonour done to the Word of God
by the act of a Roman Catholic Priest in this town, who, during the
last month, burned a copy of the New Testament; nor the attempt made
by his coadjutors and himself in repudiating that act, to excuse it
in some respect, inasmuch as that excuse rests upon principles which,
carried out to their legitimate conclusion, would infringe upon our
undoubted right to circulate the Word of God, wherever parties of any
and of every creed are willing to receive it.
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