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Church Church
Principles of
Ecclesiastical
Polity.
In which the claims
of the Catholics &
other Dissenters from
the Church of England
are considered
and the Revenues
of the Clergy are
considered
Abuses
1. Non-residence
1 non-Officiation.
2. Pluralities
3. Excessive benefices
4. Deficient benefices
5. Sine cures
6. Bishops examining by their
Chaplains.
7. Independence of
instructions to Parishioners.
Obstacles
1
1. Dissenting Ministers
their prospect of being
thrown out of provision
by the reconciliation
of their flock
2. Younger Brothers &dependents of
great families & losing
their prospects of
preform.
3. King losing his
patronage & corruptive
influence.
Political blasphemy
to doubt the Kings virtue
in proving his duty
& have proved his instruction. Put tho churches is wished in the King is virtuous
The Clergy are
Public Officers
In Officers are
to be considered
1. Their Duty
2. Their Power
3. Their Salary
Church Service
1. In extracts from
in Public later
such only as have
an evident moral
application
2. In Officers omitt
all phrases derived
of controverted points
2d Consequently all
omission Creeds rather than equivocation
3. Omitt repetitions
4. Engraft temporal
laws
5 Declare that
the congregation are
not understood to
believe every thing
without exception
which is asserted or
taken for granted
in the service.
New Liturgy, &c
how to be introduced
Put to the vote once
a year to adhere to
the old or receive
the new.
6. Equivocation was
the object in favour
concentrating plans
identity of expressive
diversity if sentiment
ought to be
Church Power
in general.
its inutility and
mischievousness
x. Of Governors quil
over subjects
in
Inutility and
mischievousness
of the particular
species of coercion
in which it has
exercised itself.
1. In England
2. In France &c
2 Penal Statutes
against exercise
of Religions
1. Catholic
2.. Presbyterian
3. Quaker
4. Jews
4 Disabling Statutes
from
1. Holding Offices
2. Bearing arms
3. Bearing witness
Vicarious punishment
4. Holding landed
property
III. Forcing Ascetic
practices
1.Tracts.
2.Feasts.
II. Of Ecclesiastics
over lay men
III. Of Ecclesiastics
over Ecclesiastics
Liminal measures
are not to their mind.
concieve are not to their
power
If they do equalize themselves
it is always by a
breach of the odium themselves
are in Adultery.
Salary
1. In proper true measure
2. Mischiefs resulting
from
excess
3. Shapes in which
the excess of Ecclesiastical
Salary has
shewn itself in England
1. Too large livings
2. Useless functions
3. Useless & Mischievous
Bishopricks
4. Bishopricks including
a share
in sovereign power
as a part of Salary
Power
Superintendents
of Church men
need not be Church
men - The ordinary
Civil Judge.
Depronation for
particular offences
such as repeated
drunkeness, Adultery
Open Fornication.
Duty of government
to take the lead
without breaching
upon liberty
Examinations
ought to be not
in incontrovertible
points but in
1. Language
2. History
3. What or the opinion
of the Church is.
Tests - proper for
Clergy - if any
should be
1. Not the adherence
to certain opinions
but
The possession of the
points of knowledge
subservient to the forming
of right opinions
viz::the languages
in which Ecclesiastical
histories were
written or through
which they have
been transmitted
1. Hebrew.
2. Greek.
3. Latin.
A Nursery of
Subscriptions Paley
Paley would have
conduct subscriptions
yet
changes from time
to time upon suppositions
of change
of opinions - Shew
how this supposes
the falshood
of Subscriptions
Salaries
Excessive
Exclude those who
like the function, by
drawing in those who
like only the emoluments.
Lib perjury
by engaging more
in the false declaration
of there being called
by the Holy Ghost
People make a conscience
of imposing
self convicting oaths
in prosecutions tho'
such imposition tends
to a good end
Have the end which
the imposition tends to
is no other than the
admitting the unfit
and excluding the l
more conscientious
service
supposes none to enter
but are drawn by affectation
Quakers
without being brought.
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Effects of sequestration
of Ecclesiastical revenue
in Patronage
trict County Judicaturer
Pr & Chapters.
This would enhance
the patronage in the
same hands.
Examples
1 France
2. America
Ridicule.
I am not so much as
to laugh at what appears
to me wrong in his opinion,
& laugh to have me
punished for what appears
to him to be wrong in name.
Persecution
Pleas for
1. Right instruction
2. Self-defence
3. Keeping the peace
5 Right instruction
authorizes universal
persecution, universal
anarchy.
Every man has the
same evidence of
rectitude as every
other
2. What persecution
produces is not real
persuasion conversion but false
pretence of conversion.
3. Persecution keeps
some in profession
of error through a
point of honour.
The plea of self-
defence takes for
granted the disposition
to persecuteuse violence or the
part of persecuted
and the ability.
profess doomed by
experience to be confounded
with regard
to French Catholic
for Catholics supposed
to be the worse for
being Englishmen?
IV. Keeping the peace
Persecution does not
promote the keeping
of the peace, but the
breaking of it: instead
of conciliatiory affection
it provokes just
resentment.
It is a an unjust hardship
to be to a man obliged to decide
in favour
of one either of two opposite
opinions, where
one he is wavering
2 Still more if he
is decided
4 Yet more if the opinion
thus formed
upon him be
false
3 Still more if the
subsequent of it be
frivolous: viz: of
no practical influence
upon morality
The absurdist have
been chosen by preference
to be thus
supported: as the
rational will stand
upon their own bottom.
No argument for
ecclesiastical tyranny
which would
not be still stronger
in favour of civil
Aversion to ecclesiastical
tyranny no
sign of irreligion.
Perjury &c
Either the conscience
is tender or callous.
In the 2d case perjurer
himself is doomed to perpetualin torment
anxiety & in the other
case society suffers.
Party falshood & disingenuity
in Parlt.
&c traceablereferable to this
source.
Men pass through
the Universities as
through a fiery furnace
which they
are purified of their
virtue - pass through
the fire but it is to
ch.
It the opinions thus
forced upon a
man are
the opinions he would
have formed entertained otherwise
Subscriptions be one
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If not they produce
either corruption of
character or remorse
of ; or remorse of
prospects if declined.
Fundamentals - the
most frivolous, & the
most controverted.
Liturgy proceeds
upon two principles
1. Rating together the
points of controversy,
to triumph against
adversaries
2. Dcting homage
that none of the persons
of the Godhead may be
jealous.
Ch. Considerations
applicable to the
present time-
Means of Mischief
Associations not to pay
taxes
Bishops &c not to be
wrought upon but
by their fears.
Cowardice or natural
appendage to degraded
natures to minds
enfeebled & hearts corrupted
by the habits
dissimulation disingenuousness
& falshood
Probability of success
from assative no
proof of their being
dangerous. The
body of the
will remain under
or even affect them
when all they ask
is the natural rights
of man: sea of
their dangers were
mischievous
The understanding
ought naturally to
begovern the guide to the
affections - hilsirophisms
&c make the affection
govern the understanding
Reform
N Sacrifice of the
interest of present
possessors clips the
wings of reform, as
through compassion
people will be disposed
to allow more
to the present possessors
than need be allowed
to successors who have representations are not pd
It is to the mild & moderate reasons they stke to but it is thetoby the vigorous adversary only that the impression is made Men are not to be soothed & wheedled out of & haven. Politeness & guthness are good things on their but it is not by politeness that the fortresses are brought to capitulation.
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