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25 Nov 1813 2
Church
II D
Ch.
2
Both cases — that of subscription required and that
of Recantation exacted have this in common, viz. that
of that which is by authority of the ruling few assented and [called for required to be done at the hands
of the subject many] of productive of mendacity if not the a
main and ultimate object is at any rate a certain neverfailing fruit.
In the extent of the field — and in the degree of efficiency of the on
the part of the instrument employed, depends depend the only
difference differences.
1. In the case of subscription — at least in the applications
that have been customarily been made of that
instrument of corruption no nothing in the shape of transgression is implied
no application of the matter of evil in the shape of
matter of punishment: no application but of the matter
of good, viz. in the shape of the matter of reward:
in respect of extent of application, as measured by the
number of the persons to whom it has been applied —
these persons have been no others than those to whom
has been thrown open the door of that lottery — in which the prizes have
been comprised of masses of the matter of good in the shape
of money wealth with or without masses of power and dignity
conferred in the shape character of masses of the matter of reward
attached to ecclesiastical service
In England under the Church of England discipline
thousand persons is thr with their respective functions or with the addition
of the population of the live th about 14,000
will comprise the number of the persons to in whose
instance mendacity is produced the production of mendacity is effected or or as by
the the matter of reward employed in the purchase of it.
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