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14 March 1812
Church of Englandism examined

Title
Church-of-Englandism
examined:
in respect of &c.
with a view to

1 Catholic Emancipation
2 A Additional Churches
3. institutions
4. Discouragement of Jealousies

By a Graduate of
the University of Oxford

By an Oxford Graduate.

By their fruits shall ye
know them.

in respect of
within
influence on
Happiness, morality
and useful learning

Influence on
1. General Morality
2 Habitual sincerity
3. Education of the higher bulk
classes masses of the people
4. Education of the
governing &c. influencing few
higher classes
5. Fulfilment of official
and professional duty
6. Professional zeal.
7. Political probity
7. Financial Economy
8. Acquisition and
diffusion of useful
learning.

With a Parallel between
Chur To which is are prefixed
Principles of Ecclesiastical
probity

With a continued Parallel between
Church of Englandism
and Scotch Presbyterianism
under their several heads

And
An inquiry into the
most eligible remedy
for the whatever imperfections
may be
discernible.

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Topics
I. Phenomena
1. State of the criminal
Calendar compared
with that of Scotland.
This considered as the
ultimate effect and
test experimentum crucis
or test of its subserviency
to morality and public
happiness

I. 2
2. Non-acquaintance
with the state of their
respective parishioners the shape
of their respective pastors
compared with the Scotch
Clergy.

Sketches of Scotland
furnished by the Scotch
Clergy — Utter
impossibility of obtaining
any such account of the English
Parishes from the English
Clergy

I. 3
3. Non-Residence —
semi-universal in
England — unexemplified
in Scotland

I. 4
4. Sinecures — multitude
of: see Scotland
Archbishk. Commons contra

I. 5
5. Pluralities multitude
of: see Scotland

Causes
Causes I. 6 & II. 1
6. Excessive Opulence
in some instances
See Scotland

II. 7
7. Great deficiency in
other instances. See Scotland

I.
8. Effect of the excessive
opulence. 1. Idleness
neglect of duty — non-reddition
of due services
Receipt of money &c. on
false pretences.

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Topics
9. 2. Quantity of the
matter of corruption at
the disposal of the Crown
Bishop Watson against Revocation.

Doctrine?

10. Effect on morals
in respect of drunkenness
&c. the result of
forced idleness

II
11. Matter of reward
not applied in such
manner as to protect
service. Quantum
the sole object attended
to — not the mode of
application: whereas
in the case of reward
useful
is no more affected
by quantity independently
of apposite applications
than in the case of punishment.
So Methodists
and Sectaries in general

II
12. Out of Church
and adviser of the
Poor and ignorant the
proper office of a Church
Priest — of a Clergyman
Opulence which throws
time into the company
of the rich who have no
need of his services, is
not simply useless but
pernicious. See Scotland.

II
13. Preferment-limiting
the great object and
occupation: the result
of Pluralities and Promotions

II
14. Insincerity produced
by Oaths and Subscriptions

Universal
Habitual anticipation
of the corruption
to the utmost

8. in
from Burnet

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Topics
Phænomena I
II. Universities the state
of — Oxford in particular —
in respect of
1. Habitual and
perjury
2. Sinecures over
Professorships and
Fellowships &c.
3. Pride on the part
of the opulent and the
rulers. Noblemen —
Gentlemen Commons
Heads of Houses —
Fellows

I
4. Servility and prostrate
obsequiousness on
the part of the non-essential
Sinecures &c.

II
5. Universities sinecures
for bad
for hostility &c.

I or II
6. Seat and source of
bad education, intellectual
and moral.

I
7. Locke and Paley both
excluded from Oxford:
then worse than Cambridge

8. Tendency to breed
poetry which is the
art of misrepresentation
not any
or physics — highly so
or morals and politics.
Treasury Benches &c.
peopled with Poets
good and bad — C —
Wharton — Sy — Burges

§3. Reward
1. Jug Util. 2 Fallacies
Same
Brookes &c
Coincidence
1. Annual Ecclesiastical
Register.
2 Paley's Philosophy
2. Quarterly Review. Soothing
Account of
3. Warburtons
4. Bishop Watsons plan
for abolishing Transubstantiation.
5. Polity
6. Sir W. Scots Ecclesiastical
Court Bill.
7. Previous Eccles. Law.

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