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14 March 1812.
Church of Englandism examined
Doctrine
13. Antichristian A
in respect of
1. Sabbath keeping — matter
2
. abstinence from healthful
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2. Holidays
Bishops are at best
useless: proof Christ or
governed without them.
The Bisops — nuisances
in the H. of Lords
all corrupt tools in the
hands of the Crown —
at best useless.
Doctrine
15. Liturgy and other
Formularies — their incongruity
and incorrigibility.
I or II
16. Perpetuation of errors
and exclusion
of improvement, as
really and indefensibly
the object in this Church
as in the Romish.
17. Ireland its value
as a fund of Ecclesiastical
Sinecures
18. Ecclesiastical Courts
their depravity — their
connection with the other
parts of the system.
19. Obstruction of general
and useful ing
by the preference given
to Bell's uselessly expensive
plan over
Lamenters economical
and more usefully
extensive.
20. Hostility to philosophy
Charity by the pride
and intolerance engendered
by it especially in the
Clergy.
21. Its repugnancy to
the plainest principles of Jesus.
Facienda & Fallacies
Utterly impossible to
give any answers to these
charges — the gauntlet
thrown down
Sole reason being
under from this
and going on in the
vague generality tone
of ipse-dixit laudation
with the addition of
such of the common
fallacies as can be
brought to bear
☞ N.B. Fallacies — anti-in
— not ,
futile but their futility
acknowledged every time any thing has been done.
favorable to the
system whether religion
be useful or useless.
If useful they contribute
nothing to what is useful
in it. If useless the extreme
of the establishment
is so much thrown-away.
Christians are either
unfrequented or keep
men out of Hunting
Houses where the business
of religion is more
attended to, and produces
more at least
if not better effect.
Distraction — a bugbear
word — Corruption well
known and Generalities
. Corruption Destruction
and Reformation the
same thing
Destruction desirable
but not probable.
The system were it ever
so much worse and more
flagrantly but then
it is would be kept
on foot by sinister
interest. Corruption on
this spot will be preserved
to from the first
to the last moment, as
in all others.
I. Occasion
1. "Excellence" put into
issue by Bishops advertisement.
This an acceptance
of the challenge — thence
not punishable.
The excellence i.e.
plea against destruction
its existence — not its
serviceableness or even
innocuousness.
Would not have done
what it is doing in education,
but for speech against
Lancaster made
to prevent his success.
Proof of the their universal
disregard of the interests of
the Church i.e. their
successors — the universal
anticipation of the reviews
of it by gentry the largest
possible houses with the
greatest possible f.
As if the immense
mass of the matter of reward
were not enough to
so pervade the judgment
on the subject of Church
-of-Englandism, and if punishment
is employed:
viz. by the prosecution of
Dom. I Eaton for publication
of third part of
Papers Agt of Reason.
This should be attributed to
Bishops for they could have stopped it.
I. Time favourable
This a good time for
the inquiry — since so
much ability displayed
in the Church and as
was by Quarterly & Brooks
Review. Errors on the
unfavourable side occasion
of the most effectual corruption.
The Author a more than
important person: all his
original prejudices on the
favourable side. Descended
on both sides from beneficent
and most-respected Clergymen
— educated at
Oxford — no reason to complain
of it — some of its
good things ruined — others
proffered— and determined.
II. Windham
Related in the corruption
of the Ecclesiastical system the
true cause of the corruption of the
people of which the to
make
a
bar
to
Catholic no pretence
for saying that after emancipation
there will
be any likelyhood of their
making converts.
Church-of-Englandism
more likely to keep
making converts. But
under all established
Churches with creeds the
great obstacle to their
receiving proselytes is
the creed: the moral impossibility
that of
a collection of doctrines
made in so comparatively
rude an age every one
without exception should
be assented to and believed
Interest of the heart
☞ Talk of the
discipline first and
treat it clear of the doctrine
— which may be
received for a
publication
☞ Consult Paley passion
with a view to communication.
XII. Percevals respected
Curious system Bill's
XVI. S.W. Scotd
Act.
XIV. Mischiefs produced by the
constitution of the system.
Occasion of this
II. P or
effects out of a indispensable
crime calendar &c.
III Causes adequate
of those effects.
Sinister interest &c.
IV. P open
to argument
V. Irish Church
True question
not the original,
but
present size
VI. Scottish Church
Other Protestant Churches
VII. Facienda.
VIII. Perceval &c. Facienda
V Doctrine viz. of Articles
its mischievousness
VI Dis — its mischievousness
II Ends — true Ends
proposed
III Ends false charges
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