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Church Rudiments

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1 Principles
Ch IX Powers in laity
Rudiments

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IX. Powers exercisible over the laity.

I. Present practical utility. I. None, except powers curatorial, ut deotiné, as
above. 1. By this power is to be understood do annexed to the office: whether occasionally
it shall be giveable to this or that individual another question. II Mischiefs of powers thus
bestowed. 1. Diverticle from their appropriate duties, which Scoticé suffice to fill up
next time. 2. danger of its being employed to the purpose of silencing
counter opinions — i.e. persecution. 3. Danger do of do of obtaining
sinister inducement. (See Subtitle III Intermediate)

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II. Practice of earliest times. 1. Jesus had no such powers — miracles excepted could not
without but by miracle. 2. Nor his Apostles, in his
time as of , like Constantine.

III. Practice of intermediate times. 1. Pre reformational. 1. In Popes
hands the danger, realised. 2. As to opulence, Anglicé clergy get
1/3 of the land, and would have got the whole, but for the M
Acts. 3 ☞ confer Judges' whom for 3. Means 3. Most efficient means
employed: 1. Possession of Intestate's estates Anglicé. 2. Possession of lands by
consecration for Church Yards. ☞ Confer Judges mode of hazing and
mens estates, by groundless outlawries, and dividing the produce,
. 6? in a Note? Scoticé Clergy had got half the land.

II. Post reformational. Anglicé: Hen. 8th succeeded to the Pope and
exercised a power altogether arbitrary in Ecclesiastical matters. the
limits and found. So Elizabeth. James made Canons binding
the laity with Convocation of the Clergy alone without Parliament.
King additional and sinister to Pope's do.

IV. Practice Anglicé. 1. i. Power papisticé more or less arbitrary, converted
into judicial — the Judges named appointed by Bishops, but not displaceable
at pleasure. Mischiefs. 1. In criminals grievous punishment
for trivial delinquency ex. gr. for cutting whore &c. 2. Procedure technical ill adapted, diluting
expensive. 3. Several taints of Popish superstition and tyranny
preserved. 4. In criminale et civile useless complication.
laws substantive and different from the Common Law do in the same the next
matter: ex. gr. 'same will ecclesiastic' as to personals bad spurious
temporalities as to realty.

II. Convocation — what power it had over the laity? — now disused and
by antiquation would probably be considered as abolished.

V. Practice Scoticé. 1 No power at all exercisible by Clergy as such,
over laity as such — 2 unless the individually exercisible superintendence of schools and
of the powers from the part or the management of the Poor Fund be considered as exceptions

VI. Present practical utility. Except the Bishops' share of in the superior power (ut infrà)
no but little power of this sort to abolish, on this ground: only the such removal of universal judicators
which
which is abuse. For compensation
to the Judiciary establishment quod lire a small
compensation would suffice. As
for the civil branch, if it
requires abolition or modification,
it is on the ground of complication, delay, vexation and expence, test of injury to religion; with this it has nothing to do.

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Date_1	1812-11-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	006	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	021	Info in main headings field	church rudiments
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1809
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	2754
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