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W.C. 23 Sept. 1812
Church II Topics VII Pay Pay
II Topics VII Pay
Principles
Ch. 2.
§.1.
1
§. 1. Reward Sans Service
1.
1. I
Ask why such vast provision
is made for official
ecclesiastics, the answer
is, to promote religion
and morality by instruction.
For this end is this 10 per
cent income tax levied.
p.1
2
An essential character
of reward is, that it shall
depend on the performance
of the service which it is intended
to produce. p.1.
3
By matter of reward
bestowed without regard
to service, the service will
be no more promoted than
by punishment bestowed
in the same manner.
Throw money to a mob
it will not promote
good behaviour more
than firing grape shot
at them. p.2
III Why not exacted.
of punishment contra
4 IV
Simple as these propositions
may appear to be
to all disinterested persons
— & in opposition to these
principles have governing
men acted in forming
Establishments. Why? —
Because the mode of
bestowing the reward was
chosen — or the choice
influenced by the persons
who were to perform
the rewardable service.
p.2
5
To receive the greatest
share of good, the least
of ill, under whatever
name, is every mans
interest. p 2
6
As in other cases of instruction,
so in this, where
the reward is always
the same, the pupils
interest is to receive the
most instruction, the
interest of the instructor
to bestow on him least labour.
p.3.
§ 1. Reward Sans Service
III
☞
7 V
Example. Oxford Professorships,
founded under the
expectation, that regular
instruction would be
afforded by the receivers
of the salaries.
All the regularity which
exists is receipt of salary
and non performance of
duty.
These labourers have
mostly, if not all of
them, received the Holy
Ghost, but the their Holy
Ghost, in informing them
that the labourer was
worthy of his hire, forgot
the converse or they forgot
it. p.3.
8
Since Ao have been
two professors of divinity
(and though their silence
might to any useful
purpose be no loss) yet
of the proposition that
reward to produce any
service should be connected
with the performance
of it they afford as good
illustrations as need be.
p.4
IV. Quantum the less
the better
9 1 II
Where salary is permanent
shewn by J. B. that
service can only be produced
by punishment.
— & that the only use of
salary is to induce a
person to take on himself
the labour in question
& subject himself to
eventual sufferance in the
place of non performance
p.5
10 2
Ergo — So the sum will
induce a man to undertake
the office, the smaller
it is, the better. p.5
11 3
The reduction of expenditure
is not the sole
advantage of this. p.6
12 4
For the rendering the
service in question, an
inducement must have
been found. p.6
13 5
So an inducement
exist, — no matter what
it is — if a little money
will do so much the
better, if none — better
still — if he will pay
for serving — best of
all. p.6
§. 1. Reward Sans Service
IV Quantum the less the better
14 6
The less he is content
to pay receive or the
more to pay, the greater
the proof he gives that
the service is agreeable to
him. p.6
V. Practice contra
III
15 1
The assumption under
which every thing has
been done, is that all
depends upon the quantum,
nothing on the
manner of the application
of the money in
order to produce the
service.
16 2
Thus that the quantity
of religion in a country
is as the quantity of
money given to men
for saying they are
religious and will
make others so.
17 3
So — if you give a
man £200 per annum
he is twice as religious
as if you gave him £100
and he will make an
equal number twice
as religious, or twice
the number equally
religious.
For ordinary
punishment, for extraordinary
— it not being
l remuneration
in money — respect
and hospitality — pleasures
of the moral
structure (over and
above do of the religious
1. Conditional
1.2.3
4
II. Causes why not in
action — unless
of functionaries
2.3.6
5
III. Effect of this inaction
. Example
Oxford Divinity Sinecures.
7.8 ☞ Post off
to the . a Sinecures &c
2
IV. Quantum the
less the better 9.10
11.12.13.14.15.()
3
V. Practice & notice
contra
c.
1
1. Proof of original aptitude
5
3. Economy
2
2. Absence of divertibilty
4
3. Absence of envy to him
3
5. Absence of pride from him
Pride mischief from
1.
2. of hatred
6. Given power which
mischievous
7. So Dignity is
the Dignity
18
to the poor is the
kingd. of heaven
For poor read not
The richer they, do they
can make their point
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