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6 March 1813 Rudiments
Church Imperfections and Abuses Anglicé with State of things Scoticé
I Imperfects and Abuses
1. Want of Church R
i.e. Exclusion of and
Poor, especially Poor from the
benefit
of religious
instruction
2. Want of Resident
Ministers, thence
of Ministers rendering
professional
services
3. Duties — none unpaid rendered
necessary, beyond such
any man qualified
to be a Parish Clerk
is able to perform.
4. Duties — On the part of
a large proportion of the
whole number, breach of
the negative duty, connoting
in the non-obtainment
of public money the
false pretence: viz. 1. the
pretence of rendering the service
of instruction [+]
5. Less fit chosen and retained in preference
to more fit ministers:
viz. those appointed
by individuals having
little or no interest in
their fitness, to those elected
by the Members of
their Congregations, who
as such have the highest
interest in their fitness
6. Mode of trial, a such
as gives facility
to the admission and continuance of persons
destitute of all desirable qualifications
except the such
as correspond to the duties
which a person qualified
for the fulfilment of the
duties of a Parish Clerk
is qualified for the fulfilment.
II Places where noted
1 Ch. 1. Governmt Teachers
necessary §.5. Anglice
2. Ibid.
3. Ch.2. Duties §.1
or §.5.
[+] where no such service
is rendered, as
in the case of a Sinecure:
2. the non-rendering
of such services,
when there is service of
that same sort to be done
as in case of Non-Residence.
4. Ch,2, Appointment Duties. §.
§.1. or 5.
5. Ch.3. Appointmt.
§.
5. Ch.5. Qualifications
☞ 8 March 1813
Appointment and Removal
before (as
) or not till
after Qualification?
[+] in which in so far
as concerns the propagation
of a lively faith
it is but natural they
should Ministers of even
this Church, should be
surpassed in general by
those of the non-established, especially the Methodist Christians.
III. Causes
2. Creative cause
1. Sinister interest of
the Monarch and the
ruling few, who at the
Reformation to avoid dividing the Church
property into lots too
small for their a to be worth their
notice, combined
these points of
imperfection in the
establishment. Continuation
cause. Continuance of
the same sinister interests
3.
3. Creative Cause. Under Elizabeth,
preference given
to ill over well qualified
Ministers, for
the purposes of preserving
her affirmed despotism,
and clearing
the establishment of
the Parishes who opposed
it. Continuative
cause — Sinister
interest which the Monarch
and the ruling few
have in keeping the
value of such benefices
as are worth their notice
from being decreased
by increase of the labour
necessary to the possession
of them.
3. Causes same as above
Nos 1 and 2.
4. Causes, same as above
Nos 1, 2, and 3.
5. Causes, same as
above, Nos 1, 2, & 3,
and 4
6. Causes the same
as above, Nos 1, 2, 3,
4 and 5.
[+]2 in particular facility faculty
of speaking extempore
in public, in
appropriate i.e. scriptural
language: all
these endowments in the
highest degree of perfection:
zeal exis [+]3
IV. State of things Scoticé
1. Church Ro adequate
throughout.
2. No Parish without
a Resident Minister
3. Duties required
such as are not performable
but by a
life of labour, preceded
by a laborious course
of literary education.
4. Sinecures unknown
Non-Residence unknown.
Pluralities
Unknown
5. Benefices filled
with the exception of
a score or some such
matter, filled by
put in the way of patronage,
and by
having in general but
little if any interest
in the goodness of the
choice: but yet, by the
in virtue of the many
employed for the ascertainment securing
of universal
fitness on the part of
candidates, the matter
so ordered that unfitness,
whether at
entrance, or for any
considerable length of
time afterwards, is
scarcely possible.
6. Mode of trial
such as to secure,
in the most efficient
manner all the several
qualifications desirable
viz. appropriate moral
endowments, and in particular
zeal, appropriate
taste, i.e. relish
for the official occupations
appropriate intellectual
qualifications natural
and acquired, and
appropriate active talent [+]
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