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2 Feby. 1813
Church
Ch. 11.
§.4. Post Reformation
§.5. Practice
§.4. Post Reformation
1
On the extinction
of spiritual authority,
the temporal
sovereign took the
power, & the instruments.
Factitious
dignity too serviceable
to be given up.
p.1
2
As neither any element
of power, so
no species of dignity
was to be given up.
3
The more degrees
in a scale, the higher
the person at the head
of it. p.1
4
The greater the number
of objects interposed
between two objects,
the greater seems the
distance. — p.1
5
Theory and experience
taught this to the
Romish Pope & failed
not to teach it to the
English one. p.1.
§.5. Practice Anglicé
1
Dignity is, not the
direct, but inverse
ratio, of useful service.
p.1.
2
At the bottom, Rectors
Vicars, & Curates.
vying in uselessness
as much as they can.
Above them Canons
& Prebends equal in
dignity and uselessness.
Above them
Deans, more dignified,
but touching
uselessness, equal.
p.1.
3
Archdeacons helping
Bishops to do nothing.
p.1
4
Archdeacons with
judicial and visitational
power. The
first exercised by deputy,
the 2nd exercised or
not according to the
comparative pleasure
and trouble of travelling,
& receiving
homage. p.1.
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