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4 March 1813
Church

II Topics
Ch. 11 or 12. Responsibility
§.3. Ante-Reformation

§.3. Ante-Reformation

1
Under one name or
other, while the ruling
priests were on, or a
little below the throne,
the useful part of
the clergy was governed
on the principles
of despotism. p.1.

2.
The distinction between
responsibility to good,
and that to bad purposes
shewn above — Under a
despotic government,
responsibility to bad
purpose is strong, — to
good purposes, strong
or weak to any degree.
The bad purpose, is, conformity
to the will of
the despot — good do — due
performance of the
duties of the office. p.1.

3
Ignorance and slavery
natural companions.
For 10 centuries the parish
priests the only
useful part of the clergy,
were in abject ignorance
and correspondent
thraldom. The
temporal monarch,
their superiors, & the
pope brandished over
them, so many discordant,
& iron sceptres.
Though a man can not
serve two masters, he
may be plagued at
different times, by any
Noumber. p.2.

4
The bishop's counts detached
from the bishop's throne
assumed a procedure
more or less defined &
limited by rules, exercised
the authority to
which any responsibility
to a good purpose
was created — conformity
to decretals; & that
portion of law having
more writing than
written law, but yet
called unwritten because
never made, — formed
altogether the lesser
chaos of canon law.
p3

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§.3. Ante-Reformation

5
Necessity and rapacity
caused fees, — and
the feegathering system
necessitating
delay, vexation, and
expense — The system
from a natural,
became a technical
one, necessitating delay,
vexation, & expense
— feegathering
the object, —
vexation, delay expence
and uncertainty,
the result. p.3.

6.
Though in these
courts courts
the judges were
single, yet under
pretence of registration,
for the purpose
of fee gathering, officers
were appointed
who by their producing
some degree
of publicity, made
the jurisdiction less
despotic. p.4

7
The burthen of delays
fell as heavily on the
aggrieved, as on the
aggrievers — Thus misconduct
might
reach almost any
height without punishment,
because
under such discouragements,
the ability
and will to commence
prosecution
were wanting. p 5.

8.
Meanwhile the
Bishop, the monarch
and the Pope, having
unlimited power of
plaguing their slave,
the slightest hint
was sufficient to
make him do the private
will of these
his lords. p.5

9
Thus responsibility
was perfect to bad,
weak to good, purposes.
p.5.

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Date_1	1813-03-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-8
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