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W C. Oct. 1812
Church

Principle
Ch. 2. Causes of Inefficiency

4

§. V. Provision Pay excessive

1
In emoluments of p. priests
excess productive of 3 evils.

1 giving the individual
means of dissipation &
abstraction from duty
— it is a bounty on idleness.
p.1

2
Dissipation (as to persons
uninvested with any
duty) a vituperative
term for innoxious &
agreeable occupations.
But these same occupations
in an official man
blameable, or matter
of regret as they abstract
him from the performance
of useful duties.
p.1

3
2. It takes him out of
the sphere in which
he may be most useful,
by enabling him to
move among the higher
classes — it is a bounty
on contempt of the
poor p 2

4 6
5 The office thus becomes
acceptable to opulent
gentlemen, as a provision
for relatives & associates
— so the office
falls not into the hands
of the useful instructor
of the poor, but the agreeable
companion of
the rich p 2

5 4
3. The excess so much
waste — so much evil
by forced contribution
without any good.
p 3

6 5
4 This waste might
have been used to fill
up the deficiency in
the provisions for other
functionaries of the same
kind. p.3

Mischiefs —
1. Tendency to fill the office with
unfit incumbents
2. Tendency to render them
unfit while in office.

☞ See Ch. 7. Pay p.1. Pt 3. Quantum.
Part Equality.

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§. VI. Provision Pay defective

1
Of the case of deficiency
the conception not
so easy.

2

If it be so great as to
occasion non-residence
in that case, the evil
resolves itself into the
evil of non-residence.
p.1

3
If unproductive of
that effect, difficult
to say under what
head the evil is manifest.
p 1

4
1 The less the inducement
afforded by constituted
by emolument
the more by some other
source of gratification,
if he perform it gratis
or pay for performing
it, so much the better.
p.1

5
2 The less likely will
he be to be disinclined
to associate with the
poor. p 1

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§. VII. Pastoral ignorance

1
Pastoral ignorance
i.e. ignorant of the
persons, characters &c
of his flock.
— the pastor a good
or bad shepherd, in
proportion as he knows
or knows not his sheep.
p.1.

2
With reference to the
ultimate evil pastoral
ignorance, it will be
seen is scarce entitled
to the appellation of a
distinct cause — on
a line with the others
but of an intermediate
one. p.1

3
Follow the causes to
which it is referable.
p 2

4
1 Non-residence; in
such case of course
ignorance is complete
and certain. p.2

5
2 Excess in pecuniary
emoluments of
the pastor; not "of the
provision" for that
supposes attention
bestowed — which
never took place —
the whole being the
work of priestly rapacity.
p.2

6
The evil effect of this
excess already brought
to view. So far as conducive
to ignorance
they consist in raising
the priest from the
company of persons
who have need of him
to that of those who
have no such need.
p.2.

7
3 Excess in the population
of the flock.
p.3.

8
When from extent of
space or numbers of
persons there is no
hope of rendering
service to all of them,
the natural consequence
is, the abandonment
of the attempt. p.3

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§. VII. Pastoral ignorance

9
Yes Episcopalian rulers
cloathed in purple
& fine linen read
your condemnation
in the words of the
master whom you
shamelesly pretend
to serve. — p.5

"I know and am known
"by my sheep." John X: 14
"the good shepherd
"giveth his life for
his sheep. he is
"the hireling who
"leaveth the sheep &
"fleeth (i.e. to the ball-
"room & watering
place) "& the wolf
scattereth them" i.e.
to the jail, Hulks
Botany Bay & the
Gallows. p.5.

10
Your under shepherds
flee more than
½ from their duty;
you who have raised
yourself above them
contemn yours, all
of you.
p.5

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