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22 April 1813
Church B. IV Facienda
IV Facienda
Transition
Migration
1. In each every parish, even
during the incumbency of
the Church of England incumbent
any number of householders
not less than 50, being in
proportion not less than
have power to organize themselves
according to Presbyterian
model, and to have
the use of the Church at
all times not at which it is
not employed by the
Episcopal Minister: the
Episcopal Minister having
the preference for as
many times on each
Sunday as the service has
ever been administered
in one such day at
any time within 20 years
last past: the applicant
bound jointly and severally
for all expences
2. Any other Church
not never yet provided with a Temple
of their own to have the
same advantage, so as
the preference be given to
the Presbyterian Church.
No augmentation
to be given to any Anglican
Church: nor in any
otherwise they on condition
of conforming to the Presbyterian
model
4. No person henceforward
to be ordained on
other than the Presbyterian
model, passing examination
Scoticé: ordained, were to
be purposes of taking a benefice.
5. Mortification to Incumbents
to admitt Lay
Elders for Co-Regents: but
this last done in any ones
instance but by his consent:
he recovering (in case of under-
value) remuneration
☞ 6. Compare this mild plan
with the antecedent harshness.
5. The lands of all
Bis Sinecure Dignities
and Bishopricks to be sold
immediately, the money to
be carried to the general fund
life annuities to be granted
to the several incumbents —
amount not less than the
net actual: but rather
1/10 or 1/8 more: to each
places of residence
actually occupied by him
(not more than two) to be
reserved from the sale.
6. The money to be paid transmitted by
the Bank to the nearest Post
Office: thence in ;
7. The proceeds to be
employed in the first
instance in the building
of Temples viz. for the
use of Visitors conforming
to the Presbyterian model
8. Plan the most frugal:
but with liberty to
individuals to subscribe for
decorations.
N.B. No Belfry: sole use
of Bells, supplying the
place of their non-existing
clocks & watches, non-
established Temples have
no bells.
9. Not to injure private
property, the Church Lands
can not be sold but
subject to the deduction
from value produced
by the interest of Tenants
ex. gr. for lives, with
power of renewal.
10. How to introduce
the Presbyterian system without
injury to the feelings
of Episcopalian Laity?
Answer — Whenever the Presbyterian
system is introduced
the Minister to be bound to
off read the Episcopalian
service and on a every Sunday,
it being declared that by the past
two he is not considered
as declaring own in
persuasion in regard to any
of the points of controversy
between the two Churches
§III. Ch. 1. Incorrigibility of
the Episcopalian System.
1. Cause of demonising
the new model incorrigibility
of the old & inference
1. Adopt Scoticé, or
2. Do nothing Give no
more money to Anglicé,
extinguishing Sinecures
for the public purse.
2. Causes of incorrigibility
1. Qualifications for orders
ascertained by despotism,
their
efficiency
causes of .
2. Responsibility more
but secretly acting despotism,
or technical procedure
— thence continued
unfitness
3. Preferrability the
result of gradations of
income: thence
distractive preferment-
hunting: absence of ,
neglect of duties of imperfect
obligation.
4. Income excessive,
more distraction dissipation:
do
5. Income defective —
more distraction performance
limiting, do
6. In the judication for
admission, and in do
for eventual censure,
no members interested in
the existence or continuance
of aptitude.
3. The abolition of Sinecures
— i.e. assumption
into the General Terms
subject to life-annuities
would to an immediate
as well as pure good: the
others might want maturation:
better the property
destroyed than so employed.
4. In between 3 & 400
Parishes there is not now
any Resident Minister
In all these Parishes it
would surely be looked
upon as an advantage
to have a Resident Minister:
especially of
men in every Sunday
precluded by engagement
from preaching any doctrine
contrary to the Ch.
of England Articles.
N.B. Seldom are any
such doctrinal points controversies
touched upon in Parishes.
Insufficientia
1. Equalization of stipends
2. Inferring — or
by payment on the spot
3. Abolishing Pluralities
4. Division of over-large Parishes
5. Union of over small Parishes
6. Abolishing
7. Commission for do
7. Examinations Cantabria
8. Preaching, ex tempore
or part of examination
— Texts drawn by lot
Atterbury
7. Equalization Bishopricks
prohibiting translation
7. Those who consent
to all this, would not
they as soon commit to
Scoticism at once?
8. Abolishing declarations
of opinion
negat promises of trial
abstinence.
N.B. The tyranny implied
in established Episcopacy
disproves not its tude
— but destroys the presumption
raised in favour of it by long
usage. Wisdom of Ministers
say profligacy of former
Ministers — Policy of their
subjects in chastening it.
☞ After or at the end of
Book IV Facienda, or
Chapter subtituled §.1. The
Church how far in danger
§.2. the Author how far an
enemy to the Church
§.3. Queries to the defender
of the Church in its present
state!
☞ This here at the end
of B IV. or at the Conclusion
of the whole?
The Incorruptibles. Frankland &c
Propose that Army &
Navy Officers be made
Bishops, susceptible of
translation.
Impossibilia Salvo Episcopalia
1. Substitution of eloquence
to dumbness
2. Substitution of content
to preferment limiting
3. of strict to loose morality
4. of general sociability
to wealth and .
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