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Certainty Court Ecclesiastical
Of certain Nuances under the name of Courts
and of mockery of religion established by
Law.
"It is perhaps to be wished", says that Author of the
Principles of Penal Law "that this statute
[2g C.2.c.g.] had gone a little further, and taken
from the spiritual court Arm every exercise of
Penal Jurisdiction.
A. Z. a poor Welshman, having not wherewithal
to pay the sum of 3 4 for a fee to a
rector was excommunicated. Of this foul
crime of Poverty, whereby he had deserved damnation
, and had been deservedly cut off from the
community of Christians, he was absolved at length in the
Church of kneeling, by the pronunciation
of a solemn and pathetic form of words, beginning
In the name of the Father & of the Son & of the Holy
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Ghost. I mention it not as a matter of blame
to the officers who were concerned in the preparation
& representation of the religious farce, since the
fee might be & probably was partly due, & </lb> there is was no other method of recovering it: I mention </lb> as a scandal to the Law, while because the</lb> Court happens to have the name of Ecclesiastical</lb> One sees that the plain English of this </gap> </lb> sentence is, The Lawyer has got his fee, money and </gap> </lb> you may go about your business. But </gap> are </lb> more ways than one of expressing the same </lb> thing: and none have regularized themselves more </lb> </gap> Ecclesiastics as the art of making </gap> great </lb> things out of small [if unimportant things out of </lb>
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