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Pluralities Indefensible, by a Presbyter of the Church of England [r. Newton].
Pluralities Indefensible by a Presbyter of the Church of England - r. Newton Author:Richard Newton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1745 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: lent of every Church they fhould Ereclt and Indow. That This was their way of thinking, the Defender acknowledges, by faying, that, (a) " When fome great 'c Laymen would have appropriated " thefe Revenues to the Sole Ufe of " the Churches founded by them; the joint Autority of Church and " State Interpofed, and remitted them V to the Difpofition of the Bifhop." And what was the Confequence of this Interpofition ? Why, what it naturally would be, a "Forbeara? ice to Build and Indow Churches, till they mould be Gratified in fo very reafon- able a Defire. For the Joint Autority pf Church and State could not Oblige them to it And what was. the Confequence of this Forbearance ? Why, M P. 79. the the Defender will tell you (a), It was, in time, a Compliance with the Laity in this Particular. For he fays, " The " Bimops finding the Devotion of " Lay Founders retrained, at laft " Condefcended that the Whole Rc- " venue of the Indowment, with all " Other Ecclefiaftical Profits which " fhould come to the hands of the " Prieft officiating at fuch a Church, " fhould be taken from the Common " Treafure of the Diocefe, and be " perpetually annex'd to the Church " of that Clerk who receiv'd it: So " that the Bifhop ftould not any ' longer receive Thofe Profits, nor " the Incumbent expeft his Salary c from the Bifhop. This the Bifhops " willingly did, as foon as by the " Erection of many Parijh Priefts, u the Neceflity of maintaining fo " many Itinerant Priefts ceas'd, and C) P. 8f. " their t' their Cathedrals were fufficiently " Indow'd for the Maintenance of c' Themfelves and their College of " Clergy conftan...« less