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Page 16
... regard pew - rents as part of the State provision , partaking , as they do , of a voluntary character ; but , on nearer inspection , it will be seen that they are virtually compulsory . The church once built , and the clergyman's income ...
... regard pew - rents as part of the State provision , partaking , as they do , of a voluntary character ; but , on nearer inspection , it will be seen that they are virtually compulsory . The church once built , and the clergyman's income ...
Page 17
... regard for the claims of truth , and instances of disgraceful shuffling and falsehood are unfortunately not rare . Parallels to the following case mentioned by William Howitt , in the later editions of his admirable " History of ...
... regard for the claims of truth , and instances of disgraceful shuffling and falsehood are unfortunately not rare . Parallels to the following case mentioned by William Howitt , in the later editions of his admirable " History of ...
Page 5
... regard to the spiritual interests of himself or the congregation . The friends of the Kirk now concluded that the days of voluntaryism were numbered ; with quoad sacra churches covering the land , and the privilege of vetoing ministers ...
... regard to the spiritual interests of himself or the congregation . The friends of the Kirk now concluded that the days of voluntaryism were numbered ; with quoad sacra churches covering the land , and the privilege of vetoing ministers ...
Page 11
... regard to the number of members and adherents be- longing to the Kirk since the disruption might be sus- pected , we shall quote only from public authorized documents , or from such writers as will readily be allowed to have borne true ...
... regard to the number of members and adherents be- longing to the Kirk since the disruption might be sus- pected , we shall quote only from public authorized documents , or from such writers as will readily be allowed to have borne true ...
Page 15
... regard and confidence of their chief adherents , the heritors , by urging every temporal claim to the utmost extent , and in the most peremptory manner . Is it a time to receive money , and receive garments , and olive yards ! ' " We ...
... regard and confidence of their chief adherents , the heritors , by urging every temporal claim to the utmost extent , and in the most peremptory manner . Is it a time to receive money , and receive garments , and olive yards ! ' " We ...
Common terms and phrases
a-year amount annual value annum Archbishop Archdeacon Asaph average attendance Bangor benefices Bishop Bishop of London BLACKFRIARS blishment British Anti-state-church Association cathedral chapels Church Establishment CHURCH IN WALES Church of England Church of Scotland Church property Church-rates Churchmen clergy clerical Commissioners Commutation congregations connexion David's Dean deanery Denbighshire dignitaries diocese of Llandaff diocese of St Dissent ecclesiastical revenue endow English episcopal Established Church Establishment in Wales estates estimated F. W. Newman four Free-church glebe glebe-houses incumbents Ireland Irish Church Kirk land leases liberty Llandaff London Lord Luxmoore ment Merioneth Merionethshire MIALL AND COCKSHAW ministers moral nett income parishes parishioners Parliament Parochial Benefice patronage pew-rents places of worship population prebend Prelate Presbytery present princes purposes quoad sacra quoad sacra churches religion religious rent-charges Report returns Sir Thomas Philips sittings spiritual State-church tion tithes town TRACTS voluntary principle voluntaryism Welsh whole
Popular passages
Page 28 - For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 11 - ... whatever to the production. When years perhaps, of care and toil have matured an improvement; when the husbandman sees new crops ripening to his skill / and industry; the moment he is ready to put his sickle to the. grain, he finds himself compelled to divide his harvest with a stranger. Tithes...
Page 6 - According to the usual form of procedure, this is the time for making up the roll ; but in consequence of certain proceedings affecting our rights and privileges, — proceedings which have been sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government, and by the Legislature of the country, and more especially in respect that there has been an infringement on the liberties of our constitution, so that we could not now constitute this court without a violation of the terms of the union between Church and State in this...
Page 29 - Ireland and to the three articles of the thirtysixth canon of 1603, and to all things contained in them, and having also before us subscribed a declaration of your conformity to the Liturgy of the United Church of England and Ireland as is now by law established. In testimony,
Page 8 - Commissioners therein named to make a full and correct Inquiry respecting the Revenues and Patronage belonging to the several Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees in England and Wales to all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and to all Ecclesiastical Benefices (including Donatives, Perpetual Curacies and Chapelries), with or without Cure of Souls, and the Names of the several Patrons thereof, and other circumstances therewith connected...
Page 9 - The Parliament is the temporal head of the Church, from whose acts, and from whose acts alone, it exists as the National Church, and from which alone it derives all its powers.
Page 5 - Church ;— and further declare that no person shall be held to be entitled to disapprove, as aforesaid, who shall refuse, if required, solemnly to declare, in presence of the Presbytery, that he is actuated by no factious or malicious motive, but solely by a conscientious regard to the spiritual interests of himself or the congregation.
Page 6 - ... into a perpetuity ; and partly from a tax levied on all ecclesiastical dignities and benefices, according to a scale of taxation specified in a schedule to the act ; in consideration of which tax all first-fruits are abolished. The commissioners are invested with extraordinary powers by the act. Thus, they have authority to disappropriate benefices united to dignities, and to unite them to vicarages in lieu thereof. They have also the power of suspending the appointment to benefices which are...