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... , and that in many the descrepancies are not so glaring . The Commutation Act embraced all tithes , whether spiritual or lay . Appropriations and impropriations are comprised in the returns , as well as vicarages and B 3 AND REVENUES . 13.
... , and that in many the descrepancies are not so glaring . The Commutation Act embraced all tithes , whether spiritual or lay . Appropriations and impropriations are comprised in the returns , as well as vicarages and B 3 AND REVENUES . 13.
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... spiritual offices in connexion with them enjoyed by the Church , and the high rate of fees which has been exacted for such services . Then there are pew - rents , which the Commissioners treated as ecclesiastical revenue , and included ...
... spiritual offices in connexion with them enjoyed by the Church , and the high rate of fees which has been exacted for such services . Then there are pew - rents , which the Commissioners treated as ecclesiastical revenue , and included ...
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... spiritual teachers , in not having long since delivered them from the temptations to false- hood and fraud , which arise out of the very nature of their financial relations . Before we wholly leave the subject of benefices , some notice ...
... spiritual teachers , in not having long since delivered them from the temptations to false- hood and fraud , which arise out of the very nature of their financial relations . Before we wholly leave the subject of benefices , some notice ...
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... spiritual or moral character , it is a gross encroachment ; for , in the ancient tripartite division of tithes , provision was made for meeting the very expenses which are now defrayed exclusively from this source . Whatever may have ...
... spiritual or moral character , it is a gross encroachment ; for , in the ancient tripartite division of tithes , provision was made for meeting the very expenses which are now defrayed exclusively from this source . Whatever may have ...
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British anti-state-church assoc. the spiritual efficiency of the Church . We have mentioned the Twenty - third Annual Report , because , in the year in which it was presented , there was a return , by order of the House of Commons , of ...
British anti-state-church assoc. the spiritual efficiency of the Church . We have mentioned the Twenty - third Annual Report , because , in the year in which it was presented , there was a return , by order of the House of Commons , of ...
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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...