The Institution and Abuse of Ecclesiastical Property

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T. Cadell, 1831 - 214 oldal
 

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53. oldal - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
3. oldal - For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed [the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
76. oldal - Law, a tenth of all the produce of the land was conferred on the priesthood; and, forgetting what they themselves taught, that the moral part only of that law was obligatory on Christians, they insisted that this donation conveyed a perpetual property, inherent by divine right in those who officiated at the altar.
18. oldal - Positive Laws are either permanent, or else changeable, according as the matter itself is concerning which they were first made. Whether God or man be the maker of them, alteration they so far forth admit, as the matter doth exact.
39. oldal - ... holding their peace, by day and by night, and every hour, in all places, and at all times, everywhere and always. The heavens were adjured to be as brass to them, and the earth as iron; the 'one to reject their bodies, and the other their souls. God was invoked, in this accursed service, to afflict them with hunger and thirst, with poverty and want, with cold and with fever, with scabs and ulcers and itch, with blindness and madness, ... to eject them from their homes, and consume their substance,...
175. oldal - But if, as is generally, and always ought to be, the case (for we do not argue the question on the abuse, but the proper use, of ecclesiastical endowments), the incumbent should reside upon his benefice, should expend his income among his parishioners, and devote his time and talent to their instruction and improvement, it must surely be more advantageous, not only to the inhabitants of each parish, but also to the public, that an ecclesiastic, so discharging the functions of his office, should receive...
72. oldal - ... in order to avoid the sufferings and penalties annexed by the priests to transgression in this life, and to escape the misery denounced against the wicked in a future state. This new and commodious, method of making atonement for iniquity, was the principal source of those immense treasures, which, from this period, began to flow in upon the clergy, the churches and monasteries, and continued to enrich them through succeeding ages dmvn to the present time.
144. oldal - Immediately. instruct the people, and to be of good life, by some testimonial of six preachers of the county where the party dwelleth. 3. That from henceforth no dispensation or toleration shall be allowed to any to have or retain two or more benefices with cure of souls or to be non-resident; and that such as now have double benefices or be non-resident shall give sufficient allowance yearly to maintain a preacher in their absence...
114. oldal - ... to inform them and the people of the law of God, and to make hospitalities, alms, and other works of charity, in the places where the churches were founded, for the souls of the founders, their heirs, and all Christians...
72. oldal - An opinion prevailed universally at this time, though its authors are not known, that the punishment which the righteous judge of the world has reserved for the transgressions of the wicked, was to be prevented and annulled, by liberal donations to God, to the saints, to the churches and clergy. In consequence of this notion, the great and opulent, who were, generally speaking, the most remarkable for their flagitious and abominable lives, offered, out of the abundance which they had received by...

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