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" — talk ao like a waiting geutlewomap , Of guns , and drunie , and wounds ( God save the mark !)" if iWs be not sp , l ^ t our readers judge . " They , " the Church Reformers , " would reduce the income of the bishops and rectors , and increase th $ stipends of the curates . It offends them to
see the one class pf Churchmen receiving so much for doing so little , while the Qther receive $ p little for dpjng sp much . " Ope wpuWbav ^ thjqjjght tjjat there ivas a semblance of justice and propriety in «» cji a reformation but the reason of Dissenters has not beep sublimed to the atfiaj purity of Churchmen ; on such topics , alas ! they think and discpurse , pipgue Minerva , with fat-witted logic . Which , says the writer , which pajft of tbe
Church works best ? Answer , The curates . Is it not , then , preposterous to mend that which does pot need meijdtog ? And why is there a deficiewcy of zeal among tbe higher clergy ? Answer , Becav . se they are richly habited and Juxuripusly fed . So , then , you would assimilate the condition p f the evirates to jtha $ of the rectors , in that v ^ ry partjcuJar tp which the inefficiency and negligence of rectors are chiefly ascribabl& " The tebour ^ r , rt ^ y tell us , is worthy pf his hire ; ap 4 they would , tberefpre , so apportion his hire that be should be no longer pi useful jabotnrer ! Such would be tfie prepise effect pf incr ^ asipg tbe incomes of curates to any degree
tjaat might tempt the covetousness or the worldliness of those whp might sjeeft | either for themselves or tbeir dependents , to be put intp c ope qf tpe priest '§ offices that they may eat a morsel of bread . '" ' * The bpmble , stogieminded , § j > iri ) tual man would be jostled out of the way in the crowd of those whp would seek to possess themselves of the very humblest offices in the ministry , with very far different views and motives . And that admirable and indefatigable body of clergy whp at present uphold the character , and upon whom depends the conservations of the Churcn , should give place to a
rice of lazy sineicjjrists resembling tbe Scribes of old , who ha 4 got posses- ? sipn of the keys pf knowledge , apd wbfte they were not disposed to enter ip theoi $ elve 8 , those who would have ^ tered in they hincferedf" Again : " Thus tbe office would be considered as made for the man and ppt the man for the office ; and the Church would b § disgraced and en q mnbered by a bancj pf bloated and purpje ^ nosed dependents , who would be at once the evidences of its degeneracy apej the ipstruinepts of its bumHNip ^ " A $ it
is , mich is jiot the case , because curacies are not « ' good tbingiSt ^ We have seldom met with $ n argympnt conducted wi ^ h wprs ^ faith or to a wonse issue . Tbe reformer says , Take sornewhat from tl ^ e dignitar ies and give to the curates . No , exclaims the Church advocate , for then the curates tfbul ^ be corrupted * What ! corrupted with possessing th § jfleanj * of a decent livelihood I Would £ 200 per annum bloat the cp « ftte # a » ce a # d purple th ^ nose , especially whilst therewith was connected abwdaiit oocu ^ pation I But if so , what must be the effect pjf £ 2000 , ox 20 , 000 , per
annum ? How corrupted must ; be the ppssessorsof these enormous sums ! Aad ift as the wrijer concedes , t , he cx ^ r ^ tes uphold ip $ cbswracler pf the Church , why should there exist tbe prodigious revenues pf rectojrs , bishops , and archbishops ? > The writer forgot that his argunptept cut two ways , if good for any thing , and would set aside the bishop as well as keep the turate starving . How man ^ * humbl ^^ iiid « itt g ! e-niiiided inert" have oeen jostled out of the wtoy in the confetttten vftiph has taken place fot the high and opulent placed of the Iriah Ch ^ cb , he cm b ^* t jitffee ; &n $ cert ^ y ^ tendency of his remarks is to the destruction of fill fat r $# \ virw « pf . # & bi ^ Wcby ^ Tw
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/54/
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