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celebration of marriage , and of the legal registry of baptism , the Church possesses and exercises a constant power of annoyance , insult , and degradation . The Church is a system of secular association . The holiest and most spiritual connexion on earth , that between a Christian pastor and his flock , is an article of public sale and of private bargain , is the reward of party zeal in political contest , and is appropriated to the purposes of family favouritism .
The following illustrative extracts are from the public papers : " The church livings in Essex , sold on the 1 st instant , by Mr . Robins , of Regent Street , were not the absolute advowsons , but the next presentations , contingent on the lives of Mr . and Mrs . W . T . P . L . Wellesley , aged thirty * six and twenty-five years respectively , and were as under : Estimated Age of Place , Description , Annual Value . Incumbent . Sold for , Wanstead , Rectory .... , £ 650 62 £ 2 , 440
Woodford , ditto .... 1 , 200 58 .... 4 , 200 Gt . Paiudon , ditto 500 .... 63 .... 1 , 600 Fifield , ditto 525 59 1 , 520 Rochford , ditto .... 700 .... 62 2 , 000 Filstead , Vicarage .... 400 .... 50 .... 900 Roydon , ditto .... 200 .... 46 .... 580 te The biddings appeared to be governed by the age and health of the incumbents , residence , situation , and other local circumstances , with which the parties interested seemed to be well acquainted . —Morning- Chronicle , July 13 , 1824 . "—P . 103 , note .
" To be sold , the next presentation to a vicarage , in one of the midland counties , and in the immediate neighbourhood of one or two of the first packs of fox-hounds in the kingdom . The present annual income about 580 / ., subject to curate ' s salary . The incumbent in his 60 th year . —Morning
Herald , April 15 , 1830 . "—P . 127 , note . The influence of episcopal nepotism in Ireland has been strikingly exhibited in a document , circulated , probably , since this pamphlet went to press , an abstract of a Parliamentary return on the subject of the first-fruits in Ireland , which the reader will find in a subsequent part of this number , under the head of " The Established Church in Ireland . "
Our author shews the completely secular character of the Church of England in the origin of its appointments and the exercise of its discipline , through various other particulars ; but we must now pass on to Chapters IV . and V ., entitled " The Establishment founded in Error , from a Consideration of the Sacrifices by which it is upheld , ' and " by an Exhibition of its Effects on Persons and Society /' The Establishment sacrifices the authority of Christ , tends to destroy the spirituality and unity , the identity and the independence of his church , and impedes the progress of Christianity * In its influence on society it is hos-
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The Church Establishment founded in Error . 523
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1831, page 523, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2600/page/19/
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