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o | % ^> lii » < # eMeve ^ ihe ^ di ^ tolid ^ « i ^ i&oi AiulL ^ e « i $ elMeB « jsil ^ s ^ ft betw ^ tt ' ft&Ufte prfe < k > pi dnd ^ n ^ l practice « i » dGOiiveBiei (( C 6 i 'io oitr ^ di lir ¦ ? tfttf ^ i ifeg ^ i | i ^ be ; singulai ^ bad andJ % a * batotfi ' ad > i « is » xvis ^^ Kismls ^ Uf with an acknowledgment -df ' k ^ fel ^ !^^ Vj 8 T > ilB * afe 4 i * y ( - «* tetf skrferatbcJirittyv < £ ^ &i 9 Q 9 ^ : li L ) miiih & ajiom ^ y ^ ^^ r ^ . ^ pa ^^ hi ph ¦ & , $ & $ } % % imposed which in practice every one curtails almost ? as he pleases . ,, , „ ... fq the whic
: J 8 e se ^ ms , inclined desire an abro ^ atipQ pf cano n h ^ jBqrb ^ ds jSie reception of the , parent ' as sponsor ; to question the necessity of «* refining tfer 7 j » bric . 9 ]> out 4 ^/? tn ^ -t ^; c ] 9 llcl ;" . and ; to' think the expressions , in the fwm ; . of absolution might properly be . made less strong . He would also soaaewhatsmodify tibe confident hope expressed in the burial service as to the salvation of every individual over whose remains it is used , and also the expression of ' * hearty , thanks" for the deliverance of the deceased from
' * the ; miseriesofihis sinful world . " 8 . Under the head of " Church Edifices , " some judicious remarks are * made on the miserable manner in which churchwardens often discharge their functions , of , repairing and beautifying the , buildings under their care . The can ^ iat Wye made , provisions which are practically neglected , and our author suggests the : necessity of some new regulation . The subject of " dilapidations" is ateK commented upon , and shewn to require some better system .
& * Fader the head of " Church Property" we have much matter not very accpfdaBtwfeh the usual good sense of our reformer , except so far as a gQi ^ d ^ l of shrewdness in turning all his reforms to the , pecuniary benefit of the- te rgy shews a lively understanding of the church's interests . We had always : supposed that the public suffered , much by the annoyances created by certain legal maxims which protect church property against the usual limitations , in point of time , to the assertion of obsolete claims . The
accession of a new rector is generally , we have observed , the signal for attempting to disturb all the moduses , custards arid rjres ^ HjStforis of ( he past , atid no one knows , with regard to th ^ chufchV wlietner . Wl > at hs » been shall be . Our author , however ^ sees only in tlies ^ change sf 4 chance b ^ satn e good thing being lost by ignorance or inattention —? a naig hty remote possibility !^ and he actually proposes to establish a travelling , commission to hunt out the dormant rights of the church and protect them from being lost through the
too easy tempers of its sons , "Wil ^ regard to tithe s , we have much of the empty gps&ip which it has become the fashion to put forth , about tithes being private ^ not pi ^ blic , property * and abotit the church having a sounder and . mote ancient title to its prpperty than that of any lay-holders ; as if the church were some living person * or a ^ if it was cpn templat , e 4 in any arrangement yyitb regard , to church property to infringe g # the rj ^ s ^ tn | d |^ n ; tere . s ^ pf existing hQl ^ ersh , We shall next have a persojii ( iq ^ on (^ ^ j ^ pg 4 iu | % fi # 4 ^" Rr 0 J ^ " ties and interests independent p £ ^ those , of ih ^ ui ^ Kisti ^ n ^ nitos , M ........
Tithes , as usiual , ar ^ ^ arlyishpWft fofrM&WtydWW ^ % W $ rf * i M tfm * reformer is ready to a ^ njit ; t M iffi myy yfm )^ m mVS 9 imi 9 ^ BWA i could get spmething ; a $ g <^ npi . hixi ' . ii-nii-v iuv Next follows , on the subject of church fees , the following r an > us ^ g , pjece , ofecclesiastjica ;! , # rontei » yi : "'to » v . AO-v ^'\ v > fc ^ lar ,...-. u > ::. rlT S " Assuinih ^ tHi ^ bWtlx ^ leto ttii d titl ^ immemorial eridowinenty ; 'thoHcl is ' pe ^ h ^>* I AoL KMnmbmaAjfani < of OhriBtians ^ whidi Has th » e benefit ofiidi ^ in ^ olraiajwatesitind ^ tli ^ servws M a ;< 3 tostvm
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 829, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/29/
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