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A65589	A defence of pluralities, or, Holding two benefices with cure of souls as now practised in the Church of England.	Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1561; ESTC R8846	81,283	204

sufficient Revenue for a Clergy-Man imposing a Tax in the nature of a mulct upon Pluralists possessing more would contribute very little And if the necessary helps to Learning be denied to the Clergy they cannot maintain the Honour and Well-being of the Church nor defend the cause of Christianity in general or of the reformed Religion in particular as it ought to be What can be expected from a Clergy-man however Learned and Industrious when through want of a proportionable Estate he shall not be able to obtain the Instruments of doing good of performing eminent Service to the Church or to the World when his Library must be reduced to a Concordance a Postil and a Polyanthea and his Purse will reach no further Of these indeed Mr. Selden hath said the Library of a Clergy-man doth consist and from thence taketh occasion to upbraid them of Ignorance The Charge indeed then was false for the Clergy were then in a flourishing condition and had arrived to as great an height of Learning as was ever known in the Christian Church But if by the diminution of the encouragements and revenues of the Clergy their Libraries should be indeed reduced to such a condition they would soon give just occasion to the Enemies of the Church to upbraid them of Ignorance and to make their advantage of it If we call to mind all the famous Writings of our Clergy published since the Reformation to the increase and support of Religion the advancement of Knowledge and the honour of the Nation We shall find that they were almost all written by those who were well preferred in the Church A Soul oppressed with Poverty can never raise itself to attempt any great design in this Nature or if it should attempt it in a condition unable to purchase the necessary helps of Learning the attempt would be but vain I know that the Case of Mr. Hooker will be objected against this Assertion But it is a vulgar Errour which the Author of his Life hath also taken up that he was but meanly preferred For to my certain knowledge at the time when he wrote his celebrated Books of Ecclesiastical Polity he had very great preferments of which he died possessed It is no less necessary to the support of Religion that a Clergy-man be able to give Alms liberally and to maintain some sort of Hospitality in the place where he liveth as well to give Example to the Laity as to oblige the Poorer sort to the Practice of their Duty by that Influence which the Application of Charity to them shall obtain The necessity of this is not indeed so obvious in great Cities But whoever knows the state of Country Parishes and the Conditions and Humours of the Poorer sort there will confess that a sense of Religion can hardly be kept up among them unless it be in the Power of the Parish-Priest to oblige them by Charity and Hospitality Above all it is necessary to the preservation of Religion that the Clergy do not want those helps which will give to them Respect and Authority among the People which a bare Competence can never do unless they be able to maintain themselves in a condition above the common Rank of Men. It is certain that it is not so much the force of Reason or the sense of Duty which maintains Religion among many of the meaner and unlearned sort as the Opinion which they have of their Pastors and the deference which they are taught to pay to their Judgment and Direction If the Clergy should be reduced to a bare Subsistence all this authority would fall to the Ground and their Persons thereby becoming contemptible to the People Religion would be despised with them Even among Persons of greater Knowledge and better Education Piety and Vertue in that case could scarce be maintained when such would scorn to converse with those whose Poverty made them far Inferiour to their Quality Men may frame to themselves what Systems they please in their Closets and in Speculation and imagine that the Clergy however poor will still be honoured for their Works sake that Vertue and a conscientious Discharge of their Duty will procure to them everlasting respect and Authority But when these Systems are reduced to practice Experience demonstrates the Folly of them If an Angel should descend from Heaven and take upon him the Ministerial Office if he abstained from working Miracles he would never be able to procure any great Respect to himself or do eminent Service to the Church and to Religion unless he might converse with the Gentry upon equal ground and were raised a degree above the Commonalty Let any Gentleman fancy himself stript of his large Possessions and reduced to a bare subsistence and then let him imagine if he can that his Vertue will secure that Authority among his Neighbours which a large Estate and Power delegated to him for the sake of it did before procure to him In the last place it is necessary that additional Provisions be made for the Reward of those Clergy-men who by extraordinary Learning and Industry shall deserve more than others For without this the Church would be deprived of the benefit of almost all the extraordinary Labours of her Clergy since scarce any would be found willing to undertake any unnecessary pains if after all there were no hopes of being distinguished from others who labour not so much as well by their Preferment as by their Merit It is commonly said indeed that Prebends and other Dignities in Cathedral Churches were intended for Rewards of extraordinary Merit and are sufficient to that purpose But it is to be considered that those are given promiscuously as Benefices are to Men of ordinary as extraordinary worth and that it never did or can happen otherwise that the Persons of extraordinary worth to whom they are given are generally those who ply next at Court that Rewards of extraordinary Merit ought to be provided for the Clergy of other Diocesses as well as for them that many Bishops have not the gift of one Prebend wherewith to Reward their Chaplains and deserving Clergy and the Arch-Bishop himself of no more than three and consequently that no constant Provision can be made for extraordinary Merit otherwise than by Pluralities Other great inconveniencies which would arise from confining the Revenues of the Clergy to a bare Subsistence might be urged as that it would reflect dishonour upon Religion that it would soon introduce a general Ignorance that it would induce them to follow a Secular Life that it would tempt them to prevaricate to flatter Vice in Rich Men and to betray the Cause of Religion in times of Tryal such as we lately saw These and the above-mentioned Considerations make it absolutely necessary that the Clergy should be endowed with and permitted to enjoy ample Possessions and Revenues God therefore foretold it as the great Blessing of his Church which should be founded among the Gentiles that Kings should be her

Natural Philosophy that a superficial knowledge of it makes Men Atheists but a perfect knowledge of it reduceth them to Religion is fully as true in Ecclesiastical Polity An imperfect view and knowledge of the Constitution and State of our Church makes Men desirous of a Change or Reformation but a thorough knowledge of it makes them not only be content but pleased with her present Constitution only desirous that her excellent Laws and Institutions may be put in practice This case of Pluralities was generally esteemed the most scandalous and inexcusable of all her supposed Corruptions yet upon a strict examination of it it doth now as I hope appear to be neither scandalous nor inconvenient but lawful necessary and advantageous to the Church All the real inconveniencies of it proceed wholly from the ill use of it and from the faults of private persons to which the best Institutions are equally subject and which it is to be hoped their Lordships the Bishops will in time remedy by the due application of that Authority which the Laws of this Church and Nation have already invested in them FINIS ERRATA PAge 6. line 14. for grali●i●th read gratifieth p. 13. l. 2● for Asgarvey read Asgardby p. 17. l. 9. for cause r. case p. 23. l. 28. for cause r. case p. 37. l. 3. for true r. truly p. 45. l. 16. for in r. to p. 83. 1. 8. for have founded r. have been founded p. 87. 1. 13. in the Marg. for Alsadi r. A●fredi p. 123. l. 28. for districtive r. districtius p. 124. l. 29. for Clementon r. 〈◊〉 p. 153. l. 28. for derivation r. deviation BOOKS Printed for R. Clavel Publish'd in Michaelmas Term 1691. A De●ence of Pluralities or holding two Benefices with Cure of Souls as now practised in the Church of England The State of the Protestants of Ireland under the late King James's Government in which their Carriage towards him is Justified and the absolute Necessity of their endeavouring to be fre●d from his Government and of submitting to their present Majesties is demonstrated Observations on a Journey to Naples being a farther Discovery of the Frauds of Romish Priests and Monks Written by the Author of the former Book Entituled The Frauds of Romish Priests and Monks set forth in Eight Letters L. Annaei Elori Rerum Rom●norum Epitome cum Interpretatione Notis in usum Serenissimi Delphini unà cum Indicibus copiosissimis oppidò necessariis Will be published at the end of this Term. Compendium Graecum Novi Testamenti continens ex 7959 versiculis totius Novi Testamenti tantum versiculos 1900 non tamen integros in quibus omnes universi Novi Test. voces unà cum Versione Latina inveniuntur Auctore Johanne Leusden Editio quinta in qua non tantum Themata Graeca Voces derivatae exprimuntur sed etiam Tempora Verborum adduntur Tandem ne aliquid ubicunque desideretur in hac Novissima Editione Londinensi cuilibet Voci aut Compositae aut Derivatae Radix adjicitur propria in Tyronum gratiam De Presbyteratu Dissertatio Quadriparita Presbyteratûs sacri Origines naturam Titulum Officia Ordines ab ipsis Mundi primordiis usque ad Catholicae Ecclesiae consummatum plantationem complectens in qua Hierarchiae Episcopalis Jus Divinum immutabile ex Auctoritate scriptua●um Canonicè expositarum Ecc●●siasticae Traditionis suffragiis brevitèr quidem sed luculentèr asseriter Authore Samuele Hill Diaeces●ôs Bathoniensis Wellensis Presbyterio Londini Typis S. Roycr●ft L. L. Oriental Typographi Regis Impensis R. Clavel in Coemeterio D. Pauli MDCXCI Sometime since Published for R. Clavel FOrms of Private Devotion for every day in the Week in a Method agreeable to the Liturgy with Occasional Prayers and an Office for the Holy Communion and for the Time of Sickness A Scholastical History of the Primitive and General Use of Liturgies in the Christian Church together with an Answer to David Clarkson's late Discourse concerning Liturgies Roman Forgeries in the Councils during the first Four Centuries together with an Appendix concerning the Forgeries and Errors in the Annals of Baronius The Frauds of Romish Monks and Priests set forth in Eight Letters lately written by a Gentleman in his Journey into Italy The Third Edition 〈◊〉 Apol p. 337. XXXIV 2 c. LVI 10. Matth. 1● 2. Hist. Conc. Trid. p. 217. c. Hist. Conc. Trid. p. 255. Chron. Hisp. p 〈◊〉 Conc 〈◊〉 pa● 2. 〈◊〉 Ibid. 〈◊〉 A●t 7. ●om 3. 8. Reports 149. Hist. Eccles. L. 1. c. 1● Not. in Epiphan in h●eresi A●ianâ Hist. Eccl. L. 5. c. 22. Defence of Diocesan Episc p. 47. 〈◊〉 Eccl. L. 7. c. 19. ● Tim. 5. 〈◊〉 Epist. 2. Conc Tom. 1. p. 829. Cap. 9 § ● Epist. Gil●● p. 23. Edit Oxon. Conc. Angl. T. 1. P. 53. Ibid. p 495. Tom. 3● p. 188. L●x 3. Conc. Angl. T. 1. p 4●9 Ib p. 413. Descript. ●all L. 2. c. 6. Hist. Eccl. L. I. C. 27. Hi● Eccl. ● 3. c. 7. L. 3. c. ●6 in fine Beda Hist. Eccl. L. 4. c. 27. circa med Antiq. Britan p. 52. L 5. c. 4. L. 4. c. ● Conc. Ang. T. 1. p 3●● Capitular Edit ● BaLazio T 1 p. 416. L. 5. c. 334. ib. p. 896. Con. Angl. T. 2. p. 22. ibid. p. 41. Conc. Angl. T. 1. p. 258. Capit●l T. 1. p. 565. Capitular T. 1. p. 1205. L. 7. c. 375. Ib. p. 1104. Conc. Angl. T. 2. p. 22. Cap. 1. in Capit Franc. T. 2. p. 327. Conc. Angl. T. 1. p. 258. Conc. Angl. T. 1. p. 258. Ti● 1. ● 1● Capitul T. 1. p. 99. Conc. Angl. T. 1. p. 293. Ibid. p. 328. Ibid. p. 248. Capitular T. 1. p. 196. Ibid. p 730. Lex Als●di 24. Capitular T. 1. p. 154 Ib p. 192. I. 6. c. 59. Ib. p. 932. Ib. p. 708. sic 8● L. 1. c. 24. Addit 3 Capit. c. 83. Ib. p. 1172. Can. 14. Can. 20. Capitul ● 5. c. 175. T. 1 p. 857. Conc. Angl. T. 1. p. 258. Can. 13. Cap. 24. Conc. Angl. T. 1. p. 258. Capitular T. 1. p. 416. Ibid. p. 504. V. Selden Hist Decim p 264. Concil Angl Tom. 1. p. 444. Ibid. p. 545. Le● 11. Capital Tom. 1. p. 171. Ibid. T. 2. p. 327. c. 1. Ibid. p. 24. Conc. Angl. Tom. 1. p 621. Ibid Tom. 1. p. 448. Can. 6 9 15. Lex 13. Ibid. p. 545. Capitular T. 1. p. 565. L ● c. 149. Capitular T. 1. p. 730. L. 1. c. 24. Capitular L. 7 c. 198. T. 1. p 1067. Conc. Angl. T. 1. p. 593. Ibid. T. 2. p. 22. Append. ad Conc. Lateran p. 4. c. 4. Conc. Labb T. 10. p. 1569. Hist. Decim c. 9. ●● Con. Angl. T. 2. p 22. ibid. p. 34. Conc. Angl. T●● p. 101. Can. 9. Conc. Angl. T. 2. p. 22. Can. 9. Extrau de Praebend c. Avaritia Ib. cap. D● Monachis Extr. de suppl n●glig Praelat c. Sicut Conc. Ang. T. 2. p. 239. Ibid. p. 253. Canc. Ang. T. 2. p. 44. Ib. p. 183. Ib. p. 440. Cap. 28. Ib. p. 374. Ib. p. 158. Conc. Angl. T. 2. p. 227. Ibid. p. 272. Conc. Angl. T. 2. p. 183. Ib. p. 272. Ib. p. 297. Ib p. 183. Ib. p. ●● Append. 1. d L. 4. c. 14. Capitul T. 1. p. 794. Capitul L. 6. c. 73. T. 1. p. 934. L. 6. c. 73. Ibid. Ib. p. 1291. L. 1. c. 254. Capitular T. 1. p. 565. cap. 11. Conc. T. 10. p. 985. Concil T. 10. p. 1516. Hoveden Hist. par ● ad ann 1179. Can. 29. Conc. T. 11. p. 180. Clement on Tit. 2. cap. 3. gloss Conc. Angl. T. 2. p. 158. Ibid. p. 369. Conc. Labb T. 11. p. 983. Abridgment of the Records Num. 50. Supra Conc. Ang. T. 2 p. 12. Ibid. p. 281. Ibid. p. 34. Ibid. p. 36 〈◊〉 273. p. 35. Conc Angl. T. 2. p 227. Conc. Angl. T. 2. p 277. Ibid. p. 3● Hi●t Concil ●●ident p. 217. Vid. Registr Peckhim sol 159. Cap. 13. Capitular T. 1. p. 154. L. 6. c. 59. Ibid p. 932. Con. Angl. T. 2. p 34. Ib. p. 328. Capitular T. ● p. 146. Ib. p. 369. Lex 3. Conc. Ang. T. ● p. 409. Conc. Angl. T. 2. p. 320. Ib. p. 340 Ex Registro Winchelse f. 34. Pat. 22. E. ● in Turri London Con● Angl. T. 2. p. 612. Extr de Testam cap. Cumin off Par. 1. c. 4. 7. The words of the latter Author are included in uncis Pag. 252. Hist. Counc Trent p. 251 252. 1 Cor. 1. 26. Bishop of Worcesters Charge p. 48. Preface to Hist. of Tithes Isa. 49. 2●