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A35632 The case of pluralities & non-residence rightly stated in a letter to the author of a book called, A defence of pluralities, &c. shewing the false reasonings and evil doctrines therein contained / by an impartial hand, and a hearty well-wisher to the Church of England. Impartial hand and a hearty well-wisher to the Church of England. 1694 (1694) Wing C966; ESTC R16560 28,436 93

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or Treasury And therefore the main end that Founders could propose in setling Estates upon particular Parish-Churches could not be any other than the constant Supply thereof in Divine things And to make what I say more plain you tell us that Bishops endowed some parochial Churches for the convenience of their Tenants Pag. 90. Now how can it be reconciled to common Sence viz. That Bishops had this primary design in erecting and endowing these Churches not that the Parishes so endowed might have a Priest constantly attending so much as that the whole Diocese might be supplied with a competent Number of Clergymen when whatever he gave according to your Notion belonged before to the common Stock of the Diocese and so the design of maintaining a competent Number of Clergy was as well served before this Endowment as afterward The sum of what need be said on this matter is That whatever meaning the Bishop and Clergy had in accepting these Endowments which yet I believe were very honest and far otherwise than you would have us think for certain those who gave them did chiefly intend the good and convenience of that Parish where they setled a Maintenance And all Rules of Gratitude and Piety oblige us to apply all Endowments according to the Will of the Donours And at first they could not so much as suspect that their designs should be eluded Forasmuch as in that age the Notion of serving a Cure by Proxy was not started And that that this was their first Intention you your self after having made a great stir and bustle do at last humbly acknowledge For pag. 85 86 87. You tell us that Parish-Priests and Churches were not generally settled till the Bishops consented that the whole Revenue of the Endowment were perpetually annexed to the Church of that Clerk who received it i. e. in plain English till the Incumbent might have the Estate belonging to the Church in which he served and not only so but before these great Men could generally be brought to settle their Endowments Parish-Priests were forbid to quit their Cures without the leave of their Diocesan pag. 88. Now what is the reason that these good men would not part with their worldly goods to encrease the common Treasure of the Diocese since as you tell us pag. 59. the first and general design of these endowments was to maintain a competent number of Clergy to serve the Diocese what made them so shy and backward in their Benefactions till they were assured the Incumbent should have all and that he who ministred should have the Endowments that those who were at first instituted on a Benefice should not easily be dismissed from it Truth will out and after all your forced stuffe and whipt Creame you can't forbear to contradict your self and in effect to give up your Cause Formerly that is before the 8th Century as you tell us all Oblations and Profits were at the disposal of the Bishop so that no one who gave any thing to the officiating Minister or endowed a Church could be sure that he who laboured should have the Penny and besides Clergy-men were light and unconstant and often forsook their Cures and no one would stay at a Church any longer than he thought fit but pag. 85. Before the year 800 these two reasons which chiefly discouraged the Erection and Endowment of Parish-Churches were taken away But suppose these well-meaning Gentlemen had foreseen any such things as perpetual Non-residence and serving Cures by Substitutes would not this have stopt their Charity For by this means it is again brought about That the particular Endowments of any Parish do only increase the Common Treasure of the Diocese or some particular men sometimes in sometimes out of it and the Church is no better served than if it had no more than a bare Competence for the Curate Why should not the old Thanes be as well satisfied in haing the Revenues of the Church at the absolute disposal of the Diocesan as of one who was to do little or nothing for it and seldom see the Parishioners but when he came to poll them So that those who were the best Benefactors to the Church and to whose Piety under God the Clergy owe their present Subsistence were in no one thing more abused than by the Permission of enormous Pluralities and idle Incumbents For the time to come you had better keep your Antiquities in your Common Place-Book than gratifie your itch in vending of them when they so little serve your purpose that they do the quite contrary And I believe on reading over what you had writ you were sensible of it and therefore seem willing to compound the matter pag. 152 as supposing that in 1100 years time the circumstances of things may be altered But then what need all this Pother about the first Institution and Endowment of Parochial Churches Whether personal l●bour were required in the old Gallick or English-Saxonick Church or not 't is certain now it is You are indeed so inconsistent and unresolved in this whole matter That 't will be a very difficult thing to reconcile Anthony to Harmer Pag. 73. You tell us in the seventh Century there were none but Itinerant Preachers nay in the 8th Century or the year 731 there were no other but Pluralist Clergymen who had not the care of any particular Parish but executed their Office in this or that or all the Churches of the Diocese as the Bishop should direct them pag. 74. and yet before you had writ three Pages more you were quite of another mind for you tell us that about the year 700 Oratories and Churches were erected and endowed with peculiar Maintenance for the Incumbent which should there reside and execute the holy Function pag. 77. And you say the reason why before the year 800 Parochial divisions were not generally received was because Incumbents thro' levity would often quit their Churches pag. 85. So that sometimes there were none but Itinerants before the 8th Century at other times you tell us there were notwithstanding this Incumbents too who were constantly to reside or when you have a mind to it there were Incumbents but when you think it for your purpose you can presently annihilate them again Nay do but put your two great impediments of the Parochial Settlement together and they will break one another in pieces For the first was that the Bishop had the Disposition of all the Oblations and Profits The second was that Presbyters would leave their Churches in hopes of getting richer pag. 85 87. But now if all were at the Bishop's disposal and he that officiated had not the Estate wherefore should he desire a richer Church If some Churches were richer to the Presbyter than other how was all at the Bishop's disposal When you have reconciled your self to your self and let me know where I may find you you may hear further from me You have here asserted I can't tell what but I am