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Pluralities Indefensible; A Treatise Humbly Offered to the Consideration of the Parliament of Great-Britain
Pluralities Indefensible A Treatise Humbly Offered to the Consideration of the Parliament of GreatBritain Author:Richard Newton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1744 Original Publisher: Printed for J. Osborn ... and J. Rivington Subjects: Benefices, Ecclesiastical Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprin... more »t of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE PREFACE. /IS often as I confider how many Learned, Serious, and Good Men,. who, in the ordinary Courfe of their Lives, appear not to be led in any thing they do by Covetous or Ambitious Motives, do yet'Accept of Plurality of Benefices with Cure of Souls, I am much at a Lofs to account for their ConduEl in this Particular, which feems ta be a Departure from Serioufnefs and Goodnefs, and which very little Learn- A 2 im ing ts, I think, altogether fufficient to Prove fo. I am well aware how naturally Men are difpofed to Believe what they Wijh; and to Perfuade "Themfelves of the Innocence ofThat in which they perceive the Sweets of any Temporal Pleafure or frofit ; efpecially if there be Nothing in what they Do, that is either Surprifing, or Particular, But, to do this too eafily ; to allow themfelves in a Prattice, which, tho Common, hath in all Ages been jfJe- cryd, without a thorough Search, is to be Afraid, left, upon aftriEl Inquiry', it Jkould be found to be Not Innocent', which is not being Serious ; and if, for want of this Inquiry, they deprive Others of their Right, it is not being Good. 'They They will fay', it may be, there is a Law, 'which permits them to Accept of Two Benefices with Cure of Souls ; and by Quieting them in the Poffejpon, fuppofes them to have a perfeEi Title to what they Injoy. But they fhould conjider, that, in framing Human Laws, the Preju...« less