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Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism examined
ChurchofEnglandism and its Catechism examined Author:Jeremy Bentham Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PLAN OF THE WORK. II. Plan of the Work. To the end that, from the first, not only the design of this work, but the connexion between the several parts of i... more »t, may be plainly understood, a brief sketch, explanatory of the plan pursued in the course of it, may be not without its use. I. As to the Introduction:—It is divided into five parts. I. Part I. In this part will be maintained that, as applied to the purpose of instruction, the Church of England Catechism, in so far as it is substituted to the Bible, is a bad substitute: and that, in the National Society's Schools, in effect it actually is substituted to it:—substituted, not simply added. What will thereupon be shewn is— that Church of Englandism is a religion different from the religion of Jesus, and that in these Schools, principally by means of that Catechism, this spurious religion actually is substituted to the religionof Jesus. Short title—The Catechism—a bad substitute to tfie Bible—is substituted to it. II. Part II. In this part will be shewn that, by express provision anxiously made, by the persons, whoever they are, by whom, in the name of the Society, self-styled The National Society,—as if in the whole nation there were no other Society,—the system of instruction carried on in these Schools is directed,—the children of all members of the nation who are not Church-of-Englandists stand excluded from the benefits of it. For the designation of the system by which the accomplishment of this object is aimed at, the appellation of The Exclusionary System, will, in the course of this work, be all along applied. Antecedently to the proofs afforded of the establishment of this exclusionary system, the true nature and tendency of this system will be developed and held up to view. Short title—The Exclusionary ...« less