A Letter to the Clergy of the Church of England
A Letter to the Clergy of the Church of England

Author: Zachary 1690-1774 Pearce

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781014264237

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A Letter to the Clergy of the Church of England
A Letter to the Clergy of the Church of England

Author: Zachary Pearce

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-17

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780483286306

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Excerpt from A Letter to the Clergy of the Church of England: On Occasion of the Commitment of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Rochester to the Tower of London L] T hat the Welfare of'the Church of England, and'the Safety and Honour of all its Teachers in particular fhould be the confiant aim and endeavour of our Government, is a thing both its felf, 'and highlyfor the Intereit of the Publick: For my partzi have thefe great points as really and as much at heart, as any man has or pretends to have. I love it in it's Faith and it's Difcipline, and have feen and known'fo many of its Clergy, men of clear Reafon and well-rem er'd Candour (and always having a degree of Candour pro portion' to the clearnefi: of their Reafon) that I dare defy any man to produce meachurch or even to draw up a Scheme of one, which does more than This, in its real conflitution, confult either the Ho nour of God, or the Knowledge of Truth, or the Benefit of Mankind im general, and of this N atian inparticular. This our civil Governours are, I am perfuaded, firmly fatisfy'd in 3 they cannot de fire or wifh that pays more deference and. Fubmiflion to the State, or that does more, upon Principle, take the meafure of its temporal Authority frontthe appointment of the Legiflature: As ir is therefore their Intereit and Duty, fo I verily believe it is their Inclination and Endeavour carefully to -fupport it 5 and it would be highly Unreafonableoin us to think, that, whenever their Cenfures fall upon any of our Order; (as they do, in the cafe nowbefore us), they a&, notwithfl-anding LII two powerfuh motives to the contrary, upon either Pafiion, or Pre'udice, or Mifreprefentation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.