London Nonconformist (Newspaper) - February 2, 1842, London, Middlesex THE The No. 43.-VOL. FEBRUARY 2, 1842. Price 6d. ECCLESIASTICAL Pomp is but the embroidered cloak of trappings adopted as the appropriate representative of palace of throne upon and the canopy under - dominion sits in The sign our notice through it we look at the thing that looks forth the lust of natural desire to exalt above his and to compel the of all others to bow in acknowledgment of his This desire a- state church not merely sanctions but A national founded resident to enact in Christ's And we care not how the vessel may be fashioned into which such authority is whether it be hierarchical or the thing itself is the is ecclesiastical lordship in the name of setting of man over man of religious and and constituting of an earthly tribunal for the decision of questions belonging only to exaltation of worldly might in a kingdom exclusively The burden of a state church is in brief the interpretation of the whole it W. or or is what is and said by mortals in reference to the affairs of another If this be indeed then Christianity is altogether a Here is a power set up which cannot vindicate which cannot execute its own commands which it has to It is just the old story of Phaeton in Apollo's seizing the reins which it is incompetent to and ignorant vanity converting what was intended for the world's light into a scorching and consuming And it to give effect to his lofty assumptions by the ghastliness of his and the artificial attributes of Those Courts which disgrace savage the dens and caverns into which you drags its victims to devour them at what are but the gnashing of the teeth and the scowling of the with which lordship in the church attempts to give force to commands to which it cannot ensure obedience baronial privileges and the union in so many instances of clericy and impious pretences to official and brazen vaunts of apostolical are they all but the high caps and imposing the moustachios of. and clattering with which imbecile dominion aims to swagger appearance of something appearance which may justify its you The inner which remains of us when every successive layer of husk has been power to to to to Christianity which comes hither to deal with intend to put it under authority to a set of garments or torturing irons For what more is ecclesiastical lordship Nothing but the truth which it wields can conquer and truth can do it better without the than with it. The which the must be in the thing where is it likely that the spoken ex cathedra will avail the will Why the will in su bows not to the but to the is swayed purple and fine or by an unmanly fear excited by the dangle of a whip before the or the clank of iron upon the nerves of the If designed as it is to rule the inmost really proposes to do by delivering us up to a lordship of mere and power to inflict bodily we cannot but think it a upon our common which it becomes in the name of that God who made to Are we to fall prostrate before puppets of and lest we should not pay willing homage to shall we be enticed to do it by the fine or compelled to do it by the frightful of some one stepping forward to be the champion Give me your says in tones of mild persuasion blended with out rushes ecclesiastical dressed up for the and showing his teeth growls Now lot us see whether you mean to set me at defiance Give Christianity what she bids or I'll let you see who's There are not wanting men weak enough in the to contend that obedience is due to this usurped this whatever it may choose to We leave such to pay their worship to the god which their own hands have and their own fancy argue that the force of its you shall dwells in what may happen to If it be worship as I Did it may not be halfpence to uphold my form of it may not be discern Ecclesiastical lordship commands in either too in virtue of authority which it pre- exercises on behalf of In either case it is intended to be a supplement to to ensure the doing of something which truth tries to according to this addition of man's shall to Can the one give force to the In a kingdom wherein is appointed sole and sways the sceptre by divine can it be fitting to recognise the usurper and pay the latter that which vvc are commanded to reserve for the If be what need of If obedience to is only a further outrage upon the rights of Does the Supreme employ man to secure for Himself the homage which his own mandate has failed to and after having spoken in vain through his does he dress up bishops to speak for II im Answer or rather the Master of kings of the gentiles exercise lordship over and they that exercise upon them are called But ye shall not be so but he that is among let him bo as the younger and he that is chief as he that doth isf said to the whose successors in a direct and unbroken line are the right reverend fathers in God by divine own who eke out their own pretensions with the sword of and sit in the senate with Shall we ring in their ears an exhortation penned of the flock of God which is taking the episcopate not by constraint but not for filthy but of a ready neither as being lords over but being to the What says of London to that? One more passage and we have no man master on This we presume is as applicable to the laity as to the We shall make bold to obey and in the spirit of true tempt and Its rags we will hold to the light of that all men may see their course rotten and wherever we to real it will be our duty to reply we THE CONSTITUTIONS AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICAL OF THE CHURCH OF from Vol. p. If any after he hath once subscribed to the said three shall omit to use the form of or any of the orders or cere prescribed in the let him be suspended and if after a month he do not reform and submit let and then if he shall not himself within the space of another let him be deposed from the Cautions for institution of ministers into No bishop shall institute any to a benefice who hath been ordained by any other except he first show unto him his letters of and bring him a sufficient testimony of his former good life and if the bishop shall require and shall on due to be worthy of his oath against simony at institution into To because buying and Belling of spiritual and ecclesiastical and execrable before God therefore the and all and every bishop or other person or persons having authority to the election of any or other person or to any spiritual or ecclesiastical or benefice with cure or without to anv ecclesiastical living before every such or confirmation of respectively minister to every person hereafter to be or spiritual or or benefice with cure or without or in or to any ecclesiastical living this in and form the same to be taken by every one whom it concerneth in his own and not by a N. do that have made no or directly or by myself or by any to my or with my to any person or persons for or concerning the procuring and obtaining of this ecclesiastical or living and particularly naming the same whereunto he is to be or nor will at any time hereafter perform or satisfy any such kind of or made by any other without my knowledge or ho help me through Jesus Licenses of benefices and residence No license or dispensation for the keeping of more benefices with cure than shall he granted to any but such only as shall be
