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te be failed from the fale of appropriat 
tithes *, -will be fully equal to fuch a 
three-fold application. 
ut although an individual may fueeek 
‘witat appears to him beit, and mcf pro- 
per for the occafion, the application of 
farplis money may be feft with due def- 
ference to the wifdom of parliament, 
under the dire€ttin of which we may 
reafenably and refpe€fully truk, it will 
mot be mifapplicd. 
» With regard tofuch lands as remain at- 
tached to parfoneges and livings, through- 
6ut the nation, I fee’ no reafon why 
they thould not be fold, fave fach garden, 
orchard, and fihall patkure grounds, as 
aré commonly found -attached to- the 
dwellings of the clergy. The more fimple 
and tumiform the {yitem of fapport is 
made for them, the more correfpondent 
with ‘the harmony that fhould fubfift 
internally -amone themfeives, as well 
as between them and their refpeStive 
ehurches. - ; 
But the fale of fuch lands being an 
ebject entirely diGtin@ irom removing 
the burden of tithes from zegriculture, 
miay be omitted, and reinain a fubje&t of 
fature coniideration. A non-effential 
alteratien riceed not be contended for: 
@nd if experience fhall prove, that fuch 
fands, temainine in the hands: of ‘the 
elergy, are as well cultivated by thein, 
@r their tenants, at their own pleafure, 
as they would be if otherwife difpofed of, 
Et will be the fame thing to the nation. 
- Should fuch a general alteration as I 
have been faggetting ever happily take 
place, at may become the province of ihe 
tegiflatuve to confider (for the general 
fteterek Ff -religion and the clercy) what 
éeiGiptcns ot the ckrey, or rather what 
Giftinctions of the clerical office, may be 
fpared, particularly fuch as ftand invett- 
ed with local privilégés and immunities, 
hon-eHenital to general comfort and hatp- 
pinefs; “or to-their fervicé as preachers 
of -righteoufnefs. - ies 
Suifice it to’ {ayy in this place, that not- 
withitahdme ‘fone are beneficed; far be- 
yond what their office, or their reafonas 
ble “wants require, While the nvajority 
either have #0 imcome at all; or not a 
tefpeGable one, I would tot go fo. far 
as to ‘propof any diminution of in¢ome 
froma any, during their‘life. 

-may only be neceflary for a few of wy 
te be informed, tharthis term applies 
» theie in the heads of, lay-preprictors 
ave called wagppropriated tithes, and hence 
tacir owners are calied impropriaiass. 
‘Plax for the Abolition of Fithes. Nf T Sub. 
VWrhen aman, who'ts fiot “er; indif. 
ferent to the things. of this world; has 
once been feated tor Jife, in 
afhuence and {plender, 
= -h. & 
+ +r? 
Aw mut 
be “Sr. 
fome ‘to him ‘to ‘be Geprived of it. “The 
ac&- may be-deemed ilftberal, fF net ta 
jutt; and as‘hiren live feonipallts away, 
fo thé burden, in mot \infances whiet 
may ‘be -corifidered’ as €xceptionable, 
would foon be removed. A’nd as-death 
diffolves the poff:flor, the peffefficn to 
another, being no-matter of right, ‘may 
be mcdified to a proper Randard. ~ ” 
That thefe whe bear the fame commoh 
difincticn of bifhop; may be confidently 
allowed the fame common income, it ts 
prefumed, will need but little proof. 
find if one of that diftin@ion can fiub- 
fift in fufficient {plendor on 1-4th or 
4-6th of what others receive, the excels 
may not, by refie&ting men, be deemed 
neceflary. And the nation may well be 
the judge, where the nation is to pay. 
‘The mceomes of the different bifhops 
are fuppoled to-vary, from near 20,0001. 
down to lefs than 1000 per ann. if thofe 
annexed to the fees of Canterbury, York, 
Durham, Winchefter, Ely, &c. thail he 
allowed, by the beft friends to the true 
interefts of the church of England, to be 
great and fuperfluous beyond all ideas of 
propriety, for men who are to fet the ex- 
amples, and inforce the precepts of the 
Chrittiar réligion,---a religion, the ef- 
fence and chatacter of which is lexclizefs 
and jiplicity, a religion which is in eter- 
nal cppofticn to every thing that induces 
pride, ienfuality, and voluptuoufnels ; fure- 
ly a gradual reform of fuch extravagances 
will not be deemed improper. The piotis 
and exemplary Wilfon, bifhep of Sodor 
and Man is an eminent inftance, how 
much dignity and ufefulnefs, in ‘the pre- 
latical character, may be compatible with 
a moderate income. But we will not pre- 
fume to fuggeit a diminution, down-to 
double the income which that venerable 
‘man poffefled ; and, by the wife and bene-. 
velent management cf which, he rendered 
himielf fo much like the temporal. Fa- 
ther of his flock” her : 
As we-difculs this fubjeG in the Wet 
of England, we may take the liberty of 
afking our ‘neighbour, the bifhop of ‘Brif- 
tol, whether, moderately bentficéd -as he 
is, his income be not fafficient to precure 
him all the rational comforts, which a 
chief minifter “of .the meck “and lowly 
Jefus* can want,- for himfelf and. fa—. 
mily?- We tight even prefitme te go. 
‘a dittle. futher and “afk another-pretiits, 
famous jor his learning, talents, and:- 
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