s. 108.
That a rector or vicar had not only an office in the church, but a freehold for life, by the common law, in his benefice.
! if Archbishop Williams had but seen in a clear point of view what he indistinctly aims at, — the essential distinction between the nationalty and its trustees and holders, and the Christian Church and its ministers
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Ib.
s. 111.
I will represent him (the archbishop of Spalato) in a line or two, that he was as indifferent, or rather dissolute, in practice as in opinion. For in the same chapter, art. 35, this is his Nicolaitan doctrine: — A pluralitate uxorum natura humana non abhorret, imo fortasse neque ab earum communitate.
How so? The words mean only that the human animal is not withholden by any natural instinct from plurality or even community of females. It is not asserted, that reason and revelation do not forbid both the one and the other, or that man unwithholden would not be a Yahoo, morally inferior to the swallow. The emphasis is to be laid on