Disestablishment and Disendowment, what are They?Macmillan, 1874 - 54 pages |
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act of establishment Act of Parliament alien priories Archbishop of Canterbury archbishopric argue bargain Canterbury cause Charles the Second Church Establishment Church of England Church of Ireland Church property Church was established civil clergy common corporate property corporation sole Crown deal with Church DISESTABLISHMENT AND DISENDOWMENT disestablishment without disendowment Dissenting dowment duty E. A. FREEMAN'S eccle ecclesiastical corporations ecclesiastical courts ecclesiastical matters ecclesiastical property ecclesiastical purposes Elizabeth endowments English Established Church expedient to meddle held Henry the Eighth Henry the Fifth hold institutions Ireland King land legislate Long Parliament means meddle with Church ment ministers national property once was coextensive particular patronage perty principle private property privileges question religion religious body Restoration right to deal Roman Catholic sense siastical side simply sixteenth century sole or aggregate suppression supreme power tablishment temporal theological thing tion tithe unjust voted word worship
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Page 33 - There was no moment when the nation or its rulers made up their minds that it would be a good thing to set up an Established Church, any more than there was a moment when they made up their minds that it would be a good tiling to set up a Government by King, Lords, and Commons.
Page 19 - In popular language the Reformation sometimes means the throwing off of the authority of the Pope, sometimes the suppression of the monasteries, sometimes the actual religious changes, the putting forth of the English Prayer-Book and the Articles of Religion. Here are three sets of changes, all of which are undoubtedly connected as results of a general spirit of change; but, as a matter of fact, they were acts done by different people at different times, and those who, at any stage, wrought one change...