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Excerpt from Brief Remarks on the Common Arguments: Now Used in Support of Divers Ecclesiastical Impositons in This Nation, Especially as They Relate to Dissenters
Confirmation of Tithes and other Grants, for the peculiar Emolument of Ecclefia?icks.
To claim Tithes as civil Dues becaufe they have Obtained the Sanction of the civil Power, is not according to the Senfe Of thofe Laws upon which that Demand is founded. See Stat. 27th and 37th of Hm. Viii. Which after fuppofing them, in the Phrafe Oi thofe Times, due to God and holy Church, and that withholding the Payment of them, is ae'ting again/3 right and good Coiyo'ienoo, do not make an A?ignment of Tithes to the Clergy, do naruo, as a new Grant, but taking it for granted, that they are due to them hy Di'vifze Right, ex ofioio, or by virtue of their Office, do therefore inforce the Payment of them. And accordingly, both thefe Statutes, and that of Edward vi. Which is grounded upon thefe, refirain all Suits and Trials on account of Tithes to the ecclefia?ical Courts; which demonf'rrates they were not onoo'iod or Dues of a civil Nature. Thus, thefe very Laws which are faid to render this Demand of a civil Nature, evidently imply the contrary, by pretuming it is of Divine Right; and as the Clergy claim Tithes upon the Authority Of thefe Laws, they mutt claim them upon that Prefumption. If they have no Divine Right, they have therefore no Right at all. The Trurh is, they have procured Power, by Laws grounded on erroneous Principles.
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