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Excerpt from The Purchase of Next Presentations and the Law of Simony
T is frequently said that this is a time both of Church assault and of Church defence. If it be so, it ought also to be a time of Church reform. Assailants ought to be willing, and can hardly declare themselves unwilling, to see abuses that they denounce swept away; while defenders ought to lend eager aid towards the removal of blemishes that they cannot justify. Reform of things really requiring reform is the proper reply to assault and the complement of defence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
