AND ITS

Catechism examined:

PRECEDED BY

STRICTURES ON THE EXCLUSIONARY SYSTEM,

AS PURSUED IN THE

NATIONAL SOCIETY'S SCHOOLS:

INTERSPERSED

WITH PARALLEL views OF THE

ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH ESTABLISHED AND
NON-ESTABLISHED CHURCHES:

AND CONCLUDING WITH

REMEDIES PROPOSED FOR ABUSES INDICATED :

AND

AN EXAMINATION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF
CHURCH REFORM LATELY PURSUED, AND STILL

PURSUING:

INCLUDING THE PROPOSED NEW CHURCHES.

BY

JEREMY BENTHAM, ESQ.

BENCHER OF LINCOLN'S INN,

AND LATE OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD, M.A.

LONDON:

PRINTED, 1817: PUBLISHED, 1818:

BY EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE;
Price 20s.

4253 14

J. M'Creery, Printer, Black-Horse-Court, London,

CONTENTS.

PREFACE. . . . . .

Page

i to lv

INTRODUCTION.

1

PART I THE CATECHISM-A BAD SUBSTITUTE

TO THE BIBLE-IS SUBSTITUTED TO IT...

§ 1.-Church of England Catechism-this perhaps the

First Censorial Commentary ever applied to it.

§2.-On Religion, in a Christian Free-School, the

Bible the only fit Lesson-Book

§ 3.-No Substitute to the Bible should be there taught

-the Catechism is made a Substitute to it...

§4.-Badness of this Substitute in every respect: I. As

to Faithfulness.-No Tests of it

§ 5.-II. Badness in respect of Matter

§ 6.-III. Badness in respect of Form

§ 7. Of the Badness of this Formulary, in respect of

Matter, the Framers of it were conscious

§ 8. Of the Badness of this Formulary, in respect of

Faithfulness, Matter, and Form, the Imposers of it

on the Schools are conscious

PART II. EXCLUSIONARY SYSTEM OF INSTRUC-

ITS ESTABLISHMENT-ITS BAD TENDEN-

TION

CIES.

Page

PART III.-EXCLUSIONARY SYSTEM-GROUNDS

FOR THE HOPE THAT THE APPROBATION OF IT

PART IV.-NATIONAL SOCIETY-GROUNDS FOR

REGARDING THE EXCLUSIONARY ACTS AS SPU-

RIOUS, AND ITS REPORTS AS PURPOSELY DE-

CEPTIOUS..

§1.-Cause and Ground of Suspicion as to Authenti-

city

§2.-Marks of Authenticity, proper and usual, in Re-

ports of Proceedings of Public Bodies

§ S.-Positions and Plan of Proof-Ends pursued by the

Institution-Means employed.

§4.-I. Proofs of the System of Exclusion

§ II. (should be) § 5.-Proofs of the System of Imposi-
tion-2. General Committee Meetings none.

§ 6.-Proofs of the System of Imposition continued

II. Sub-Committees and their Meetings, none.

$7.-Proofs of the System of Imposition continued→→

III. Acts spurious ..

74

74

77

82

§8.-Securities against Spuriousness-Cause of the

Omission of them, Necessity and Design-not Inad-

vertence:

8888

T. 164

§ 9.—Authors, acting and consenting, of the combined

Systems of Exclusion and Imposition

§10.-Authors, &c. continued-Dr. Manners Sutton,

Archbishop of Canterbury

§ 11.-How to organize a Chaos-Forms of Disorder

exemplified in these Reports.

12. General Committee-Fraud involved in the Title

thus given to the Managing Body ..

176

189

'. 222

PART V. BAPTISM AND SPONSORSHIP PROPER,
WHEN INSTITUTED BAPTISM USELESS, SPON-

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CATECHISM

EXAMINED

APPENDIX, No. 1.

REMARKS ON THE OBJECT OF THE CHURCH OF

ENGLAND RELIGION, AS AVOWED BY THE Bi-

SHOP OF LONDON

No. II.

Page

1

87

LORD'S SUPPER-NOT DESIGNED BY JESUS

FOR GENERAL IMITATION ITS UTTER UNFIT-

NESS FOR THAT PURPOSE

154

180

REMEDY TO ALL RELIGIOUS AND MUCH POLITI-

CAL MISCHIEF-EUTHANASIA OF THE CHURCH 199

§1.-Plan of this Paper

§2.-Euthanasia, in Contradistinction to Cacothanasia,

what? UTI POSSIDETIS Principle-its Application

§ 5.-Pay continued-Merit, whether producible by Si-

necures

§ 6-III. Discipline

§ 7.-State of Discipline, as exhibited by Authority, and
elucidated by a Diocesan Secretary

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