AS TO

CARRYING OUT LORD ASHLEY'S PROPOSAL

FOR THE

SUB-DIVISION OF PARISHES.

"All Christians are commanded to contribute by their profession of
Christianity to preserve it in the world, and it is the very scheme of the
Gospel that each Christian should, in his degree, contribute towards continu-
ing and carrying it on; either by uniting in the public profession, or by the
external practice of it."-BUTLER's Analogy, part. 2, chap. 1, p. 207.

BY

A MEMBER OF THE TEMPLE.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY.

LONDON:

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SUGGESTIONS,

&c.

MANY passages in the Holy Scriptures represent the necessity of instructing the people, and bringing them to a right knowledge of the Almighty and their religion; whilst, in a remarkable manner, the words of Hosea* represent, or appear exactly to concur with, the present situation of our own country. The directions of our Saviour, three times repeated, strongly press the same subject, viz., Feed my sheep. Whilst the observations of our own excellent writers claim

• Hosea iv. 7.

† St. John xxi. 15—17. The comment of Archbishop Secker on Luke xii. 47, 48, is very remarkable, and highly applicable to the present times. See Appendix.

Quoted by Bishop Heber from Bishop Horsley's first Sermon, p. 5,-the words commencing with "It is God's will that all men should be brought to a just understanding of the deliverance Christ has wrought for us."

Those passages in Paley's first Sermon, p.

10, respecting