Rates,

R.

Church.-Objections against-answered, 220-221. Property may inhere in a rate, 222. A species of incorporeal hereditament, 223. Origin of-in the legislation of Ina, who commuted voluntary offerings to a regular assessment, or church-shot, 224. Refusal to pay, robbery, 225. Rating for religious purposes under Darius Hystaspes 133-134. And under Artaxerxes, with all the aggravations of a difference of creed upon the part of the persons rated, 135-137. Such rating approved by Ezra and Nehemiah, 138. Christ pays "the

return to the church's position in Anglo-Saxon times, 248. Constitutionally the English church-always independent of Rome, 250-253. No Revolution, 253. The protestant episcopal church the lawful inheritor in equity of the church-property of these realms, 253, 254. Territorial property accumulated in Anglo-Saxon times, 254. Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy a return to original position, 252

Ripon, Diocese of.-Rate of increase of number of churches, nearly 50 per cent., 55. Leeds church-extension fund, 56. Bradford church-extension, 57. Munificence of F. S. Powell, Esq., M.P,, Wheatley Balme, Esq., and Col. Edward Akroyd, M.P., 57; 238. Erection of parsonage houses-baptisms, -confirmations-education-contributions to Home and Foreign Missions, 58, 59.

Schism.-A law of Dissent, 193. J. A. James upon, 205. Strictly forbidden in the New Testament, 205, note. Sigebert King. Establishes the

British church in Essex, 244 Simon, M.-On the difference between religion and philosophy, 44. Three systems of state-religion, 147. The Anglican establishment, 147, 148. General doctrine of, 148, 149. State-churchism said to remit the personnel and matériel into the hands of the governing body, 150.

Supposed doctrinal interference upon the part of the state, 152, 153. Statechurchism destroys religious equality, 154. Idiotic decree of the Commune de Paris, 159. Equality said to be elemental to liberty, 160. State declared incompetent to legislate on matters of religion, 161. State-churchism-a proscription of liberty of thought 162. Ecclesiastical independence compromised, 180. Concerning majorities, 208 Spence, Dr.-Paper in Congregational Year-Book, 82,83 note.

State-Churchism.- Impossible in the times of the Apostles, 47. Rev. J. A. James on, 57. Probably in existence in the time of Cain and Abel, 110114. Three systems of, 147. Implied in the doctrine of the civil diaconate, 16. Said by M. Simon to remit the personnel and matèriel into the hands of the civil power, 149, 150. Implies, as is supposed, doctrinal interference upon the part of the state, 152, 153. Destroys religious equality, 154. Instances of judicious state-legislation upon matters of religion, 162163; 192. A proscription of liberty of thought,162. Independence of the church said to be of necessity compro

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mised, 184. In what sense is the church originally independent, 185. Establishment of Christianity ultimately inevitable, 186. Established churches retain while established their doctrinal and disciplinary integrity, 106. Church sometimes the dominant power, 187. Nullifies the people's suffrage, 193. Tends, it is said, to the corruption of doctrine, 201, Jewish church a state-church by divine decree, 120; 127; 203. Ecclesiastical supremacy of the sovereign declared to be incompatible with that of Christ, 206. State-church should be, it is said, that of the majority, 208. Governments have a private judgment a conscience, and a responsibility of their own. 208. Principle upon which a government should select a religion with a view to its establishment, 210. Alleged multiplicity of orders in the established church, 210-212. Said to afford a precedent for the establishment of Islamism, etc., 225-228. Assyrian and Medo-Persian statechurchism, 128-138. Statechurchism in prophecy, 143;

146 Stevens, Dr. Abel.-Statistics

on voluntaryism, 60

Suffragium

Plebis. In the

church, according to Mr. Noel, 194. Existence in the Apostolic church in appointment of presbyters denied, 195. Meaning of χειροτονεῖν defined, 196, note. Painful effects of exercise of, 198. People incompetent to its proper exercise, 199. Rev. B. Brown on the verdict of a great multitude, 200, 201

T.

Test Act.-Provisions of, 167 Toleration.-Not understood by the doctors of the Middle ages, 165. Intolerance practised by Calvin, and approved by Viret, Farel, Beza, and Melancthon, 165, note. Puritans opposed to, 166. Nation opposed to, ib. Law. -of the nature of intolerance, 168. Bentham on law, 168, 169. Test Act, 168. Toleration two-fold, 169. Unlimited civil toleration-impracticable, 170. The right of the state to create religious disabilities, 171. Locke on, 172. Simon on Mormonism, 172. A limited or moderated toleration quite distinct from persecution, 173. Restrictions upon liberty necessary in the opinion of Simon, 173. Definition of political liberty, 174. Locke upon the province of the civil ruler, ib. Doctrine propounded by the

patriarch Job, 176. Good essentially intolerant of evil, ib. Error, according to Locke, a misfortune not a fault, and, therefore, not to be punished, 178. Heresy not tolerated in the New Testament church, 179. Liberty of consciencedistinguished from toleration, 181. M. de Bonald on liberty of thought, 181. Liberty of conscience-compatible with restrictions upon practice, ib. Trumhere.-British bishop of Mercia, 244

Tyler, Mr.—Metamorphoses of chapels, 88, note.

Wardlaw, Dr.-On the theory of Coleridge, 7. The voluntary principle, 42. Coercion inadmissible in the province of religion, 43; 179. Facts in the evolution of churchlife of the same importance as principles, 46. Statechurchism wrapt up with the Oystery of iniquity in one common doom, 106, 107. Province of the civil magistrate, 177. Principle of an establishment the dependence of the church, 184. The native and necessary result of all establishments-an immensity of merely nominal Christianity, 203

Welsh Bishoprics.-St. David's Llandaff, Bangor, and St. Asaph established prior to the mission of Augustine, 243. Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive.

Strong-minded women accredited ministers of, 83 Westmoreland.-Statistics for

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Winchester.-Diocesan statistics for clergy-churchesand church-sittings, 103