Two Addresses: One, to the Gentlemen of Whitby, Who Signed the Requisition, Calling a Meeting to Address the Queen, on the Late (So Called) Aggression of the Pope: and the Other, to the Protestant ClergyRigby, N. (Nicholas)
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Two Addresses: One, to the Gentlemen of Whitby, Who Signed the Requisition, Calling a Meeting to Address the Queen, on the Late (So Called) Aggression of the Pope: and the Other, to the Protestant Clergy
Rigby, N. (Nicholas)
Catholic Church -- England -- History -- 19th century; England -- Church history
So far, Reverend Gentlemen, I think the people will begin to conclude,
that your Reverend body has, for some time, been making a most
"extraordinary and presumptuous movement" on the _pockets_ of Englishmen,
and would to heaven! I could stop here. But I must _now_ show the people
of England, that _your Protestant_ Church as by Law established, is
receiving more money by _four hundred and fifty-three thousands, five
hundred and sixty-five pounds_, than all the other Christian churches in
the _whole_ world. The above _extraordinary_ Black Book, gives a scale of
the _comparative_ expenses of the Church of _England_, and of all the
other _Christian_ churches in the _whole_ world. Now by this scale, it is
shown that the _total_ income of all the Christian churches in the
various parts of the world, is eight millions nine hundred and
ninety-nine thousand pounds; and the above scale shows, that the income
of the Church of _England_, is nine millions, four hundred and fifty-two
thousands, five hundred and sixty-five pounds. Now, if you will just
place the _smaller_ of these under the _larger_ number, and subtract the
one from the other, you will see that the _income_ of the Protestant
Church _in England_, exceeds the total income of _all_ the other
_Christian_ churches in the whole world, by _four hundred and fifty-three
thousands, five hundred and sixty-five pounds_. Oh, mighty England! thou
boastest, _and justly_, that thy majestic fleet rides on the waves, the
triumphant mistress of the seas; and thou mayest also _as truly_, but not
_so justly_, boast, that thy _Scriptural_ Church, as by Law
_established_, rides triumphant on the _golden_ waves of _mammon_, and
that she is _really mistress_ of the world, _in point of mammon_; she is
_truly_ the _grand_ and _golden_ emporium of _clerical_ incomes. Oh, how
justly may the ministers of this Church, address her, as their golden
calf, in these words of the Scripture, "Where _thou_ goest, _I_ will go;
and where _thou_ lodgest, _I_ will lodge; and _thy_ people shall be _my_
people." (Ruth i. 16.) "Yea! and we will kill the fatted calf, and slay
the rams, and make _merry_." (Prov. v. 9.)
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