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Hardcover reprint of the original 1890 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Bentham, Jeremy. The Church Of England Catechism Examined. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Bentham, Jeremy. The Church Of England Catechism Examined, . London: Progressive Pub. Co., 1890. Subject: Church Of England
Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined, printed in 1817 and published in 1818, was part of Bentham's sustained attack on English political, legal, and ecclesiastical establishments. Bentham argues that the purpose of the Church's system of education, in particular the schools sponsored by the Church-dominated National Society for the Education of the Poor, was to instil habits of insincerity into the population at large, and thereby protect the abuses which were profitable both to the clergy and the ruling classes in general. Bentham recommends the 'euthanasia' of the Church, and argues that government sponsored proposals were in fact intended to propagate the system of abuse rather than reform it. An appendix based on original manuscripts, which deals with the relationship between Church and state, is published here for the first time. This authoritative version of the text is accompanied by an editorial introduction, comprehensive annotation, collations of several extracts published during Bentham's lifetime, and subject and name indexes.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ... Thereupon comes the sort of wit, ghostly and ghastly, which, on such occasions, has been so plentifully played off: there we have death, and here we have new birth: death unto sin, new birth unto righteousness. And in this wit we have a subject--not merely for admiration, but moreover for belief: --for belief, of the withholding of which, as if it were in the power of every man to believe or not believe what he pleased, the consequence is--what at every turn, and upon every occasion, stares us in the face--a state of endless torture. Question 16M.--What is required of persons to be baptized? Answer.--Repentance, whereby they forsake sin; and faith, whereby they stedfastly believe the promises of God-made to them in that sacrament. OBSERVATIONS. Obvious indeed are the observations suggested by this answer. But forasmuch as by the next question these observations are themselves undertaken to be obviated, let this next question, with the answers which it is employed to call forth, be first heard. Question 17th.--Why then are infants baptized, when, by reason of their tender age, they cannot perform them? Ansaer.--Because they promise them both by their sureties: which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform. OBSERVATIONS. Perform them?--Perform what?--Here may be seen a cloud of obscurity and ambiguity, derived from a sort of source--a purely grammatical one--such as in a composition so highly elaborated, and so abundantly examined, would not naturally have been looked for. Of such things as are in their nature capable of being "performed" the last thing mentioned, --not to say the only thing, --is what is brought to view by the word promises. Yet, on a little reflection, these things, viz.-promises, (it will be seen)...