Lecture Fifth

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Excerpt from Lecture Fifth: Under the Patronage of the Glasgow Voluntary Church Society: On Civil Establishments of Christianity, as Impeaching Its Intrinsic Efficiency, Delivered on the Evening of March 31st, in the Relief Chapel, John Street The Lecturers by whom I have been preceded, have already introduced the subject under discussion, and shown the connexion of Church and State to be unscriptural. unjust, and injurious. It now falls to me to vindicate the Gospel from the suspicion of requiring inadmissible assistance, in treating of this branch of the argument, I shall endeavour to show - I. That the Civil Establishment of Christianity charges it with inefficiency, and II. That the charge is altogether unfounded. My first position is - That the Civil Establishment of Christianity charges it with inefficiency. The incorporation of the Church with the State has sometimes, indeed, received from its friends explanations and defences, which, if admitted, go far to obviate this objection. It has been averred that a State Endowment is not an essential constituent of a National Church, that though it were withdrawn, the chartered Churches of these realms would still subsist, and be more prosperous than ever, and that the Civil Establishment of Religion is, on the whole, to be vindicated rather as due from the magistrate, than necessary for the Gospel. These view's of the cause which we combat, will be found in the speeches and writings of some of its ablest supporters. And, assuredly, if the Church he so very independent as they allege, and receive State assistance as a mark of respect, which could have been well enough dispensed with, though very becoming in the respectful statesman, none can impute an acknowledgment of weakness to such a representation of the question. But if this ground is taken, let it he maintained, and not exchanged for contrary positions as convenience may require. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.