 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1783 - 520 pages
...diftindions of the clergy ought in fome meafure.to correfpond with the diftinftions or lay» Ibciety, in order to fupply each clafs of the people with a...level and defcription, with whom they may live and aflbciate upon terms of equality. * And is it, fays he, flattery to fay, that the manner and fociety... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1783 - 682 pages
...in fome meafure to correfpond with the diHinflions of lay-fociety, in order to fupply each clafs of people with a clergy of their own level and defcription, with whom they may live and alTociate on terms of equality. 5. It gives a dignity to the miniftry itfelf ; and the clergy (hare... | |
 | 1804 - 538 pages
...orders in the Church, is attended with this good confequence, that each clafa of people i* fupplied with a clergy of their own level and defcription, with whom they may live and affociate on terms of equality. But in order to effeft this good purpofe, there ought to be at Icaft... | |
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The diftinctionfi of the clergy ought in fome meafure to correfpond with the 'diftindtions of lay-fociety, in order to fupply each clafs of the people with a clergy of their own level and defcription, with whom they may live and aflpciate upon terms of... 