Brief Inquiry Into the Question, Whether a Christian Can Reasonably and Conscientiously Object

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Excerpt from Brief Inquiry Into the Question, Whether a Christian Can Reasonably and Conscientiously Object: To the Payment of Tithes, Addressed in a Letter to a Member of the Society of Friends It may be thought, perhaps, that the document upon which the following remarks are offered is not such as to warrant the inquiry here made into its grounds and spirit. My answer is, I have not been so much-concerned about the document itself, as about the questions which it proposes to determine, and above all, about the ground which it professes to take. The question relating to Tithes has of late acquired a considerable interest in this country, but whether it is generally understood, or truly represented, may be matter of doubt. The document in question has, as I have thought, presented not an unfit opportunity for examining this question, and, as it has assumed the strongest possible ground, namely, scriptural authority, it has afforded an opportunity likewise for inquiring, how far that ground has been made good. I have been unwilling too, as a minister of the Established Church, to lie under the imputation of making unreasonable and unscriptural exactions from those whom it is my duty to teach and to befriend. On these accounts I have thought it my duty to put together and to publish the following inquiry: and I beg it to be understood, that, however lightly I may have treated some of the arguments of the document in question, it has not been my intention to detract in the least possible degree from the respect confessedly due to the Body, from which that paper emanated. 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.