Seat Rents Brought to the Test of Scripture, Law, Reason, and Experience

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Excerpt from Seat Rents Brought to the Test of Scripture, Law, Reason, and Experience: Or, the Spiritual Rights of the People of Scotland, Vindicated Against Modern Usurpations, Both Within and Without the Establishment, With a Special Explanation of the Case of Edinburgh, and an Appendix The design of the Author of this pamphlet is, if possible, to call more attention to a question about which much ignorance and misapprehension undoubtedly exist, but which lies at the very foundation of many of the controversies of the present day, and of the success of the Assembly's Church Extension Scheme. So profound is the ignorance which reigns on this subject, that we find not only many of the Church people in towns totally unacquainted with it, but the "Church Commissioners" asking the country ministers to state how many seats are let in their churches! and how many are set apart for the poor! as if it were a matter of course that such an odious and illegal practice prevailed, and that the poor were stigmatised by being placed in a corner by themselves! Nay, we find Lord Melbourne making the following extraordinary and startling assertion, and founding on it an argument, and a pretty plausible argument were the assertion true, against endowments. "In the first place, " his Lordship is reported to have said in the House of Lords, March 30, 1838, "there must be No Free Sittings. The ministers of the Church did not like them, the congregations did not like them. They were contrary to the feelings, the habits, and the prejudices of those who wanted seats in the churches. If free sittings were admitted, then it might fairly he argued that Government was bound to provide them for every body. But there was no ground for such an argument when it was proved that no person would occupy those sittings." Now the whole of this misunderstanding arises from confounding free sittings with pauper sittings. 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.