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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER ADDREJED TO THE CLERGY OF SOMERSETSHIRE, RELATIVE TO BT THE REV. S, T. WYUE, M, A, DEPUTY LIEUTENANT fur the County of Somcrsctihirc. NEVER PUBLISHED. 1812. LETTER, November, 1812. Since the Clergy are appointed to maintain a vigilant superintendence over the welfare of Society, so far as its moral or religious conduct is concerned in this life, and its eternal happiness in the next, a member of your order is impelled, by a holy and paramount duty, to direct your notice to a growing evil, which seems calculated, without the strenuous opposition of the Clergy, to defeat the most important ends of their divine ordination. The sanctity of the matrimonial contract has been violated, in many examples that have fallen under my observation, by the practice of abuses which call for the most severe reprobation, not only from those who are ministers of the gospel, but from all who know how to value the obligations of Religion and the dictates of morality. Three or four churches are situated in the environs of the City of Bristol, (and perhaps it is the same in the vicinity of other large and populous towns, ) where the banns of marriage are published, and the ceremony performed, without any inquiries as to the residence of the parries. The consequence has been, that morals are generally corrupted, by the facility with which inexperienced young per. sons can form a connection with improper objects; and the comfort of private families is irreparably destroyed. From the opportunities which these churches afford, the following examples of flagitious conduct have occurred among the inhabitants of a small parish, at the distance of 12 miles from Bristol. In the course of a few months, one man was polluted by an incestuous commerce with his father's wi..
| ISBN-13 | 9781458895820 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458895823 |
| Weight | 1.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $28.76 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 324 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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