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Simony - Early works to 1800

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    Strictures upon modern simony, and the crime of Simon Magus; or, an enquiry into Mr. Madan's account of simony, in his late Answer to the Faithful Narrative of Facts relative to the Presentation of Mr. H-'s to the Rectory of Aldwinkle in Northamptonshire: Tending to shew the Fallacy of his Reasoning upon the Ecclesiastical Laws; and the Error of his Conscience concerning the Sanctity of Ecclesiastical Preferments: With various Observations on the Kingdom of the Clergy, comparing it with the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

    Madan, Martin, 1726-1790. | Date: 1767
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    A treatise of simony. Wherein is enquired, how far the practice of buying and selling of presentations, so common in this kingdom, may come under the notion of it. By Richard Banner, M. A. Minister of Marston-Chapel in Worcestershire.

    Banner, Richard, 1679 or 1680-1750. | Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]
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