Essays on State Churches. No. E.

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS

OF

CHRISTIANITY

TRIED BY

THEIR ONLY AUTHORITATIVE TEST,

THE

WORD OF GOD.

BY RALPH WARDLAW, D.D.

GLASGOW.

"What thing soever I command you, observe to do it:-Thou shalt
not add thereto, nor diminish from it."-Jehovah by Moses.

LONDON:

SOCIETY FOR THE LIBERATION OF RELIGION
FROM STATE PATRONAGE AND CONTROL,
2, SERJEANTS' INN, FLEET STREET,

AND

ARTHUR MIALL, 10, BOUVERIE STREET, FLEET STREET.

1866.

YATES & ALEXANDER, PRINTERS, CHURCH PASSAGE, CHANCERY LANE.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE present publication is the first of a series of Essays on the connection between the Church and the State. This series is intended to consist of a selection of the ablest treatises of modern Nonconformist writers on this subject. The second of the series will be a reprint of the following work :

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS OF RELIGION IMPEACH THE INTRINSIC POWER OF THE

GOSPEL.

BY THE REV. JOHN HOWARD HINTON, M.A.

The remaining works will consist of selections from the publications of the Rev. Dr. John Brown, Edward Miall, Esq., the Rev. Thomas Binney, the Rev. Dr. J. Pye Smith, the Rev. D. Young, &c.

2, SERJEANTS' INN, FLEET STREET, E.C.

June, 1866.

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS

OF

CHRISTIANITY

TRIED BY

THEIR ONLY AUTHORITATIVE TEST,

THE

WORD OF GOD.

BY RALPH WARDLAW, D.D.,

GLASGOW.

"What thing soever I command you, observe to do it :-Thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it."-Jehovah by Moses.

LONDON:

SOCIETY FOR THE LIBERATION OF RELIGION FROM STATE PATRONAGE AND CONTROL, 2, SERJEANTS' INN, FLEET STREET,

AND

ARTHUR MIALL, 18, BOUVERIE STREET, FLEET STREET.