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 Christianity enough to induce the people to build the mere walls of only one House of God, and hand it over as the free inherit ance of the people, the endowment being secured already, some miserable peddling calculations are produced, and the clergy are overjoyed; whilst at Greenside, in Edinburgh, the people both erect the church and endow the minister, and yet the magistrates are to be allowed to exact seat rents! It is surely high time that the Church of Scotland were speaking out, and whilst she is asking for more endowments, giving decided proof that She is a faithful steward, for the sake of the poor, of the endowments she already has. 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.