ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a sermon to asses-recommended to Chaplain Bates, and his admirers. Chaplain Bates preached this Sermon in the Cathedral Church of the Metropolis. Chaplain Bates discloses the real object of his Sermon, which is, to disclaim what he thinks proper to call “the flimsy arguments, the subtle artifices, and, daring assertions of self-constituted reformists. In matters of religious concern, it is necessary to have mankind well persuaded of the rights and importance of the clergy, and the divinity of the canons and creeds of churches, before they will submit to be used like asses. The jure divino of episcopacy and presbytery are pieces of trapping that the prophets of the church prepare for those asses they intend to ride upon. There are several sorts of human asses that resemble the prophet’s beast.
