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4. Churchman's Sinister interest

4. For teaching what is a[...?]ed to be taught /men are [...?] to teach/ of religious truths together with what by there means men /if they teach anything on the subject/ are competent to teach of religious error, for teaching these things or for pretending to teach them without teaching that or any thing, he beholds a set of men paid either[?] larger masses of emolument /larger by far/ than are named[?] to any of the most efficient important laborious offices belonging to the public service.

5. of the many thus ill bestowed of the immense /vast/ mass of this ill-bestowed many the disposal is in a vast proportion in the hands of the Crown /King/: capable of being applied and of course habitually applied to the purpose of parliamentary corruption, in keeping in a state of corrupt and secret dependence on the agents of the King those agents and trustees of the people in /under/ /in relation to/ whom according to the /an/ acknowledged fundamental /[...?]/ principle of the constitution the agents of the King ought themselves to be in a state of constant and universal, though open and judicial dependence.
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    4. Churchman's Sinister interest

    In Ireland, of the people from whom the money is extorted that is applied in payment of this mixture of useless offices and sinecures and useless offices nine-tenths (+) refuse to listen to such instruction or regarding it as worse than useless, charging themselves with the expence of other /a different system of/ instruction on the main[?] subject such as in their eyes appears useful and conducive to its prfessed purpose: of which nine tenths /in the eyes of [...?]/ about seven eighths (||) the effect of such instruction if listened to would be not merely /simply/ pernicious, but instead if felicitous[?] conducive to infinite and eternal misery, inasmuch that in their eyes whatever part of this money is bestowed in sinecures is bestowed in paying men for doing mischief.

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    4. 1 Perpetuation of immorality in the shape of insincerity /shame[?]/ 2 perpetuation of absurdity in matters /on subjects/ of highest importance 3 extortion practiced upon the many for the benefit of a few - 4 in the distribution of rewards /the matter[?]/ idleness and incapacity, preferred to laborious ability and useful talent rare talents laboriously employed employed in public service. 5 the means of corruption poured in a copious and uninterrupted strain into hands constantly occupied in the application of them to that purpose - 6 a vast in any[?] of the three kingdoms a vast majority kept in a state of humiliation debasement /degradation/ and avowed humiliation to no other purpose than to secure the continuance[?] of the other abuses just mentioned - there are the /many/ abuses in the defence of which men of the description in question are exterted[?] and engaged in course[?].

    7 But whosoever is engaged by interest in the support of any one abuse of /in/ government, (it has been already shewn) (+) is engaged by interest in the support of every abuse that remains or shall be introduced /has place or it declared in future[?] to have place/ in government, since whoever has no interest in the support of any one such abuse will, unless by his own might /sufficient power/ he is enabled[?] to support it, look out of course for support from all other quarters from which support is promised to it: the result of which is that for the sake of findung effectual support for the abuses in which he

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    himself is specially interested, each will lend his support to every abuse in support of which any other person[?] member of the confederacy is interested.