There are six lawful ways of obtaining a bene- fice, viz. : 1. By the presentation of the patron, and subsequent institution ; 2. by election, and the subse- quent confirmation of the person elected; 3. by popu- lation, and the subsequent confirmation of the person postulated ; 4. by free and voluntary collation ,• 5. by exchange; 6. by resignation in favor em, followed by collation. — Landon, Peel. Diet, ii, 164
III. In the Church, of England parochial benefices with cure are defined by the canon law to be a distinct portion of ecclesiastical rights, set apart from any tem- poral interest, and joined to the spiritual function, and to these no jurisdiction is annexed ; but it is otherwise as to archdeacons and deans, for they have a jurisdic- tion, because they formerly took the confession of the chapter, and visited them. It is essential to a paro- chial benefice that it be bestowed freely (reserving nothing to the patron), as a provision for the clerk, who is only a usufructuary, and has no inheritance in it; that it have something of spirituality annexed to it, for where it is given to a layman it is not prop- erly a benefice ; that in its own nature it be jierpetual
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— that is. forever annexed to the church ; and all man- ner of contracts concerning it are void.
Beuefield, Sebastian, D.D., an eminent Calvin- istie divine, was born August 12th, 1559, at Preston- bury, Gloucestershire, and educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1G08 he was chosen Margaret pro- fessor of divinity in the university. Dr. Beneiield was well versed in the fathers and schoolmen, and was re-
an inference hearing on an affinity of race, and thence on the growth of the Semitic languages. (4) 1 Kings iv, 30, " Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the East country." (5) From Isa. xi, 14, it is difficult to deduce an argument, but in Ezek. xxv, 4, 10, Amnion is delivered to the "men of the East," and its city, Kabbah, is prophesied to become " a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching-
markable for strictness of life and sincerity. He died P yf for >cfe - referring apparently, to the habits August 24, 1630. His principal writings are, Dodrina ?i the wandering Arabs ; while " palaces" and " dwell-
1 'hHstiana (Oxford, 1610, 4to) :—Sermons(0 xf. 1614-15, j m«s> also mentioned and thus rendered in the Auth.
2 vols. iU>y.-Exposkion of Amos (Oxf. and Lond, 1613, ^ ers;< ™*T be bft,ter/ rfyd " ««*/»" and " '«**•" The 1620 1629 4to).— Allibone, Diet, of Authors, i, 164. words of J^einiah (xhx, 28) strengthen the supposi-
_,_',„, . ., , ,. . . tion just mentioned: " Concerning Kcdar, and con-
Benefit Of Clergy, a privilege by which, m cerning Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Baby- countries where popery prevailed persons in holy or- , j ghall gmit thug saith the Lord Aris '
ders were exempted, either wholly or partially, from , to Kedar? and gpoil the men of the Eagt ,f heir ^ the jurisdiction of lay tribunals. The privilege was and theh. flocks shall they take . they ghaU tak(j
created out of regard to the c er.cal order but it was t0 themselves their curtains [i. e. tents,, and all their soon abused. It was originally designed for clencti vesseiS) and their cameis»
(clerks), and at first none could be admitted to it but | Opinions are divided as to the extension of the ap- euch as had the usual distinction, habitus et tonsura I llation 0f Bene-Kedem ; some (as Rosenmuller and dertcalts; but subsequently in England, all persons wincr) holdi that it came tQ g> ;fv fte A].abg who could read were by law declared to be clerks, and erall From a consideration of the" a£ovo
the number of claimants almost indefinitely increased. dted and that which makeg menti of the ]and f ™ ab0?lshid. ^ ** 'A and 8th of Geo IV c 28. |Ked Qen xx G [gpc Ishmael] we think (with In America tins privilege has been formally abolish- Gesenius) that it primarily signified the peoples of the
ed in some ot the states, and allowed onlv in one or1 .„„,■ A , / . ~ f, , .. ■■ T ' -^ -
., ,.' . ., ,J .. , ; Arabian deserts (east of Palestine and Lower Egv lit ■),
two cases m others ; while in others, again, it does not A \- a ^ i m e t u i i c r * t
, , , ' , „ ' ° ' . ° and chieflv the tribes oi Ishmael and of Keturah, ex-
.i r the tribes of Ishmael appear to have been known at all. By the act of Con- I * j- * v , „ .
f a -i on -I-™ -. • \ -, ,, . 7\ \. „ i tending perhaps to Mesopotamia and
gress of April 30, 1,90, it is enacted that 'benefit of \ , • *" ' ' „ i i
, ' . '. ' „ , . . which we mav suppose kedem to applv
Babylonia (to
may suppose Kedem to apply in Num. xxiii,
7, as well as in Isa. ii, 6) ; and that it was sometimes