Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham M. A, Vol. 7 of 10: Edited by His Lineal Descendant A particular account of the crimes for which clergymen were liable to be punished with any of the forementioned kinds of censure. Sect. I. All crimes that were punished with excommunication in a lay man, punished with suspension or deprivation in the clergy, 46. - II. Some crimes rendered an ordination originally void: and for such crimes the clergy were immediately liable to be degraded from the very mo ment of their ordination as, first, for ignorance or heterodoxy in reli gion, - III. Secondly, for great immorality before their ordination. 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.