A practical treatise upon several different and useful subjects. [electronic resource] : In which are contain'd, I. An effectual method to augment small livings; and for the more Honourable Support of those Clergymen, who have no Livings at all. II. A Proposal to make the Corporation of Clergymens Sons more useful to its Members. III. A Scheme, for the Relief of the South Sea Sufferers in Distress. Together with Proposals to buy Lands in America; and to make the same Useful and Profitable, as well as to employ great Numbers of his Majesty's poor Subjects. IV. A Rational Way for the Promulgation of the Gospel in America; and for having a sufficient Number of Bishops there to compleat Baptism. With the Means to provide a sufficient Support for their Dignity, by Money to be laid out in our own Manufactures. V. A method to prevent dangerous fires. To which are Added, The Opinions of some Learned Men, both Foreigners and of our own Country, concerning the Church of England: And Archbishop Tillotson's Discourse against Transubstantiation. With a list of the archbishops, bishops, &c. in the Spanish West Indies. By Robert Tate, a Clergyman's Son.