The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

by Charles J. Abbey; John Henry Overton

INTRODUCTORY.

(C.J. Abbey.)

• Revived interest in the religious life of the eighteenth century [1]
• Lowered tone prevalent during a great part of the period [2]
• Loss of strength in the Puritan and Nonjuring ejections [3]
• Absorbing speculations connected with the Deistical controversy [4]
• Development of the ground principles of the Reformation [5]
• Fruits of the Deistical controversy [6]
• Its relation to the Methodist and Evangelical revivals [7]
• Impetus to Protestant feeling in the Revolution of 1689 [8]
• Projects of Church comprehension [8]
• Methodism and the Church [9]
• The French Revolution [10]
• Passive Obedience and Divine Right [10]
• Jacobitism [11]
• Loss of the Nonjuring type of High Churchmen [12]
• Toleration [13]
• Church and State [15]
• Respect for the Church [16]
• Early part of the century richest in incident [17]
• Religious societies [17]
• The Sacheverell trial [18]
• Convocation [19]
• The later Nonjurors [19]
• The Essayists [20]
• Hoadly and the Bangorian controversy [21]
• The Methodist and Evangelical movements [21]
• Evidence writers [22]
• Results of the Evidential theology [23]
• Revival of practical activity at the end of the century [24]
• The Episcopate [24]
• General condition of religion and morality [25]
• Clergy and people [25]

[CHAPTER II.]

ROBERT NELSON: HIS FRIENDS AND CHURCH PRINCIPLES.

(C.J. Abbey.)

• Contrast with the coarser forms of High Churchmanship in that age [26]
• Robert Nelson: general sketch of his life and doings [27]
• His Nonjuring friends [31]
  • Ken [31]
  • Bancroft and Frampton [32]
  • Kettlewell [33]
  • Dodwell [34]
  • Hickes [36]
  • Lee [38]
  • Brokesby, Jeremy Collier, &c. [39]
  • Exclusiveness among many Nonjurors [39]
• His friends in the National Church [40]
  • Bull [40]
  • Beveridge [42]
  • Sharp [44]
  • Smalridge [46]
  • Grabe [47]
  • Bray [48]
  • Oglethorpe, Mapletoft, &c. [49]
• R. Nelson a High Churchman of wide sympathies [50]
• Deterioration of the later type of eighteenth century Anglicanism [51]
• Harm done to the English Church from the Nonjuring secession [51]
• Coincidence at that time of political and theological parties [52]
• Passive obedience as 'a doctrine of the Cross' [53]
• Decline of the doctrine [55]
• Loyalty [56]
• The State prayers [57]
• Temporary difficulties and permanent principles [58]
• Nonjuring Church principles scarcely separable from those of most High Churchmen of that age in the National Church [60]
• Nonjuror usages [61]
• Nonjuror Protestantism [63]
• Isolated position of the Nonjurors [64]
• Communications with the Eastern Church [65]
• General type of the Nonjuring theology and type of piety [68]
• Important function of this party in a Church [73]
• Religious promise of the early years of the century [74]
• Disappointment in the main of these hopes [75]

[CHAPTER III.]