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CONTENTS
[CHAPTER I.]
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]