The English Church in the Eighteenth Century. John Henry Overton

       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 31Ken 31Bancroft and Frampton 32Kettlewell 33Dodwell 34Hickes 36Lee 38Brokesby, Jeremy Collier, &c. 39Exclusiveness among many Nonjurors 39

       His friends in the National Church 40Bull 40Beveridge 42Sharp 44Smalridge 46Grabe 47Bray 48Oglethorpe, 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.

      THE DEISTS.

      (J.H. Overton.)

       Points at issue in the Deistical controversy 75–6

       Deists not properly a sect 76

       Some negative tenets of the Deists 77

       Excitement caused by the subject of Deism 78

       Toland's 'Christianity not mysterious' 79

       Shaftesbury's 'Characteristics' 80–2

       His protest against the Utilitarian view of Christianity 81

       Collins's 'Discourse of Freethinking' 82–3

       Bentley's 'Remarks' on Collins' 83–4

       Collins's 'Discourse on the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion' 84–5

       Woolston's 'Six Discourses on the Miracles' 85

       Sherlock's 'Tryal of the Witnesses' 86

       Annet's 'Resurrection of Jesus Considered'