Chapter I
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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