Chapter II
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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