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ROBERT NELSON: HIS FRIENDS AND CHURCH PRINCIPLES. (C.J. Abbey.)

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 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 English Church in the Eighteenth Century

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