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 Comprehension in the English Church 147

 Attitude towards Rome in eighteenth century 148Strength of Protestant feeling 148Exceptional interest in the Gallican Church 149

 Archbishop Wake and the Sorbonne divines 149Alienation unmixed with interest in the middle of the eighteenth century 152The exiled French clergy 154

 The reformed churches abroad:—Relationship with them a practical question of great interest since James II.'s time 155Alternation of feeling on the subject since the Reformation 156The Protestant cause at the opening of the eighteenth century 158The English Liturgy and Prussian Lutherans 160Subsidence of interest in foreign Protestantism 163

 Nonconformists at home:—Strong feeling in favour of a national unity in Church matters 164Feeling at one time in favour of comprehension, both among Churchmen and Nonconformists 166General view of the Comprehension Bills 169The opportunity transitory 174Church comprehension in the early part of the eighteenth century confessedly hopeless 175Partial revival of the idea in the middle of the century 177

 Comprehension of Methodists 180

 Occasional conformity:—A simple question complicated by the Test Act 183The Occasional Conformity Bill 184Occasional conformity, apart from the test, a 'healing custom' 185But by some strongly condemned 186Important position it might have held in the system of the National Church 187

 Revision of Church formularies; subscription:—Distaste for any ecclesiastical changes 188The 'Free and Candid Disquisitions' 189Subscription to the Articles 190Arian subscription 193Proposed revision of Church formularies 195

 Isolation of the English Church at the end of the last century 195

 The period unfitted to entertain and carry out ideas of Church development 196

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