Evangelicals in the Church of England 1734-1984

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A&C Black, Jun 1, 1992 - Religion - 424 pages
A comprehensive and balanced history of the Evangelicals in the Church of England.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Part 1 17341789
15
Part 2 17891833
61
Part 3 18331901
109
Part 4 19011945
225
Part 5 19451984
285
Bibliography
355
Index of Authors
369
Index of Persons
375
Index of Places
391
General Index
395
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Page 43 - No poet wept him ; but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear : And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. "I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date : But misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
Page 254 - For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Page 77 - Unless the Divine Power has raised you up to be as Athanasius contra mundum, I see not how you can go through your glorious enterprise, in opposing that execrable villainy which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils; but if God be for you, who can be against you?
Page 6 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 103 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 5 - ... in this we cannot be mistaken, that an open and professed disregard > to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age...
Page 71 - The thought rushed into my mind, What ! may I transfer all my guilt to another? Has God provided an offering for me, that I may lay my sins on his head ? then, God willing, I will not bear them on my own soul one moment longer.
Page 258 - An outstanding and pressing duty of the Church is to convince its members of the necessity of nothing less than a fundamental change in the spirit and working of our economic life. This change can only be effected by accepting as the basis of industrial relations the principle of co-operation in service for the common good in place of unrestricted competition for private or sectional advantage.

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