Enlightenment prelate : Benjamin Hoadly, 1676-1761

Foreword by James E Bradley; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Hero and Villain; The Old Whigs and New Whigs; Hoadly the Lightening Rod; Vitriol and Venom; Recent Revision; The American Hoadly; Hoadly and the Enlightenment; Early Life 1676-1701; A Puritan Inheritance; Education; Locke and Rationalism; Marriage and London; Political Apprenticeship in a London Pulpit 1701 - 1710; Toleration and Tranquillity; Occasional Conformity; The Reasonableness of Conformity; Hoadly's Pastoral Leadership; The Authority of Governments; Low Church Leader; Sacheverell Adversity and Triumph 1710-1717; The Original and Institution of Civil Government; Hoadly and Sacheverell; The Image of Hoadly; Hoadly and the 1710 Election; Latitudinarians at Bay; Hoadly's Advancement; The Church Impungned by Hoadly; Hoadly Mitred; The Preservative Against Non-Jurors; The Years of the Bangorian Controversy 1717-21; The Setting; The Sermon; Early Reactions and Snape; Sherlock and the Test; The Sermon and Dissenters; Hoadly and Law; The Censure of Convocation; Hoadly and Sincerity; Bangorian Shockwaves; Hoadly and the Court; Reverberations; The Significance of the Sermon; Hereford and Salisbury 1721-1734; Hoadly and Lady Sundon; Hereford; Britannicus; Salisbury; Hoadly and Patronage; Winchester; Hoadly at Winchester 1734-1761; The Lord's Supper; Hoadly's Family; The Latitudinarian Microcosm; Hoadly the Bishop; The Last Controversy: Fournier; True Greatness; Living Pleasantly; Conclusion; Appendix: Hoadly in Poetry; Extracts from; Savage's The Convocation: A Poem; Amhurst's The Convocation: A Poem; Amhurst's A Congratulatory Epistle from His Holiness the Pope to the Revd Dr Snape; The Protestant Garland in Praise of the most Noble Bishop of Bangor; An Acrostick upon the Great Bishop of Bangor; Hoadly's Prologue to All for Love; The Protestant Session; Strephon's Revenge: A Satire on the Oxford Toasts; Smedley's A Familiar Epistle to the Right Revd Dr Hoadley Lord Bishop of Bangor; Thomas's To The Most Ingenious Mrs Sarah Hoadley Excellent in Painting; The State Weather Cocks; Cooke's Epistle the sixth to the right reverend Dr Benjamin Hoadly on his Being Translated from the Bishopric of Salisbury to Winchester; Akenside's Ode to the Bishop of Winchester; Keate's To the Memory of Dr John Hoadly Chancellor of Winchester Addressed to Richard Vernon Sadleir; Maginn's Miscellanies; References; Bibliography; Index.