Three Essays on the Maintenance of the Church of EnglandReprint of the original, first published in 1874. |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Church of Ireland not disestablished | 8 |
How the idea of Establishment arose in the Reformation period | 15 |
Establishment not to be misconceived as Union or Alliance | 22 |
Recapitulation | 28 |
CHAPTER IV | 75 |
50 | 86 |
CHAPTER V | 102 |
It roots a sacred Influence in Society | 125 |
CHAPTER VI | 128 |
That many of the Educated Classes would go spiritually adrift | 131 |
That the Home Mission work would be thrown back | 133 |
That there is nothing better in prospect | 135 |
That Cathedrals could not be maintained | 137 |
That the Established Church is a National blessing Burke | 139 |
That the Unestablished Churches in America are not en couraging | 141 |
It promotes Mutual Toleration | 105 |
It encourages Variety of Minds | 106 |
It preserves the subordination of the Spiritual to the Temporal | 107 |
It deals hest with Novelties in Thought | 111 |
It maintains the safest Guarantee of Truth | 113 |
It secures public Respect for Religion in general | 114 |
It furnishes a Basis of further Efforts | 116 |
It fosters the Parochial System | 117 |
It is the great blessing of Rural Districts | 118 |
It provides a support of Morals | 121 |
It exhibits the National Profession of Religion | 123 |
It guarantees the Protestantism of the Crowu | 124 |
CHAPTER VII | 152 |
That an Established Church fosters worldliness | 153 |
That an Established Church fosters inertness | 154 |
That the Established Church has failed in her mission | 155 |
That the Established Church is wealthy | 158 |
That the Clergy obstruct social reforms | 159 |
That the Established Church has failed in universality | 160 |
That the Church has failed to secure internal harmony | 162 |
That the Established Church creates social distinctions | 164 |
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS | 185 |
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