Considerations on the Basis and the Means of the Permanent Security of the Established Church of England - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829. Excerpt: ... which expelled from the throne James the Second and his posterity? At the period of the Revolution, public opinion, which during a century preceding had been gradually strengthening itself in knowledge and in firmness, had emancipated itself from thraldom to despotic power. Advancing in its course even to the present day, it now possesses and exercises over all national concerns and transactions that measure of influential operation, with which, notwithstanding occasional aberrations of judgement and casual ebullitions of irritability, the welfare of a free community requires, under whatever form of government, that it should be invested. What then, is the basis which has supported the Established Church of England from the Revolution to the hour which is now passing over us? Public Opinion. What basis must sustain it, if it is to be sustained, for the future? Public Opinion: under God, Public Opinion only. "Esto perr petua!" But, so far as depends upon man, it must stand, if it is to stand, upon the basis of these two propositions taken conjointly: first, that in the considerate judgement of the public it is for the general benefit of religion in the nation that there should be an Established Church; and, secondly, that the present Church of England is entitled, by the scripturality of its doctrines and of its ministry, to be the Established Church, in preference to any other form of Christianity. These are the two pillars on which the Church of England, as a National Church, rests. And if ever either the one or the other of these pillars which uphold the edifice shall faif; not the house of Dagon, but the Established Temple of the Living God among us, will forthwith be precipitated to the ground, and will cover the length and the breadth of the land wit...

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