An Address on the Connection of Church and State; Delivered at Sion College on February 15 1868

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn

ISBN 10: 1154543862 / ISBN 13: 9781154543865

Published by General Books LLC, 2010

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Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Address on the Connection of Church and State; Delivered at Sion College on February 15 1868
• Publisher: General Books LLC
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1154543862
• ISBN 13: 9781154543865
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.161 pounds

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Synopsis

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. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...theology thrive the most vigorously, not by separation, and isolation, and secrecy, but by intercommunion with the domestic and social relations of man--in the world, though not of it. What the marriage of the clergy, what the religious tone of the laity, what the free expressions of religious opinion in literature, are in common life--may I say, what Westminster Abbey is in the ecclesiastical architecture of England?--that the control of the State and the connection with the State is to the Christian Church. We of the Established Church have doubtless much to learn from Nonconformists; but, if we were to become Nonconformists, even for the sake of conforming with opinions most like our own, we could only do so by surrendering--I do not say our worldly advantages, but what I trust most of us would value far more, as the chief privilege of our position, that which binds us to a common Christianity apart from any particular sect, that which unites us to the past history of our country, to the national life of the present, to the possible hopes of the future. HE. I now proceed to state, briefly, the real objections in. objecto the connection, which I quite acknowledge, but which 0M' admit, I hope, partly of an answer, partly of a remedy. 1. There is the impediment which the incorporation Difficulty of ecclesiastical affairs with the State places in the way of of chansean unlimited expression of sentiment, and an unlimited change of ritual or creed. There can be no doubt that nothing but the law at this moment prevents an explosion of opinions and a diversity of worship which would, for the time, be the highest gratification to many excellent persons of all kinds. But, first, the resistance to wholesome changes and removals of restraint exists...