How the Church was established.-Meaning of the term National Church. Church and State.-Dissent established.-Lady Hewley's Charity. Dissent endowed.—Meaning of the expression Religion estab- lished by Law.—Earliest mention of the word Established.—Its mean- ing in the Canons.-Its later meaning.-Mr. Bright on Disestablish- ment.-Lord Selborne.-Mr. Chamberlain.-The Scheme of the Liber- ationists. Lord Beaconsfield on Church property.-Lord Salisbury.— Mr. Gladstone.-Lord Granville.-Mr. Miall.-The Sin of Sacrilege.— The Liberation Society.-The Elections of 1885.-The Church De- fence Society. Its organ, The National Church.-The Elections of 1886. The necessity of precaution.-Nonconformity not benefitted by Disestablishment.-William Cobbett.-The Church not so rich as is CHAPTER VII. THE LATER PHASE OF THE TRINITARIAN CONTROVERSY. WE have already noticed two aspects of the Trini tarian Controversy, the first that between Sherlock and South at the end of the seventeenth century; the second that in which Whiston and Clarke were the principal actors, in the early years of the eighteenth century. A new departure was imported into the controversy in 1719. It commenced with a claim to sign the XXXIX. Articles in a non-natural or Arian sense; it culminated in a claim made by the "Feathers Tavern Petition" for exemption from all subscription whatsoever to the Church's formularies. In 1718, Dr. Clarke, in order to suit his doctrines, assumed to himself the right of introducing a new form of Doxology into the Psalms in his church. His new Doxology ran thus: "To God, through Christ His Son, All glory be;" or, "To God, through Christ His Only Son, Immortal glory be." Robinson, Bishop of London, compelled him to desist from the practice, and sent a Pastoral in condemnation of it to the Clergy of his diocese, which drew Dr. |