Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . om that of the orthodoxchurchmen, by the author of the Address to the ConformingClergy as well as by Daniel Waterland. The latters Caseof Arian Subscription Considered (1721) opened a wordywarfare, which, at last, led to most of the leaders of the complaisant Arians resigning their preferments, and joiningin the second great attempt of the Broad School in this age,the Anti-Subscription movement. One of the e
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . om that of the orthodoxchurchmen, by the author of the Address to the ConformingClergy as well as by Daniel Waterland. The latters Caseof Arian Subscription Considered (1721) opened a wordywarfare, which, at last, led to most of the leaders of the complaisant Arians resigning their preferments, and joiningin the second great attempt of the Broad School in this age,the Anti-Subscription movement. One of the earliest stepsin this direction, after the accession of the House of Hanover,was a volume of essays published in 1749 under the titleof Free and Candid Disquisitions Relating to the Churchof England, and attacks on these were vigorously met byone who now became the leader of the Anti-Subscriptionparty, though he had no hand in the Disquisitions—FrancisBlackburne, Archdeacon of Cleveland. It seems remarkablethat no permanent result followed these efforts, for the viewsof their promoters were in favour in the highest was Archbishop Hutton of York who presented Blackburne. 554 EEVOLUTION AXD BEACTIOX. to his Archdeaconry; and Herring, who was translated fromthe northern to the southern primac} in 1747, was warm inhis approval of such Avorks as Clarkes Prayer Book andHoadlys Plain Account of the Lords Supper (1733). In1750 Bishop Clayton of Clogher, in his Essay on Spirit,pressed for the omission of the Athanasian Creed and a generalreview of the Prayer Book, and the whole principle of subscrip-tion to formularies Avas unsparingly attacked by Blackburne inhis Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury (1754) as the causeof the bad morality of the nation and the inefficiency of theclergy. In his main work, the Confessional, published in1766, Blackburne follows up the same line, denies that anygeneral assent to Church doctrine as a whole can be acceptedas honest, and proceed
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