Thoughts on the Anglican and American-Anglo Churches

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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, Ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-ninth day of August, in the forty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, John Bristed, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

THOUGHTS ON THE ANGLICAN AND AMERICAN-ANGLO CHURCHES. By John Bristed, Counsellor at Law. Author of "the Resources of the British Empire," and of "the Resources of the United States of America."

Manet altâ Mente repostum. Virgil.

Εκ των θείων γραφων θεολογούμεν και θέλωσιν οι εχθροι, και μη. Chrysostom.
Study, without prayer, is atheism-prayer, without study, is presumption.
Bishop Sanderson.

In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encou ragement of learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act, entitled "an Act, supplementary to an act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

JAMES DILL, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.

THE following pages are intended, merely, as the herald of a more extended and minute inquiry into the causes of the present positive and relative weakness and inefficiency of the Anglican and AmericanAnglo-Churches; notwithstanding their external advantages, and their truly evangelical liturgy, articles, and homilies, the precious legacy of those blessed reformers and martyrs, who sealed the constancy of their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, by the pouring out of their own life blood.

All personal and party feelings are distinctly disclaimed; the only object being to exhibit the causes, and to point out the remedy of those evils, which have too long marred the beauty and blasted the usefulness of two most important sections of the Christian Church.

I was induced to examine the effects of the English national church establishment, in consequence of being referred, in the winter of 1821-2, to Mr. Wilks's work on "Correlative claims and duties,' by the editor of a most respectable, and truly evangelical, religious journal, published in London. My attention was particularly directed to that por

tion of Mr. Wilks's book, in which a most deplorable picture of the condition of religion in these United States is drawn; and the evil accounted for, by the want of a church and state establishment in this country.

New-York, September, 1822.

JOHN BRISTED.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

ADVERTISEMENT, V. vi.

INTRODUCTION-Protestant episcopal church, 1. Author's fa-

ther, 1, 2. Importance of pastoral duty, 3. Collegiate system,

3. Stated ministry, 4. Formalists, 3, 4. Evangelical clergy, 5,

Rev. T. Scott, 6. Public schools in England, 6. Nominal Chris-

tianity, 7. Atonement, 8. Jeremy Taylor, 8. Fagging, 9. Bi-

shop Huntingford, 10. Bishop Mant, 11. Winchester rebellion.

11. Pious education, 12. Church of Christ, 13. Septimus

Collinson, 15. Anglican church and state, 16. Bishop Warbur-

ton, 17. Religious proscription, 18. Test and corporation acts,

18. Church patronage, 19. Formalism, 20. Bishop-making,

21. Election of bishops, 22. American bishops, 23. American-

Anglo-Church, 24. Tithes, 25. Lord Chatham, 25. British ex-

penditure, 26. Irish state clergy, 27. Irish popery, 28. Irish

character, 29. State of Ireland as to popery and protestantism,

30. Simpson's plea, 31. Micaiah Towgood, 32. Messrs. Bogue

and Bennet, 33. Anglican Church, 33. Edinburgh, 34. Mr.

Alison, 35. Halyburton, 35. Study of sceptical writers, 36.

Infidelity, 37. Medical faculty, 37. United States and Britain,

38. Christian Observer, 39. Dr. Mason, 40, 41. Dr. Chalmers.

42. American lawyers, 43.

CHAPTER I.

On the Anglican Church Establishment.

Rev. S. C. Wilks, 44. Necessity of church establishment, 45.

Constantine, 45, 46. Parliament church, 47. Popish establish-
ments, 48. Present English church establishment, 49. Late
queen and liturgy, 50. Secular religion, 51. State clergy not
martyrs, 52. Irish church establishment, 53. Religion in and
out of the establishment, 54. Anglican bishops in 1760, 55. En-
glish clergy, 56. Secular clergy, 57. Importance of national re-