The rite of confirmation in Anglican thought during the eighteenth century

Church History

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 359-372

  Cornwall, Robert ^a  

^a First Christian Church   (United States)

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EID: 62449201719     PISSN: 00096407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3170861     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. S. L. Ollard, "Confirmation in the Anglican Communion," in Confirmation or the Laying on of Hands (London: SPCK, 1926), 1:176-77
2. Louis Weil, Sacraments and Liturgy: The Outward Signs (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983), 75, 79
3. For a good example of a pessimistic view of the era see Peter Virgin, The Church in an Age of Negligence: Ecclesiastical Structure and Problems of Church Reform, 1700-1840 (Cambridge: James Clarke, 1989)
4. R. Arthur Burns, "A Hanoverian Legacy? Diocesan Reform in the Church of England c. 1800-1833," in Church of England, 265-66
5. Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalog, CD-ROM database (London: British Library Board, 1992)
6. Sykes, Church and State, 118, 121, 132
7. Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton, The English Church in the Eighteenth Century (London: Longmans, Green, 1878), 2:502
8. Virgin, Church in an Age of Negligence, 158-59
9. W. Jardine Grisbrooke, Anglican Liturgies of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Alcuin Club Collection, no. 40 (London: SPCK, 1958), 122
10. George Every, The High Church Party, 1688-1718 (London: SPCK, 1956), 121-22
11. Z. Isham, A Discourse of Confirmation: Preach'd at Coleshill, April 21, 1705. At the Triennial Visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield (London, 1705), 9
12. Francis Prowde, A Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Bridgewater, July 16, 1693. Before the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, at a Confirmation (London, 1694), 17
13. Peter King, An Enquiry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity, and Worship of the Primitive Church, which flourished within the First Three Hundred Years after Christ (1691; reprint, London: S. Cornish, 1839), 222
14. Nathaniel Ellison, On Confirmation (London, 1701), 16-17
15. Also see White Kennett, The Office and Good Work of a Bishop: A Sermon preached in Lambeth Chappel, at the Consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of Lincoln, on Sunday, October 21, 1705 (London, 1706), 6-7
16. Kennett, Office and Good Work of a Bishop, 22
17. Jago, Aspects of the Georgian Church, 42-43
18. Simon Patrick, "An Answer to a Book spread abroad by the Romish Priests, intituled, The Touchstone of the Reformed Gospel, wherein the True Doctrine of the Church of England and many Texts of the Holy Scripture are Faithfully Explained," in The Works of Symon Patrick, D.D.: Sometime Bishop of Ely, ed. Alexander Taylor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1858), 7:297-98
19. John Potter, A Discourse on Church-Government: Wherein the Rights of the Church and the Supremacy of Christian Bishops are Vindicated and Adjusted, 5th ed. (London: Samuel Bagster, 1839), 245-47
20. Henry Stebbing, A Defence of Confirmation as now settled in the Church of England in a Discourse on Acts 8:17 (London, 1729), 14
21. Prowde, Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Bridgewater, 7-8
22. Potter, Discourse on Church-Government, 249
23. Patrick, "Answer to a Book," 7:298
24. Thomas Brett, The Extent of Christ's Commission to Baptize: A Sermon Shewing the Capacity of Infants to Receive and the Utter Incapacity of our Dissenting Teachers to Administer Christian Baptism (London, 1712), 12
25. Robert Nelson, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England With Collects and Prayers for Each Solemnity, 5th ed. (1708; reprint, London: SPCK, 1841), 492
26. William Paley, "On Confirmation," in The Works of William Paley, D.D., new ed. (London, 1825), 7: 224
27. Simeon, Excellency of the Liturgy, 48-49
28. Charles Wheatly, A Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (London: Wm. Tegg, 1853), 375-76
29. Thomas Wilson, "A Further Instruction for Such as have Learned the Church Catechism," in The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Wilson, D.D. (Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1851), 4:1-2
30. Samuel Clarke, "Three Practical Essays, on Baptism, Confirmation, and Repentance. Containing Full Instructions for a Holy Life: With Earnest Exhortations, especially to Young Persons, Drawn from the Consideration of the Severity of the Discipline of the Primitive Church," in Samuel Clarke, The Works (1738) (New York: Garland, 1978), 3:600
31. Richard Watson, An Address to Young Persons after Confirmation (Cambridge, 1788), 1-2
32. Paley, "On Confirmation," 7:224
33. Benjamin Hoadly, "A Defense of the Reasonableness of Conformity to the Church of England, &c. In Answer to the Objections of Mr. Calamy, in his Defense of Moderate Non-Conformity," in The Works of Benjamin Hoadly, D.D., ed. John Hoadly (London, 1733), 1:362
34. Law, "Three Letters," 1:29
35. [Francis Blackburne], A Critical Commentary on Archbishop Secker's Letter to the Right Honorable Horatio Walpole, Concerning Bishops in America (London, 1710), 15
36. White Kennett, Monitions and Advices Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Peterborough, at the Primary Visitation held in the Months of July and August, MDCCXX. By the Right Reverend Father in God, White, Lord Bishop of Peterborough (London, 1720), 21
37. Wheatly, Rational Illustration, 257
38. Ellison, Confirmation, 4
39. Also see Isham, Discourse of Confirmation, 5-6
40. Thomas Wilson, "Sermon LXXXI: The Ordinances of God Attended with Certain, though Invisible Effects," in Works, 3: 341
41. Stubbs, Confirmation, 14-15, 18-19
42. Cf. G. J. Cuming, A History of Anglican Liturgy, 2nd ed. (London: MacMillan, 1984), 142-43
43. Every, High Church Party, 122
44. Grisbrooke, Anglican Liturgy, 122
45. Gordon Rupp, Religion in England, 1688-1791 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), 442
46. Also see Ted A. Campbell, John Wesley and Christian Antiquity: Religious Vision and Cultural Change (Nashville, Tenn.: Kingswood, 1991), 36-37
47. Charles Simeon, The Excellency of the Liturgy in Four Discourses Preached before the University of Cambridge, November 1811, 3d ed. (London, 1816), 48-49
48. David Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1989), 9-10
49. Michael Hennell, John Venn and the Clapham Sect (London: Lutterworth, 1958), 121-22
50. Douglas Webster, "Simeon's Pastoral Theology," in Charles Simeon (1759-1836): Essays Written in Commemoration of His Bi-Centenary by Members of the Evangelical Fellowship for Theological Literature, ed. Arthur Pollard and Michael Hennell (London: SPCK, 1959), 113
51. Clarke, "Three Practical Essays," 3: 570, 73
52. Nelson, Companion to the Festivals, 492
53. Stebbing, Confirmation, 4-5, 10-12
54. Wilson, "Parochialia," 7:8-9, 13-18
55. Kennett, Monitions and Advices, 22
56. Stebbing, Confirmation, 10
57. Kennett, Monitions, 21-22
58. King, Necessity and Benefit of Confirmation, 16-17
59. Gilbert Burnet, A Discourse of the Pastoral Care, ed. Robert D. Cornwall (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1997), 174-75
60. John King, The Necessity and Benefit of Confirmation: A Sermon Preach'd at West-Cowes-Chapel, in the Isle of Wight, on Sunday, August 15,1725 (Oxford, 1725), 4, 6-7
61. Beilby Porteus, A Review of the Life and Character of the Right Rev. Dr. Thomas Secker, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, 5th corrected ed. (London, 1797), 22-23
62. Also see Sykes, Church and State, 116-17