English Church Life From the Restoration to the Tractarian Movement, Considered in Some of Its Neglected Or Forgotten Features
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. in New York in America, New York, Brad- ford, 1706, p. 19. Was he the author of the Charter of the kingdom of Chi'isf, London, Morphew, 1717, and De rebus liturgicis. Thesis at Aberdeen, 1714 ? * Spectator, No. 27, Saturday, March 21, 1711. '' Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Oxford Historical Society, 1889, vol. iii. p. 219, 7iote. •^ L. Tyerman, The O xf or d Methodists, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1873, p. 36. PRIVATE CONFESSION RECOMMENDED IN BOOKS. 267 \n Joseph Andrews there ...is depicted a somewhat unclerical parson who yet requires a full confession from Joseph of all his sins, when he finds him lying on a sick bed. And in Amelia Dr. Harrison says : ' this young gentleman will absolve me without obliging me to penance.' ' I have not yet that power,' answered the young clergyman ; ' for I am only in deacon's orders.'^ It may be remembered that Fielding was a Whig and a Low Churchman. He speaks highly of Hoadly's Plain Account. Smollett was a Scotch presbyterian ; yet in Roderick Random he makes the chaplain on board a ship in the King's service, exhort the patient, supposed to be in danger of death, as follows : It is incumbent on you, therefore, to prepare for the great change, by repenting sincerely of your sins ; of this there cannot be a greater sign, than an ingenuous confession, which I conjure you to make without hesitation or mental reservation.^ When the patient declares himself to be a presbyterian the chap- lain leaves him, hoping that he may not be in state of reprobation.
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