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The Bishops and the Brethren: Anglican Attitudes to the Moravians in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

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C. J. Podmore
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Most Anglican crises, including recent ones, seem to boil down in the end to two linked questions — those of identity and authority. Is the Church of England pre-eminently a national or a catholic Church, a Protestant Church (and if so, of what kind?) or Anglican and sui generis? With which of these types of Church should it align itself? Where lies the famed via media, and which are the extremes to be avoided? And who has the authority to decide: as a national Church, parliament, the government, the monarch personally; as an episcopal Church, the bishops? Or should the clergy in convocations (or, latterly, the General Synod, including representatives of the pious laity) take decisions? Anglican crises have always raised these twin problems of identity and authority. In the mid-eighteenth century — from the end of the 1730s and particularly in the 1740s — the Church of England faced another crisis. The Anglican bishops had to come to terms with the movement known as the ‘evangelical revival’. Principles had to be applied to a new situation. The bishops had to decide how to categorise the new societies (or would they become new churches?) which were springing up all over England.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , October 1990 , pp. 622 - 646
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73 Unitätsarchiv, R13.A24.67.

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78 Zinzendorf to Potter, 17 (?) Sept. 1746, Unitätsarchiv, R13.A11.12:A.

79 Zinzendorf to Potter, 21 Sept. 1746, Unitätsarchiv, R13.A11.12, 10: E; cf. Addison, , op. cit. 183–4Google Scholar (beginning), 178 (middle), conclusion omitted.

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84 Zinzendorf to Potter, 15 (?) Dec. 1746, Unitätsarchiv, R13.A11.15.

85 Cossart to Zinzendorf, 6 Dec. 1746, Unitätsarchiv, R13.A20.5.

86 Cossart to Zinzendorf, 10 Jan. 1747, Unitätsarchiv, R13.A20.8.

87 Ibid.

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89 Ingham to Zinzendorf, 30 July 1744, MCH, AB88.A3.14.34. This might be another reference to the plan, thought to have been made by the circle of Ingham's sister-in-law Lady Huntingdon, to have Whitefield consecrated a bishop when the prince of Wales succeeded. (See Watson, C. E., ‘Whitefield and Congregationalism’, Transactions of the Congregationalist History Society viii (1922), 171–80Google Scholar, 237–45; Rack, H. D., ‘Religious societies and the origins of Methodism’, this Journal xxxviii (1987), 582–95Google Scholar, at pp. 591–2.; Nuttall, G. F., ‘Howel Harris and “The Grand Table”: a note on religion and politics 1744–50’, this Journal xxxix (1988), 531–44Google Scholar, at pp. 543–4. However, a Moravian source also indicates that George II's remark that Whitefield should be ‘advanced to the Bench as the only means of putting an end to his preaching’ (Seymour, A. C. H., The Life and Times ofSelina Countess of Huntingdon, London 1839, i. 180)Google Scholar, was not only a joke, but a secondhand one: before May 1746 Gibson complained to the king about the trouble caused by Whitefield's preaching, whereupon the duke of Montagu, who was standing nearby, told the king he should make Whitefield a bishop and he would only preach once a year, General Synod, Zeist, 1746, session xvii, 23 May, Unitätsarchiv, R2.A19, p. 163.

90 Cossart to Zinzendorf, 8 Sept. 1747, Unitätsarchiv, R13.A20.23.

91 Synodal Conference, Herrnhut, 1750, session i, 16 Nov., Unitätsarchiv, R2.A29.2, p. 58.

92 Cf. n. 50.

93 J. Töltschig (dictated by J. Charlesworth) to L. Dober, 6 Dec. 1745, JRL, Eng. MSS 1076.15, fo. 7r.

94 Ingham to Cossart, 16 Oct. 1747, MCH, AB88.A3.14.37.

95 Ingham to Zinzendorf, 28 Oct./8 Nov. 1747, Unitätsarchiv, R13.A17.40.

96 Cossart to Zinzendorf, 12 Apr. 1748, Unitätsarchiv, R13.A20.28.

97 Unitätsarchiv, R13.A20.29: Cossart to Zinzendorf, 26 Apr. 1748 (n. st.).

98 Cossart to Zinzendorf, 14 June 1748, Unitätsarchiv, R13.A20.30.

99 Cossart to Zinzendorf, 12 July 1748, Unitätsarchiv, R13.A20.34.

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103 23 Apr., Unitätsarchiv, R13.A24.58; R13.A24.56.

104 General Synod, London, 1749, part 2, session ix, 29 Sept., Unitätsarchiv, R2.A26.4b, p. 111.

105 23 Apr., 3 May, Unitätsarchiv, R13.A24.58.

106 30 July 1749, JHD (MS headquarters diary, all dates new style).

107 J. von Watteville to ?, 24 May 1748, Unitätsarchiv, R13.A22a.11; Provincial Synod, 1748, session vii, 4/15 May, JRL, Eng. MSS 1054, p. 34; Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1349 (Seeker Papers), p. 165 (cf. Sykes, , Sheldon to Seeker, 135).Google Scholar

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111 23 Apr., Unitätsarchiv, R13.A24.58.

112 28 Apr., 5 May, JHD.

113 20 Apr., Unitätsarchiv, R13.A24.58; 6 May, JHD.

114 Reasons and Objections for and against the Privileges granted to the…Unitas Fratrum, London 1750, 14.

115 Lords Journals; Reasons and Objections, passim.

116 Booklist, Gentleman's Magazine, March 1749; Lords Journals.

117 Pinnington, J., ‘Moravian and Anglican: a new look at the circumstances surrounding the arrival of the Renewed Brethren in England’, Bulletin of the JRL lii (1969-1970), 200–17.Google Scholar The letter cited at 206 n. 1 as evidence for Seeker's likely view (Malelieu to Davisme, 31 May 1746, now Lambeth Palace Library, SP ix, fo. 120: E) did not come into Seeker's possession until his secretary purchased the papers of the anti-Moravian pamphleteer Henry Rimius from Bishop Lavington's executors. The same is true ofthat cited at 216 n. 3, which was written not in 1746 but as late as 1755, more than five years after the debates, J. R. Pittius, statement, 19 Jan. 1755, SP ix, fo. 41.

118 26 May 1749, JHD.

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