Chapter in English Church History
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Excerpt from Chapter in English Church History: Being the Minutes of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge for the Years 1698-1704: Together With Abstracts of Correspondents´ Letters During Part of the Same Period The direct antecedents of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge were no doubt the Religious Societies founded in London and Westminster about the year 1678, and the Societies for Reformation of Manners which originated about 1691. The former of these, as their historian, Dr. Woodward, records, were begun by a number of young men whose minds had been stirred by the awakening sermons of Dr. Horneck (of the Savoy), and of Dr. Smithies (curate of St. Giles, Cripplegate), and who thereupon began to meet weekly for religious conference and mutual edification. "The first design of those who joined in this religious fellowship looked no farther," as Dr. Woodward relates, "than the mutual assistance and consolation one of another in their Christian warfare," "but as their sense of the blessedness of religion and the value of immortal souls increased," they endeavoured to press upon their acquaintances "those divine arguments whereby themselves had been roused out of a state of carnal insensibleness. Soon after their establishment there were, it is stated, forty-two of these Religious Societies in London and Westminster alone, and similar associations were formed before long in the chief towns throughout the kingdom. The members of these Religious Societies were all zealously attached to the Church of England, and their rules and orders were drawn up in accordance with the Prayer-book. The Societies for the Reformation of Manners, on the other hand, were composed of Nonconformists as well as Churchmen, and confined themselves chiefly to putting the law into operation against "Prophaneness and Debauchery." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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