By W. R. Ward
This e-book marks an enormous improvement in our figuring out of the spiritual historical past of either Europe and North the USA through the first 1/2 the eighteenth century. It stories the early background of the Protestant revival hobbies from a pan-European, in addition to Anglo-American perspective, and indicates the interrelationships and hobbies one of the significant Protestant groups. it's a contribution to the background not just of spiritual trust and perform, but in addition to that of the successes and screw ups of eighteenth-century statecraft in facing difficulties of non secular pleasure and department in the course of an age of enlightenment. it truly is according to an unlimited diversity of archival assets and released scholarly paintings starting from jap Europe to the yankee colonies.
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Many of them had profited enormously by Catholic advance in terms of capital gains, but they had paid heavily in terms of income. They wanted no new Spanish adventures, and hoped to round off the Habsburgs' Central European holdings by advances in the South and South-East and the incorporation of Bavaria. Prepared to fight to keep out the French, they wanted their northern flank protected by agreements which allowed Saxony and Brandenburg to acquire crowns outside the Empire, and Hanover to acquire a ninth electoral title within it.
Yet all the time it feared it was itself succumbing to English mores. ' I sometimes fear we be sifted with Erastianism, from the head of the English church' lamented Robert Wodrow in 1709. In Ulster 'the wild Irishes [were] coming down and taking the leases our countrymen had, and swarming out in such numbers as very much threatens the British interest in that kingdom' ;62 while Moderatism implied assimilation to English ways, to the politics of patronage and manipulation perfected by Walpole. Reasonable men might prefer any fate to that.
6 8 It was not the case that the ecclesiastical machine did not care about this state of affairs; the great complaints came from within the machine itself. The Scots lament that 'the Lord seems in a great measure to have withdrawn from his servants, people and ordinances' (in this instance apparently through lack of gentry support) was almost universal; in New England Increase Mather saw 'sinfull security [as]... the great disease of the last times', and the Wiirttemberger church complained of every evil, spiritual, social and moral.
