Item 234A Report of the Committee of the Lower House of Convocation, Appointed to Draw Up a Representation to Be Laid Before the Arch-Bishop and Bishops of the Province of Canterbury, Concerning Several Dangerous Positions and Doctrines Contained in the Bishop of Bangor's Preservative, and His Sermon Preach'd March 31, 1717
Important document of the Bangorian Controversy, instigated by Benjamin Hoadly (then Bishop of Bangor and chaplain to the King), which revolved around the issue of whether the Church had jurisdiction over temporal matters. The dual theological-political threat that Hoadly's sermon and his work "Preservative against the Principles and Practices of Non-Jurors" posed was, essentially, going too far in opposition to the non-juror issue at hand by arguing that the church should not exercise temporal authority, including by excommunication from the sacraments. Somewhat ironically because of this, Hoadly found himself in the favor of George I, who found himself aligning aligning with.....
