THE STATE IN ITS RELATIONS WITH THE CHURCH. BY W. E. GLADSTONE, Esq., LATE STUDENT OF CHRISTCHURCH, AND M.P. FOR NEWARK. Διόπερ οἱ παλαιοὶ δοκοῦσί μοι τὰς περὶ θεῶν ἐννοίας, καὶ τὰς περὶ τῶν ἐν "Αδου διαλήψεις οὐκ εἰκῆ καὶ ὡς ἔτυχεν εἰς τὰ πλήθη παρεισαγαγεῖν· πολὺ δὲ μᾶλλον οἱ νῦν εἰκῆ καὶ ἀλόγως ἐκβάλλειν αὐτά.—Polyb. VI. 56. TRANSFERRED TO FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. WISCON LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET; AND HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY. MDCCCXLI. THE SUBSISTING CONNECTION BETWEEN THE STATE OF THE UNITED SECTION I. 1. THUS far I have pursued the path of abstract reasoning, and endeavoured to examine some of the moral laws of the connection between the Church and the State, with the aid of occasional illustrations from events. I now come to follow, with more of detail, and with an attempt at method, the line of historical development; and by exhibiting, at least in a rude sketch, the actual course of the principle of national religion, since it has approached to its critical periods, in our own country, to pave that way which ought to join the region of theory with the arena of practical life. 2. First, then, let us consider briefly the actual form of the connection between the Church and the State, as it has subsisted, historically, in the English constitution-a connection which, I believe, has continued essentially the same, amidst the shocks and all the secondary changes which the period of twelve cen VOL. II. B |