1768 Colonial AMERICAN Boston IMPRINT Church CHAUNCY Episcopal ENGLISH Churches

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1768 Colonial AMERICAN Boston IMPRINT Church CHAUNCY Episcopal ENGLISH Churches:
$295.00

[Colonial American Imprint]:The Appeal to the public answered, in behalf of the non-Episcopal churches in America : containing remarks on what Dr. Thomas Bradbury Chandler has advanced, on the four following points. The original and nature of the Episcopal office. Reasons for sending bishops to America. The plan on which it is proposed to send them. And the objections against sending them obviated and refuted. Wherein the reasons for an American episcopate are shewn to be insufficient, and the objections against it in full force. By Charles Chauncy, D.D. and Pastor of the First Church in Boston.Chauncy, Charles. Boston : N.E. : Printed by Kneeland and Adams, in Milk-Street, for Thomas Leverett, in Corn-Hill, 1768.
Thomas Chandler was a Connecticut-born Episcopal priest whose 1767 \'Appeal to the Public\' was a major weapon in the Church of England\'s dispute with Chauncy and others who resisted the Anglican Church\'s establishment in America. \"The clergy of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania delegated him as a leading advocate of American episcopacy to prepare a plea for the sending of bishops to America, and in 1767 he published\" [DAB] his Appeal. Chauncy refutes it here. Chauncy was the most prominent American voice for the authenticity and validity of non-Episcopal ordination. One of his life\'s great struggles was opposing the notion that \"the established religion of England was that of its dependencies also. English bishops wrote as if Congregationalism were no religion at all.\" DAB. Religious separation paved the way, less than a decade later, for political separation and Revolution. MORE: Growing political tensions between the colonies and the crown in the 1760s were mirrored in the views held toward the Anglican church in America. Patriots saw those who were high in the church as harboring Loyalist tendencies, and viewed them with suspicion. Presbyterians and Congregationalists were also wary of the power of the Anglican church, and feared attempts to establish the dominance of the Church of England in America. In 1767, Thomas Bradbury Chandler, the rector of St. John\'s Church in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, called for the appointment of a resident bishop, and sparked a pamphlet war over the issue, of which Chauncy\'s objection was the most prominent and forceful reply. Bradbury would respond to Chauncy\'s work with two of his own, in 1769 and 1771. Bradbury and Chauncy inevitably found themselves on opposite political sides of the question of Independence, and Bradbury eventually left America for England in 1775.Later buckram, with gilt library titles to the spine. Various library treatments, with the title page nearly detached. Pages brittle with a few chips and such. Quite rare in its entirety, the original pagination calls for half title, which is lacking, otherwise all pages complete and present. Includes a bookseller\'s advert on the last leaf. Measures 7\" x 4\". A great opportunity to own an early American imprint. Good luck!