1808 EVIL DANGER LUKEWARMNESS RELIGION Edmund Gibson BISHOP LONDON England

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1808 EVIL DANGER LUKEWARMNESS RELIGION Edmund Gibson BISHOP LONDON England :
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THE EVIL AND DANGER OF LUKEWARMNESS IN RELIGION

Being the First Part of the Late Bishop of London, Dr. Gibson\'s Fourth Pastoral Letter

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London, England: Rivington, 1808.

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Early religious title from the Bishop of London, Edmund Gibson.

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Edmund GibsonPC(1669 – 6 September 1748) was aBritishdivinewho served asBishop of LincolnandBishop of London, jurist, andantiquary.

Early life and career[edit]

He was born inBampton,Westmorland. In 1686 he was entered a scholar atQueen\'s College, Oxford. Shortly afterThomas Tenison\'s elevation to thesee of Canterburyin 1694 Gibson was appointed chaplain and librarian to the archbishop, and in 1703 and 1710 respectively he became rector ofLambethandarchdeacon of Surrey.

Episcopal career[edit]

In 1716 Gibson was presented to thesee of Lincoln, whence he was in 1723 translated toLondon. For twenty-five years he exercised influence, being consulted bySir Robert Walpoleon ecclesiastical affairs.

While a conservative in church politics, and opposed toMethodism, he was no persecutor, and indeed broke with Walpole on the Quakers\' Relief Bill of 1736. He exercised oversight over the morals of his diocese; and his denunciation of the masquerades which were popular at court finally lost him the royal favour. He served as a founding governor of a charity called theFoundling Hospital. His endorsement can be seen as significant since the Foundling Hospital, created byroyal charter, was the nation\'s first non-church initiated institution to target this sort of social ill.

Gibson died in 1748, and is buried atAll Saints Church, Fulham, London.

Works[edit]Funerary monument, All Saints, Fulham, London

In 1692 Gibson published an edition of theSaxon Chroniclewith aLatintranslation, indices and notes, and later a similar translation of the Lindsey Chronicle. These were followed in 1693 by an annotated edition of theDe institutione oratoriaofQuintilian, and in 1695 by a translation ofWilliam Camden\'sBritannia, with additions and improvements, for which he recruited a team of antiquaries includingEdward Lhuyd, William Lloyd and John Smith.

In the discussions which arose during the reigns ofWilliamandAnnerelative to the rights and privileges of theConvocation, Gibson took a very active part, and in a series of pamphlets warmly argued for the right of the archbishop to continue or prorogue even the lower house of that assembly.

The controversy suggested to him the idea of those researches which resulted in theCodex juris ecclesiastici Anglicani, published in two volumes folio in 1713, a work which discusses more learnedly and comprehensively than any other the legal rights and duties of the English clergy, and the constitution, canons and articles of the English Church. His substantial collection of pamphlets on which his research is based are house atLambeth Palace Library(where he began his clerical career as Librarian), as part of theSion CollegeCollection.[1]

Among the literary efforts of his later years the principal were a series ofPastoral Lettersin defence of the gospel revelation, against lukewarmness and enthusiasm, and on various topics of the day; also thePreservative against Popery, in 3 vols. folio (1738), a compilation of numerous controversial writings of eminent Anglican divines, dating chiefly from the period ofJames II.

A second edition of theCodex juris, revised and improved, with large additions by the author, was published at Oxford in 1761. Besides the works already mentioned, Gibson published a number of Sermons, and other works of a religious and devotional kind. TheVita Thomae Bodleiiwith theHistoria Bibliothecae Bodleianaein theCatalogi librorum manuscriptorum(Oxford, 1697), and theReliquiae Spelmannianae(Oxford, 1698), are also from his pen.

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