We have seen such amazing instances of his lordship's CONTRADICTIONS, as not to be surprised at the boldest of them. Sometimes, when rapt in a fit of rhetoric, he does, by his contradictions, what the man in the play did by his ingratitude, he strives to cover the monstrous bulk of them, by a proportionable size of words*; sometimes again, to shew his utter contempt of the public, he chuses to follow the advice there given; to let them go naked, whereby men would see them the better. But, when he masks his double face, the FALSIFICATION of the theory of the Alliance always affords him the best play. He constantly takes it for granted, or avouches it for a fact, throughout his whole argument against the book, that the author contends for and maintains the independency of the church on the state, under an establishment. This brings CONSTANTINE's establishment, as he has represented it, and the establishment on the principles of the ALLIANCE, pretty much to the same thing; so that the mischiefs ascribed to one may be safely transferred to the other. And here, Reader, in conclusion, the odd fortune of this book of the ALLIANCE is worth thy notice. It had been written against by many nameless scribblers, before his lordship: and had their force been equal to their fury, its innocence had been no protection to it. *Their daggers hacked one another †, not in the sides of my system, but in the unfeeling fronts of the assassins themselves. Three capital crimes had been imputed to it. One, that it established an imperium in imperio; another, that it made the church a creature of the civil magistrate; and a third, that it made the civil magistrate a creature of the church: while one shameless fellow, as I remember, in a thing he called ↑ Shakespeare. *Timon of Athens. a Com a Comment on the Alliance, charged it with all these three crimes at once: so that his lordship, whose care is for the STATE, and my dissenting adversaries, who are as anxious for the CHURCH, will come in but for shares in the full merit of that illustrious Commentator. INDEX TO THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE. ACTIONS, evil, from what consideration punished by civil laws P. 44 Alliance between Church and State, Preface to the edition in 1736 p. iii Dedication to the Earl of Chesterfield of thể edition of 1748 Advertisement to the edition of 1766 P. vii p. xii M. de Silhouette's Letter to Cardinal Fleury, sent with a translation of the Alliance, what the Church receives from the State by the Alliance pp. 108. 145foederated, and incorporated union distin guished p. 160 - p. 164 when carried into execution in England p. 166 the objection how it may be framed between two societies composed of the same individuals, removed the reality of the convention argued p. 208 a security for the behaviour of individuals due to both : p. 241 Alliance between Church and State; the occasion of writing P. 374 Alliances and establishments, examination of Lord Boling- p. 255 Areopagus, court of, its jurisdiction explained - - P. 59 P. 255 p. 276 Athens, shewn to have a test-law to secure an established B. p. 278 Bacchus, the oath taken by the priestesses of, from De- P. 33 Bishops, in what quality they enjoy seats in Parlia Enquiry into their parliamentary peerage, p. 133 their peerage not affected by the privileges they - P. 134 p. 139 - P. 150 and Presbyters, the distinction between, according to canon law Bolingbroke, Lord, his concession in favour of the church answer to his cavils against Alliance Bolingbroke, Lord; examination of his notions, &c. p. 325 concerning spiritual courts the independency of the church P. 339 p. 350 of the Alliance between religious and civil so p. 363 examination of his account of the establishment of Christianity under Constantine Bristol, Earl of, his speech in favour of a test-law, temp. Car. I. p. 245 C. Caliphs, Saracen, contrasted with the Roman Pontiffs, p. 84 Canon law, the main views of, explained p. 229 Carte, remarks on the principles manifested in his History of England p. 229 p..96 Charles I. his idea of church government Chesterfield, Philip Earl of, Dedication of the Alliance between Church and State to him, edit. 1748 p. vii Christ, his kingdom, in what respect not of this p. 201 Christian liberty, the nature of, explained the religion best calculated for a beneficial alliance with the civil magistrate proved to enforce the observance of civil laws, and social duties, in refutation of Mr. Rousseau's assertion to the contrary Church, its encroachments on the civil power, how main |