Excerpt from Church and State in England to the Death of Queen Anne His verdicts upon movements and characters, given with full knowledge and in trenchant words, must speak for themselves. It is deeply to be regretted that death has deprived us of Dr. Gwatkin's delineation of the men and the events of the eigh teenth and nineteenth centuries. It would have been impartial and philosophical, and would have inculcated the lesson, never more needed than by our own generation, that progress is divinely ordered to come through change, and that in the life of a national Church no phase can be final. The book, as it is printed, represents almost exactly Dr. Gwatkin's manuscript. A few dates that he had left blank have been filled in, a few obvious lapses of the pen have been corrected. Otherwise, everything stands as he left it. So far as it had gone, the volume was practically ready for publication, and it would have been presumptuous to supply omissions that were no doubt deliberate, or to modify the assertions and judgments of a scholar so distinguished as Dr. Gwatkin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.