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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. History Of The Diocese. A.d. I7I5-A. D. 1882. Bishop Potter -- Bangorian Controversy -- John Wesley and Methodism in Oxford--Succeeding Bishops--Bishop Lloyd --Bishop Bagot--Addition of Berks--Bishop Wilberforce --Addition of Bucks--Wilberforce College--Bishop Mackarness. A Period of fresh religious controversy was approaching at the time when Dr. John Potter succeeded to the bishopric of Oxford, in A.d. 1715. He was one of the queen's chaplains, and was supported by the influence of the Duke of Marlborough; but his varied and extensive learning was a better recommendation. An early work on Grecian Antiquities continued for more than a century to be a standard authority. His "Discourse on Church Government" long retained a high place, as containing an able exposition of the constitution, rights, and government, of the early Church, and a vindication of the principles of the Church of England in respect of this as in accordance with those of the first three centuries, and of the age succeeding to these. The edition of the works of Clement of Alexandria, which was published at Oxford in the same year in which he became bishop, is still the best and most complete. The danger which imperilled the soundness of doctrine within the Church at this time arose from the opinions which Dr. Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, had promulgated, and out of which the Bangorian controversy sprang. Bishop Hoadly published a work, entitled "A Preservative against the Principles and Practices of the Nonjurors," and preached his celebrated sermon before the king on the 31s! of March in A.d. 1717, en "the Nature of the Kingdom of the Church of Christ." l In these he exhibits the type of a latitudinarian prelate. And in common with other opponents Bishop...